pack (group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together)
çekim: çoğul jaurías
köken: Uncertain. Possibly derived from Arabic حَُرِيَ (ḥauriya, “kind of dance”), from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”). Or, possibly onomatopoeic.
a flock (group of animals (or people, by extension, often emphasizing lack of independence or the like)) · a murder (of crows) · a muster (of peafowl)
çekim: çoğul flockar · tamlayan flocks
köken: From Old Swedish flokker, flukker, from Old Norse flokkr, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz. Cognate with Faroese flokkur, Icelandic flokkur, Norwegian flokk, and Danish flok.
group of (land) animals, herd · band (of coyotes) · business (of ferrets)
çekim: çoğul laumat · tamlayan lauman
köken: From Proto-Finnic *lauma, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz. No cognates in other Finnic languages are known (other than a marginal Livvi borrowing from Finnish).
köken: Standardized colloquial reflex of an earlier глотни́ца (glotníca) (dated), spread into the standard language from a Western dialect. Equivalent to гло́та (glóta, “mixture, crowd”) (dialectal) + -ница (-nica).
Ця́ла нощ глу́тница въ́лци ви и бро́ди по плани́нските хре́бети.
herd; flock; school; swarm (group of animal together, especially of the same kind)
köken: Borrowed from Malay kawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban (“companion, member of a group (of animals or people); friend”). Doublet of kaban.