times (indicating multiplication of two numbers) · alternative form of einmal (“sometime, ever, once”) · well, by the way (serving to introduce new information)
çekim: çoğul Male · tamlayan Males
köken: From the noun Mal (“time”). Partly shortened from einmal, which is also derived from the noun.
aile: Malrechnung, schon mal
sechs mal sieben ist zweiundvierzig
Wenn du in Köln bist, musst du mal bei deiner Tante anrufen.
köken: Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬖𐬀 (daγa, “brand; scar, spot”), Sanskrit दाह (dāha, “burning, heat”). Related to Middle Persian [script needed] (dcytn' /dazīdan/, “to burn”), from Proto-Iranian *dáǰatī, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰáǰʰati, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti.
köken: Continues Proto-Slavic *bělěgъ, ultimately of Oghur origin, from Proto-Turkic *bel- (“to denote”). Apparently, the Bulgarian term was reanalyzed to fit the Slavic morphology as if from Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”) + -ег (-eg). Cognate with Hungarian bélyeg (“post mark”), Chuvash палӑк (palăk, “sign, symbol”), Kazakh белгі (belgı, “mark, sign”). Akin to the nickname Бѣлгоунъ (Bělgunŭ) of tzar Ivan…