halo (circular band of coloured light, visible around the Sun or Moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere)
çekim: çoğul Halos · tamlayan Halos
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin halo, from accusative of Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “disk of the sun or moon; ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor with its surrounding threshold; disk of a shield”).
Halo (atmospheric phenomenon) · Similar visual effect resulting from undesirable, roughly circular spots on an imperfectly developed photograph
çekim: çoğul halos
köken: From Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “disk of the sun or moon, ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor; disk of a shield”), itself of unknown origin.
köken: From Latin halōs, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs); given an n-stem ending as if the Latin term were *halō, accusative *halōnem. Cognate with Sicilian aluni.
aureole, glory, halo, nimbus (luminous disc around the heads of saints in sacred art) · aureole, halo, nimbus (light circle around some sources of light) · aureole (hair resembling a halo around the heads of saints)
çekim: çoğul aureole · tamlayan aureoli
eş: nimb, halo
köken: Etymology tree Medieval Latin aureola corōnalbor. Polish aureola Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin aureola corōna.
köken: Seemingly from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”) with an *-n- infix, but the formal details are disputed. Possibly contaminated either by a zero-grade variant *imbus or by the related word imber (“rain”), if not borrowed from another Indo-European language. Cognates include Latin nebula, Proto-Slavic *nebo (“heaven, sky”), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas, “sky”) and Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos,…