çekim: geçmiş flatté · ortaç flatté · şimdiki flatte · ulaç flattant
köken: Inherited from Middle French flatter (“to flatter, to caress with the flat of the hand”), from Old French flater (“to deceive by concealing the truth, to stroke with the palm of the hand”), from Frankish *flat (“palm, flat of the hand”), from Proto-Germanic *flatą, *flatō (“palm, sole”), *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *plÁt-, *pele-, *plet-, *plāk- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with…
çekim: geçmiş льсти́вший · ortaç льсти́вший · şimdiki льсти́т · ulaç льстя́щий
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic льстити (lĭstiti) (also лестити (lestiti)), from Proto-Slavic *lьstiti, derived as if from *lьstь (whence лесть (lestʹ)) + -ить (-itʹ).
köken: From Old Norse lauðr, from Proto-Germanic *lauþrą, from Proto-Indo-European *lówh₃trom (“that which is used for washing”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash, bathe”).
to flatter, compliment, fawn, (colloquially) to butter up, soft-soap, suck up to · to coax, cajole, beguile · to toady to, truckle to, carry favor with, (colloquially) to brownnose, kiss/lick sb's ass/boots
çekim: geçmiş imarrellut · şimdiki imartelee · ulaç imarteleva
köken: Verbal derivation from מַחְמָאָה (makhma'á), itself derived from Psalms he:T:22, with translation of the New American Standard Bible: "His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war".
to fawn upon · to flatter or court · to make obeisance to
çekim: ortaç adūlātus · şimdiki adūlātur · ulaç adūlāns
köken: The first component is evidently ad- (“to, toward”); the second one, however, has an obscure origin. It has been conjectured to come from an unattested *ūlos (“tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”), whence English wool (via Proto-Germanic) and velvet (via a Latin diminutive). Compare Lithuanian valai (“horsetail hair”) and Sanskrit वाल (vā́la, “tail of an animal; tail hair;…