köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic мьгла (mĭgla), from Proto-Slavic *mьgla, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *míglāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰleh₂ (“mist, cloud”). Compare Polish mgła (“fog”).
köken: Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), whence het (“hat”). Perhaps cognate with Latin cassis (“helmet”).
darkness, gloom (also in plural) · the darkness of hell, hell or a particular division of hell · the obscuration of the sun or moon in eclipses, attributed to Rahu
çekim: çoğul तमां॑सि · tamlayan तम॑सः
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *temH- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *témHos Proto-Indo-Iranian *támHas Sanskrit तमस् From Proto-Indo-Iranian *támHas, from Proto-Indo-European *témHos (“darkness”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬆𐬨𐬀𐬵 (təmah), Persian تم (tam, “cataract”), Lithuanian tamsà (“darkness”), Latin tenebra (“darkness”).
From a bad lecture of an 18th century author by a 19th century lexicographer; later incorporated into several 19th and 20th century dictionaries, and subsequently acquiring some minor literary use.