to cut back something that grows · to clip, prune (a hedge) · to cut, shave, trim (hair)
çekim: geçmiş schor · ortaç geschoren · şimdiki schert · ulaç scherend
eş: kahlschneiden, entfleischen
köken: From Middle High German schërn, from Old High German skeran, from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, West Frisian skarre, English shear, Danish skære.
aile: abscheren, glattscheren, kahlscheren, Scherblatt, Schere, Scherklinge, Scherkopf, Schermesser, Schur, über einen Kamm scheren
Wenn Schafe nicht geschoren werden, können sie sich vor lauter Wolle nicht mehr bewegen.
Bei dem Vertrag haben sie uns ganz schön geschoren.
köken: From Late Latin cīsōria, plural of cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), ultimately from caedere (“cut”). Related to English scissors. Possibly influenced Italian cesello.
to shave (reflexive pronouns are used for self-directed actions) · to shear
çekim: geçmiş schoren · ortaç geschoren · şimdiki scheert · ulaç scherend
köken: From Middle Dutch schēren, from Old Dutch skeran, from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
aile: afscheren, bijscheren, kaalscheren, over een kam scheren, scheerapparaat, scheermes, scheerschuim, scheerzeep, wegscheren
hij scheert zich nu
de arts scheerde de huid rond de wond van de patiënt
to shear (to remove the fleece from a sheep) · to crop (to cut hair short) · to trim or cut a pet's hair (as part of pet grooming)
çekim: geçmiş tosei · ortaç tosado · şimdiki tosa
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese tosar, from Vulgar Latin *tōnsāre, frequentative verb of Latin tondeō, through its past participle, tōnsus. Compare Italian tosare.
çekim: geçmiş κούρεψα · ortaç έχοντας κουρέψει · şimdiki κουρεύει · ulaç κουρεύοντας
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek κουρεύω, from the mediopassive Hellenistic Koine Greek κουρεύομαι (koureúomai, “cut hair when entering monastery”)
to cut (grass, hair or something similar) with a sharp tool; to clip, to crop, to cut, to shear, to mow, to prune, to trim · to reap, to crop, to harvest
to shear, to cut, to clip, to trim · to fleece · to shear oneself, to cut one's own hair
çekim: geçmiş strzyżono · şimdiki strzyże
eş: podstrzygać
köken: Inherited from Old Polish strzyc, from Proto-Slavic *striťi (stem *strig-), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, shear”). Doublet of strajkować (“to strike”) and strychować (“to graze, to level, to line, to separate, to shell”).
to sever using a sharp object; to cut, snip, slit, trim, clip, shear, etc. · to intersect
köken: From Proto-Vietic *kac, from Proto-Austroasiatic *kacʔ (“to pluck; to harvest”). Cognate with Muong Bi cách, Pacoh kéiq (“to pick, to pluck”), Ngeq kɛc, Khmer កាច់ (kac, “to break, to snap”), Bahnar kĕch (“to harvest”), Pnar khait (“to pick”), Kensiu kec. Doublet of gặt (“to harvest”) through a prefixed form. Unrelated to Chinese 割 (OC *Cə-kˤat) (SV: cát), although the two are sometimes…