bloodhound · someone skilled in finding people; skilled or persistent tracker or stalker · persecutor, tenaciously cruel person
çekim: çoğul bloedhonden
köken: From bloed (“blood”) + hond (“dog, hound”). The use for a scenthound and the figurative senses (16th c.) are native; compare German Bluthund, Middle Low German blôthunt. The use for the specific breed (late 19th c.) after English bloodhound.
hound (a small to medium-sized hunting dog with strong legs, drooping ears, and a relatively short, pointed tail) · gumshoe, sleuthhound, bloodhound (a police detective)
çekim: çoğul kopók
köken: From the kop variant of kap (“to seize, grab”) + -ó (present-participle suffix). The figurative sense developed metaphorically based on the original sense. First attested in c. 1422 Alternatively, borrowed from Proto-Turkic *köpek (“dog”), for which compare Russian кобе́ль (kobélʹ, “male dog”).