köken: From Middle High German klāwe, from Old High German klāwa, from Proto-Germanic *klēwō. Immediately cognate with Luxembourgish Klo, Westphalian Low German Klao(we), West Frisian klei, and possibly Dutch klauw. Also related with English claw (from Proto-Germanic *klawō) and Danish klo (from *klōwō).
köken: Inherited from Middle French griffe, either deverbal from griffer, which see, or through an unattested Old French noun from Old High German grif, from Proto-Germanic *gripiz.
coup de griffe
Les pattes de cet animal sont armées de griffes.
Il a beau n’avoir pas mis son nom à cet ouvrage, il y a mis sa griffe.
çekim: geçmiş arañé · ortaç arañado · şimdiki araña
köken: Uncertain. Possibly derived from arar (“to plough”), from Latin arāre, with the sense taken from that of making shallow furrows or grooves. Alternatively, linked to araña (“spider”) from Latin arānea, though a semantic link is difficult; perhaps the meaning stemmed from the spider being an aggressive animal, to that of fighting or quarreling, and later a secondary sense of "scratch" developed as…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keng- Persian چنگ Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Compare English hook; also related to Old Armenian ճանկ (čank), Middle Georgian ჭანგი (č̣angi), Iranian borrowings.
مطربا در بزم ما امشب منه از چنگ چنگ ای سلیمی باده نوش و دیده بر دیدار دار
köken: Possibly from garfa (“animal's claw”), from Andalusian Arabic جَارْفَا (gārfā, “handful”), from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”), with influence from garfio (“hook”). Or, possibly from Vulgar Latin *garra, from Gaulish *garrā (“leg”) (compare Breton gar, Old Irish gairri (“calves”)), from Proto-Celtic *garros; see Cornish garr.
köken: From Byzantine Greek νύχιν (núkhin), inherited from Ancient Greek ὀνύχιον (onúkhion), diminutive of ὄνυξ (ónux), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃negʰ-.
köken: First attested in the Gugeupbang eonhae (救急方諺解 / 구급방언해), 1466, as Middle Korean 밠톱 (Yale: pal-s-thwop). From 발 (bal) + 톱 (top, also found in 손톱 (sontop, “fingernail”)).
to scratch (to rub a surface with a sharp object) · to scratch (to cause damage to some surface, e.g. one's skin, by sliding something over it) · to scratch, to irritate (to cause or induce displeasure or irritation)
çekim: geçmiş drapano · şimdiki drapie
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *der-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *dírāˀtei Proto-Slavic *dьrati Proto-Slavic *-pati Proto-Slavic *drāpàti Old Polish drapać Polish drapać Inherited from Old Polish drapać.
köken: From *glara, possibly from German Kralle, following metathesis, or alternatively possibly a substratum word; another theory is that it perhaps derives from a hypothetical intermediate *înghiare, from a Vulgar Latin root *unglaris < *ungularis, from Latin ungula.
to scratch, claw (to make a mark on a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature, with nails, claws)
çekim: geçmiş karmoltak
köken: From an otherwise unattested stem + -ol (frequentative verb-forming suffix).
aile: karmolás, karom, megkarmol, összekarmol
Etimoloji
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नख (nakha). Doublet of नाख़ून (nāxūn). Cognate with Classical Persian ناخُن, Central Kurdish نینۆک (nînok), Northern Kurdish neynok, Baluchi ناہن (náhun) / ناکن (nákun), Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux), Latin unguis, Old Armenian եղունգն (ełungn) and English nail.