köken: From Arabic مَقَال (maqāl), denoting a literary genre of a short and morally instructive bit. Cognate with Tatar мәкаль (mäqäl), Kazakh мақал (maqal), Kyrgyz макал (makal), Uzbek maqol, Uyghur ماقال (maqal, “proverb, adage”), etc.
köken: Borrowed from French aphorisme, from Middle French aphorisme, from Late Latin aphorismus, from Ancient Greek ἀφορισμός (aphorismós). First attested in 1534.
köken: A later variant of adā̆giō, ostensibly from ad- (“toward, to”) + aiō (“say”), but due to sporadic attestation and the word-internal a might not be inherited and rather formed to adigō (“drive, hurl, compel”), from ad- (“toward, to”) + agō (“do, make”). The word-internal a may be either by the same vowel harmony as in alacer, calamitās, segetis, or else means the vowel is long - cf. indāgō,…
Etimoloji
Borrowed from Classical Persian مثل (masal), from Arabic مَثَل (maṯal).