eş: Leu, König der Wüste, Wüstenkönig, König der Tiere, Nobel
köken: From Middle High German lewe, löuwe, lauwe, from Old High German lewo, lēo, from Proto-West Germanic *lewo, *lēwo (“lion”). The spelling -ew- in Middle High German generally represents a diphthong [øy̯(w)], and accordingly the expected form in Modern German is Leu(e) (cf. freuen). The form Löwe with a monophthong and consonantal -w- is most readily explained from a long-vowel variant lēwe, which…
lion · faucet, tap · tiger (sometimes also applied to the leopard)
çekim: çoğul شیرها
köken: From Middle Persian 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr /šagr, šēr/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”). Etymology 1, noun sense 2 is from the fact that the first taps in Iran looked like lion heads.
aile: تولهشیر, شیر دریایی, شیر شدن, شیر و خورشید, شیر کردن, شیر کوهی, شیر یا خط, شیرافکن, شیراوژن, شیردار
چون رسد آن جا ببیند گرگ و شیر عمر ضایع راه دور و روز دیر
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese leon (“lion”), from Latin leōnem (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Doublet of leu. Cognate with Galician and Spanish león among others.
form of λιοντάρι (liontári) (in set phrases and learned terms) · brave man · for the constellation and the given name, see Λέων (Léon)
çekim: çoğul λέοντες · tamlayan λέοντος
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn) from the accusative singular τὸν (tòn) λέοντα (léonta). Also see λέοντας m (léontas), λιόντας m (lióntas), λεοντάρι n (leontári) & λιοντάρι n (liontári).
köken: From jalo (“(dialectal) large; (standard) noble”) + peura (“deer”); one of the many words first known to have been written down by Mikael Agricola when translating the New Testament into Finnish in the 16th century. The word was originally used of elks (moose) or other similar animals. The semantic shift may be motivated by astrology; the constellation Leo may have been identified as an elk in…
Teidän vastustajanne, perkele, käy ympäri niinkuin kiljuva jalopeura, etsien, kenen hän saisi niellä
köken: Inherited from Old Czech lev, from Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from a Germanic source (possibly Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰 (laiwa)). Can ultimately be traced back to Latin leō, which comes from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), a word that is possibly a Semitic or an Akkadian borrowing.
lion · leu (Romanian and Moldovan unit of currency)
çekim: çoğul lei · tamlayan leului
köken: Either inherited or a later learned borrowing from Latin leō (“lion”) (around the 17th century), itself from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). All the other Romance cognates were derived from the accusative form leōnem or genitive leōnis (and some were borrowings themselves). Cf. also lăun and Lăune(le) (“a river in Romania”), as well as leoaie. For the name of the currency, it was probably based on the…
aile: leoaică, leoaie
Moneda națională este leul, iar subdiviziunea acestuia, banul.