recruit · a soldier of the lowest rank in the Swiss and Austrian armed forces, similar to a private
çekim: çoğul Rekruten · tamlayan Rekruten
eş: Fuchs, Hax, Schulterglatze
köken: Borrowed from Middle French recrute (attested 1592), from recreue (“supplement”), recrue (“supplies; supplemental soldiers”) (attested 1550), substantivized past participle of Old French recroistre (“to grow again, to acquire offspring, to replace”), from Latin recrēscere (“to grow (out) again”).
köken: Borrowed from English recruit, from French recruter; see there for more. Attested since at least 1919 in Hari Kosh: A Sanskrit-Hindi and Hindi-Sanskrit Dictionary.
recruit · apprentice (one that is young in age) · beginner, novice, tyro, neophyte, freshman, greenhorn
çekim: çoğul tīrōnēs · tamlayan tīrōnis
köken: Unknown. Ostler 2007 suggests a borrowing from an unattested Etruscan term; García-Hernández 2025 proposes a far-fetched derivation from Latin triō, with the original meaning of "young ox", that later changed into its primary meaning, "novice".