asparagus (any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers) · asparagus (the young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable) · beanpole (tall, thin person)
çekim: çoğul asperges
eş: asperge officinale
köken: Inherited from Latin asparagus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos).
to whistle · to make any similar sound, as a passing bullet · to referee
çekim: geçmiş floten · ortaç gefloten · şimdiki fluit · ulaç fluitend
köken: From Middle Dutch floyten. Equivalent to fluit + -en. Originally a weak verb, which developed strong forms by analogy with sluiten etc. Weak forms died out in the standard language over the 19th century.
çekim: geçmiş σφύριξα · ortaç έχοντας σφυρίξει · şimdiki σφυρίζει · ulaç σφυρίζοντας
köken: From Byzantine Greek σφυρίζω (sphurízō), from Ancient Greek σῡρίζω (sūrízō, “play the syrinx; make a whistling sound”), from σῦρῐγξ (sûrĭnx, “quill, flute, syrinx, windpipe”) + -ίζω (-ízō, “verbal suffix”), with epenthesis of an -φ- (-f-), possibly under the influence of Hellenistic σφῠρίον (sphŭríon, “mallet”). Compare older Ancient Greek σίζω (sízō).
köken: Fuller form in dialectal fluieră, of uncertain or disputed origin; possibly from Latin flātūrālis (adj.) ‘blowing’, from flātūra ‘act of blowing’. Other theories suggest a Vulgar Latin root *flibula, from fibula (compare sense of flute in Latin tibia), or a derivative of the related verb fluiera, or a substratum (substrate) word. Alternatively, it may be of originally imitative origin. Compare…