burdock · a bur (a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing) · a clingy person
çekim: çoğul Kletten · tamlayan Kletten
eş: Klettfrucht
köken: From Middle High German klette, from Old High German kletta f, kletto m, from Proto-Germanic *klīþô, from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”), from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Cognate with Old Saxon kledda f, kleddo m and Middle Low German klette. Related to klettern (“to climb”) and Kleid (“dress”), also Middle Dutch clisse, Dutch klis, Old English cliþe, clāte and English…
burdock, common name of various plants with sticky shoots or seeds · bur, (idiomatic): beggar's lice, hitchhiker, sticker, sticker bur, (although grammatically incorrect, also written as): burr · an unwelcome person who attaches themselves to someone else
burdock (Arctium lappa) · a penis; a cock; a stalk
köken: Certainly from Middle Chinese 牛蒡 (MC ngjuw pangX), but with a shift from the expected go-on reading of *guhō (or with rendaku as *gubō); compare Korean 우엉 (ueong). First cited to the Iroha Jiruishō (1177-1181).
köken: Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 우방 (牛蒡, ubang, “burdock”). First attested in 1489 as Middle Korean 우ᅌᅯᇰ〯 (Yale: wuweng), from unattested intermediary form *우ᄫᅯᇰ (Yale: *wuWeng).
köken: Origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *broťь, reconstructed from the plural brusturi, compare ciucure, fagure. Another theory is a derivation of Latin ustulāre (cf. ustura). It has been attempted to link it to a Germanic (Gepid) word *brustilô (“silk”), but this is unlikely. Finally, it may be linked to a Ladin word bruscandol (“hops”) found in the local speech of Comelico in northeastern…
köken: Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Ottoman Turkish بالدران (baldıran). See German Baldrian for more.
köken: Unknown, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”) – to which labium and lambō –, Proto-Slavic *lopěnъ (“burdock”) is also suggestive.
köken: From Proto-Slavic *rěpьjь. Equivalent to реп (rep, “bur”) (dialectal) + -ей (-ej). Dialectally also known as Bulgarian ре́пел (répel), рьо́пель (rjópelʹ), ре́пен (répen) (possibly from Proto-Slavic *rěpьlь, *rěpělь).
burdock (plant of the genus Arctium) · burr, bur (seed pod of a burdock that sticks in fur or clothing)
çekim: çoğul takjad · tamlayan takja
köken: From Proto-Finnic *takijas, ultimately from Proto-Baltic *dagijas (“burdock”) (compare modern Latvian dadzis and Lithuanian dagys). Cognate with Finnish takiainen, Votic and Ingrian takkiain, Ludian takkiaińe, Livvi takkis- (in the compound takkisheinü (“burdock”)) and Veps takkiž. The word has folk-etymologically merged with the stem in taki-sta/ma (“to prevent”) (compare the dialectal…