to skin (an animal) · to rob, despoil, rip off · to count (votes); to go through (mail); to peruse, examine in detail
çekim: geçmiş dépouillé · ortaç dépouillé · şimdiki dépouille · ulaç dépouillant
köken: Inherited from Middle French dépouiller, despouiller, from Old French despoillier, from Latin dēspoliāre. Compare Catalan despullar, Romanian despuia.
köken: Hindi verb set छिलना (chilnā) छीलना (chīlnā) छिलाना (chilānā) छिलवाना (chilvānā) Inherited from Old Hindi छीलना (chīlanā), from a verbal derivative of Prakrit छिल्लिअ (chillia, “torn, a hole”), whence this verb's past participle छीला (chīlā). The Prakrit term is from or related to Sanskrit छिद्र (chidra, “torn”), whence Hindi छिद्र (chidra, “hole”), छीदा (chīdā, “pierced”), and छेदना (chednā, “to…
to skin, flay, fleece (remove the skin of an animal) · to fleece (con or trick (someone) out of money) · to beat, conquer, overcome, trounce (defeat a competitor by a very large margin)
çekim: geçmiş nylkenyt · şimdiki nylkee · ulaç nylkevä
köken: From Proto-Finnic *nülkedäk, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńülke-. Cognate with Erzya нельгемс (neľgems, “to take away”).
çekim: geçmiş belit · ortaç belit · şimdiki belește
köken: Probably from Latin vellere, with a change in conjugation. Traditionally, it was usually thought to be from Slavic bĕliti (“to whiten”); however, this presents a problem with semantics and there is already another word in Romanian derived from this source, bili, that preserved the original meaning. Compare also Aromanian bilescu.
to flay · to skin · to fleece (con or trick out of money)
çekim: geçmiş esfolei · ortaç esfolado · şimdiki esfola
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese esfolar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). From es- (“ex-”) + fol (“hide, skin, bag”) + -ar. Cognate with Portuguese esfolar and Asturian esfollar.
aile: esfolador, esfoladura, esfolagatos
Que lle tomaran mays hun esqeiro et hun coytello desfollar e huun pente e hua chaue, que jurou que valía todo XXV mrs
—Xantar, xantaredes vosoutros, que tedes con que; pois a min xa me tedes esfolado — dixo polo baixo o labrego, saíndo da escribanía.