whore (prostitute or sexually unreserved woman) · girl; lass
çekim: çoğul Dirnen · tamlayan Dirnen
köken: From Middle High German dierne (“girl; servant”), from Old High German diorna, thiorna (“girl; servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *þewernā. Doublet of Deern. The sense “prostitute” developed from the use for a “girl from the lower classes”. It is first attested in the 15th century.
Der, nach dem Schauspiel, hofft ein Kartenspiel, / Der eine wilde Nacht an einer Dirne Busen.
köken: Inherited from Middle French chose, from Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.
aile: à peu de choses près, autre chose, avant toutes choses, c'est la moindre des choses, chose du passé, chose jugée, chose promise, chose due, chose-bine, chosifier, chosisme
a whore (prostitute) · a whore (promiscuous person, slut) · a whore (person offering themselves in some non-sexual capacity in a way perceived as indicating a lack of self-respect)
çekim: çoğul horor · tamlayan horas
köken: From Old Swedish hōra, from Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear, loved”). Compare Danish hore, English whore, Dutch hoer, German Hure. Doublet of kär.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀭𑀡𑁆𑀟 (raṇḍa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-) without cluster simplification, from Sanskrit रण्ड (raṇḍa). Related to रांड (rāṇḍ, “widow, prostitute”).
köken: From lupus (“wolf”) + -a (feminine suffix). The sense “prostitute” is either a comparison of the prostitutes' predation on men to the wolf's rapacity, as also in Isidore's (often fanciful) opinion, or a reference to the she-wolf's supposed uncleanliness and promiscuity (often culturally conflated), paralleled in English bitch.