köken: From Middle High German vledermūs, from Old High German fledarmūs, from *fledara (“wing”) + mūs (“mouse”). Displaced older mūstro (“bat”), found also in the combination form fledaremūstro/fledarmūstro.
bat (a small flying mammal of the order Chiroptera) · a charge depicting the animal of the same name
çekim: çoğul chauves-souris
eş: rate-volage, souris-chauve, souris volante
köken: Used as early as the 8th century in Gallic Late Latin calva sōrex (“bald mouse”); the first element ("bald") may originally be an alteration of Vulgar Latin *cawa (“crow, tawny owl”). Equivalent to chauve (“bald”) + souris (“mouse”). Compare Late Latin mūs caecus (“bat”, literally “blind mouse”).
aile: chauve-souriceau, chauve-souris bourdon, chauve-souris de mer, chauve-souris rhinolophe, chauve-souris vampire, chauve-souris-garou, poisson chauve-souris, renard à oreilles de chauve-souris, sphinx chauve-souris
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yar (“bat”) + *kānat (“wing”). Alternatively explained as Proto-Turkic *yarï-kānat (“membrane-wing”), equivalent to Bashkir яры (yarı, “membrane”) + ҡанат (qanat, “wing”). However, this version is dismissed by some researchers as folk etymology. Cognate with Kazakh жарғанат (jarğanat), Tatar ярканат (yarqanat), Kyrgyz жарганат (jarganat), Southern Altai јарганат (ǰarganat),…
bat (any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera) · night person
çekim: çoğul morcegos
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Italic *mūs Latin mūs Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ikos Proto-Italic *kaikos Latin caecus Vulgar Latin mūrem caecum Old Galician-Portuguese murcego Portuguese morcego Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese murcego, from Vulgar Latin *mūrem caecus, by surface analysis, mure (“mouse”) + cego (“blind”). Compare Galician morcego, Spanish murciélago.
köken: First attested as Middle Korean ᄇᆞᆰ〯쥐〮 (pǒlkcwúy) in the Gugeup ganibang eonhae (救急簡易方諺解 / 구급간이방언해), 6:68a, 1489, seemingly a compound of some *ᄇᆞᆰ〯 (*pǒlk) + 쥐〮 (cwúy, “rat”). Folk etymology commonly attributes the first component to ᄇᆞᆰ다〮 (pòlktá, “to be bright”), supposedly reflecting a popular belief that bats have bright eyes that allow them to see at night. However, ᄇᆞᆰ다〮 has an initial low…
a bat; a nocturnal flying mammal · a promiscuous woman
çekim: çoğul fladdermöss · tamlayan fladdermusens
köken: From Old Swedish flædhermus. Equivalent to fladder (“fluttering”) + mus (“mouse”). Slang sense influenced by pussy sense of mus – "flutter-pussy."