pigeon, dove (male or female bird of the Columba genus) · Columba (constellation)
çekim: çoğul Tauben · tamlayan Tauben
eş: Girrvögel, Stadttaube, Ratte der Lüfte, Frieden, Liebe, Treue
köken: From Middle High German tūbe, from Old High German tūba, from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā. Cognate with German Low German Duuv, Dutch duif, English dove, Danish due, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Alemannic German Tuub, Yiddish טויב (toyb).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese poomba (13th century: Cantigas de Santa Maria), from earlier Old Galician-Portuguese paomba, from Proto-Ibero-Romance palomba, from Vulgar Latin palumba, from Latin palumbus, from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (“dark-colored, gray”). Doublet of Paloma.
köken: From Old Swedish dūva, from Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ. Compare Danish and Norwegian Bokmål due, Icelandic dúfa, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.
köken: Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos)bor. Vulgar Latin columbusbor. Proto-Slavic *golǫbь Polish gołąb Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golǫbь.
pigeon, dove (bird of the family Columbidae) · pigeon (bird of the genus Columba within that family) · dove (person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict)
çekim: çoğul kyyhkyt · tamlayan kyyhkyn
eş: kyyhkynen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kühkü, probably of onomatopoeic origin.
köken: From Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “a diver”), from κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”). (Aristophanes [Birds, 304] and others use the word κολυμβίς (kolumbís, “diver, sea-bird”).)
pigeon, dove (Columbidae) · term of endearment for women
çekim: çoğul duer · tamlayan dues
köken: From Old Danish dufæ, from Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ, cognate with Norwegian due, Swedish duva, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.
köken: The first element can also be seen in words like bồ nông (“pelican”), bồ các (“magpie”). For the second element, see cu; it is ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Thai เขา (kǎo), Chinese 鳩 (OC *[k](r)u) (B-S), Burmese ခို (hkui), English coo.