a skin, a hide · a fur, a pelt · a sheet (e.g. of paper; incorrectly used for a page)
çekim: çoğul vellen
köken: From Middle Dutch vel, from Old Dutch *fel, from Proto-West Germanic *fell, from Proto-Germanic *fellą, from Proto-Indo-European *pello-, *pelno-, whence Latin pellis, Greek πέλλα; cognate with German Fell.
aile: beestenvel, dierenvel, dik vel, nekvel, olifantenvel, uit zijn vel springen, velachtig, vellig, velloos, velploter
Haar velletje zat tussen de deur.
Tientallen vellen van beren en wolven lagen opeengestapeld.
Het glas van een gloeilamp is niet veel dikker dan een vel papier
sheepskin (skin of a sheep with the fleece left on) · doormat (someone that is over-submissive to others’ wishes) · a member of a labor union or a labor union itself that acts contrary to the workers' best interest.
çekim: çoğul pelegos
köken: By surface analysis, pelo + -ego. However, some sources say it comes from Spanish pellejo. When used in a political sense, it may be related to the saying "lobo em pele de cordeiro".
the wool shorn from a sheep; fleece; wool · the hide or pelt of an
çekim: çoğul vellera · tamlayan velleris
köken: Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool”), and connected to Latin lāna (“wool”) and Gaulish vlana. This is favored by Meiser, but rejected by Schrijver and De Vaan, the latter who instead proposes the word as a derivative of vellō (“to pluck out”).
Borrowed from Arabic. Coromines and Pascual say it is a borrowing of a "vulgar" (or spoken) Arabic term سَليخَة (salīḵa). First attested in the early 17th century in Don Quixote.