köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (plk(y) /pillag/), from Proto-Iranian [Term?], ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, step”).
köken: Cognate with Kazakh теңге (teñge, “piece of money; Kazakhstan's national currency”), Uzbek tanga (“currency in the historical Central Asian states; fish scale”), Uyghur تەڭگە (tengge, “silver coin; ruble; fish scale”), Turkmen teňňe (“monetary unit”). Russian деньга (denʹga, “denga, an old coin”). For Bashkir this is clearly a cultural borrowing from Central Asia: tanka was the name of the…
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 비늘〮 (Yale: pìnúl). Compare also Gyeongsang 브널 (beuneol) and Jeju 비늘 (bineul).
scale, keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals, particularly fish or reptiles · plaque (symptom of psoriasis) · case, casing, the outer part of an ammunition cartridge
çekim: çoğul łuski · tamlayan łuski
eş: łupina, gilza
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *luska Polish łuska Inherited from Proto-Slavic *luska.
scale (ordered numerical sequence used for measurement)
çekim: çoğul asteikot · tamlayan asteikon
köken: aste (“stage, step; degree”) + -ikko. First attested in Frans Ferdinand Ahlman: Ruotsalais-suomalainen ja suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja ("Swedish-Finnish and Finnish-Swedish Dictionary", 2nd edition, 1883-1884).
köken: Borrowed from Akkadian 𒄑𒄿𒇻 (simmiltum, “stair; stairs; ladder”) with metathesis. Cognate with Aramaic סוּלַם (sulam), Arabic سُلَّم (sullam), borrowed from the same etymon.
aile: סולמית, סֻלָּמִית, סולם דגים
נתן גושן, נושבת באוויר עדינה ומטפסת, הכי גבוה מכולם, קצת שכחת מי מחזיק את הסולם.
scale (small plates of keratin on the skin of fish and certain reptiles) · scale (overlapping layers in a pinecone) · dandruff (small pieces of skin in the hair)
çekim: çoğul skællene · tamlayan skæls
köken: From Old Norse skel f (“shell”), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, cognate with Norwegian skjell, English shell, Dutch schil, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰 (skalja, “tile”).