soap (substance) · a piece of soap · a particular sort of soap
çekim: çoğul Seifen · tamlayan Seifen
köken: From Middle High German seife, from Old High German seifa, seiffa, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, dribble, strain, trickle”). Cognate with Dutch zeep, Low German Seep, West Frisian sjippe, English soap.
köken: From culebra (“snake”) + -ón (augmentative suffix). The sense of 'soap opera' arose from the shows being extremely long-running and the large number of turns in the plot.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seyb-? Proto-Germanic *saipǭbor. Latin sāpōbor. Ancient Greek σάπων (sápōn)bor. Classical Syriac ܨܲܦ݁ܘܿܢܵܐ (ṣappōnā)bor. Arabic صابون From Aramaic צַפּוֹן / ܨܦܘܢ (ṣappōn), from Ancient Greek σάπων (sápōn), from Latin sāpōnem, accusative of sāpō, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.
köken: Borrowed from Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn), from Aramaic צַפּוֹן / ܨܦܘܢ (ṣappōn), from Ancient Greek σάπων (sápōn), Latin sāpōnem, accusative of sāpō, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ. Cognate with Azerbaijani sabun, Khakas сабын (sabın), etc.
novella (short novel or long short story) · soap opera (a type of television or radio series) · any overdramatic case or event
çekim: çoğul novelas
köken: Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”), from Latin novella, feminine of novellus (“new; fresh”), from novus (“new”), Proto-Indo-European *néwos.
köken: From Byzantine Greek σαπούνιν (sapoúnin, “soap”), inherited from Koine Greek σᾱπώνιον (sāpṓnion), a diminutive of σᾱ́πων (sā́pōn, “soap”), borrowed from Latin sāpō (“soap”).
köken: Borrowed from Portuguese sabão, or from Early Modern Spanish jabón, from Old Spanish xabon. The initial sh- in the Japanese term suggests that Spanish might be the more likely source, considering historical pronunciation patterns. Cognate to Okinawan サフン (safun), and distantly to English soap.
aile: シャボン玉, or the soapbark, soap bark tree, Vigna angularis
köken: From Proto-Finnic *saip(p)u-, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ (“soap”) (compare Swedish såpa) or later Proto-Norse [script needed] (*saipwōn-). The variant saipua is attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552) and modern saippua first in 1609. Doublet of suopa and soopa. The word has many variants in dialects; saiput is most likely to be the primary form, with the other…
köken: Inherited from Latin sāpōnem, accusative singular of sāpō, taken from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ. Less likely through the intermediate of Greek σαπούνι (sapoúni). Compare Aromanian sãpuni, sãpune.