black, reflecting little or no light · illegal · black, having a high amount of melanin in an organ, e.g. the skin
çekim: karşılaştırma schwärzer · üstünlük am schwärzesten
eş: schwarzhaarig
köken: From Middle High German swarz, from Old High German swarz, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd- (“dirty, dark, black”). Compare Dutch zwart, English swart and swarthy, West Frisian swart, Danish sort, Yiddish שוואַרץ (shvarts).
köken: Inherited from Middle French martre, from Old French martre, from Frankish *marþr, from Proto-Germanic *marþuz, which see. Xavier Delamarre in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (2003) proposes confluence with a Gaulish *martalos. This is only attested as a personal name, however, of which neither meaning nor Celtic origin are certain.
black (color/colour) · under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation
çekim: karşılaştırma sortere · üstünlük sortest
köken: From Old Danish swart, swartær, from Old Norse svartr (“black”), from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd- (“dirty, dark, black”).