coward
çekim: çoğul Angsthasen · tamlayan Angsthasen
eş: Bangbüx, Feigling, Hasenfuß, Hosenscheißer, Memme, Schisser
köken: From Angst (“fear”) + Hase (“hare”). The compound could simply be based on the hare’s flight instinct, but is usually thought to be an alteration of unattested *Angsthose, from Hose (“trousers, pants”); compare German Bangbüxe, Dutch bangebroek, English scaredy pants.
🔊 He, Angsthase! Traust dich wohl nicht?
bass
eş: court, court sur jambes, court sur pattes, petit, mesquin, vil
köken: Inherited from Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus.
aile: à bas, à bas bruit, à voix basse, au bas mot, bas clergé, bas de plafond, bas latin, bas monde, bas peuple, Bas-Canada
cowardly · cheap, worthless · toilet-trained
eş: asustado, acojonado, jiñado, asustadizo, cobarde, jiñado
köken: Past participle of the verb cagar, corresponding to Latin cacātus.
farter · a person who is scared or who panics
çekim: çoğul бздуны́ · tamlayan бздуна́
eş: бздунья
köken: From бздеть (bzdetʹ, “to fart”).
cowardly, unmanly, dastardly
çekim: karşılaştırma نامردتَر · üstünlük نامردتَرین
köken: From ناـ (nâ-, “un-”) + مرد (mard, “man, masculine”).
🔊 هر که بیباکی کند در راه دوست ره زن مردان شد و نامرد اوست
coward
çekim: çoğul qorxaqlar · tamlayan qorxağın
zıt: mərd, igid, qoçaq
köken: Morphologically from qorxmaq + -aq. Cognate with Turkish korkak, Uzbek qo'rqoq, Kyrgyz коркок (korkok), Kazakh қорқақ (qorqaq) Bashkir ҡурҡаҡ (qurqaq), Tatar куркак (qurqak), Uyghur قورقاق (qorqaq).
🔊 Qorxaq hər gün ölürsə, igid bir dəfə ölür.
🔊 Qorxaq öz kölgəsindən də qorxar.
🔊 Qorxaq nə zərər eylər, nə mənfəət.
cowardly, timid
zıt: батыл, батыр, ер, ержүрек, жүректі, қайсар
köken: жүрек (jürek) + -сіз (-sız).
aile: жүрексіздену, жүрексіздік
coward
çekim: çoğul ҡурҡаҡтар · tamlayan ҡурҡаҡтың
köken: From *qorqaq (“coward”), from Proto-Turkic *kork- (“to be afraid”). Cognate with Tatar куркак (qurqak), Kazakh қорқақ (qorqaq), Kyrgyz коркок (korkok), Uzbek qo'rqoq, Uyghur قورقاق (qorqaq), Azerbaijani qorxaq, Turkish korkak (“coward”).
faint-hearted (individual), coward
çekim: çoğul bangeriken
eş: angsthaas, bangerd, bangeschijter, knijpkont, lafaard, mietje
köken: From bang (“afraid, fearful”) + -erik.
banana (fruit) · banana (plant) · penis
çekim: çoğul bananas
eş: bananinha, pacova, bananeira, manguito
köken: Borrowed from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Further derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese.
aile: banana de dinamite, banana-comprida, banana-da-terra, banana-pão, bananal, bananão, bananeira, bananinha, embananar, república das bananas
🔊 As bananas são ricas em potássio
unmanly, cowardly
köken: From Ancient Greek ἄνανδρος (ánandros). By surface analysis, α- (a-, “not, without”) + άνδρας (ándras, “man, husband”) + -ος (-os).
aile: ανανδρία
good for nothing, lazy, weak-willed
coward (someone easily scared)
köken: 겁(怯) (geop, “fear”) + -쟁이 (-jaeng'i, derogatory agentive suffix).
cowardly
çekim: karşılaştırma fegare · üstünlük fegast
köken: From Old Swedish fēgher, from Old Norse feigr, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz. The present meaning ("cowardly") is through German influence (compare German feige).
aile: fegsnöre
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) · grandmother (mother of one's mother or father) · female teacher
çekim: çoğul baby · tamlayan baby
eş: babsztyl, babsko, babka, fajtłapa, boba, bob
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ Proto-Slavic *bàba Old Polish baba Polish baba Inherited from Old Polish baba.
aile: Baba Jaga, baba-chłop, babiarz, babie lato, babimór, babina, babiniec, babizna, babochłop, baboholik
timid, cowardly
çekim: çoğul कायरों
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷos Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros Sanskrit क॒त॒र (katará)vṛd.? Sanskrit कातर (kātara) Prakrit 𑀓𑀸𑀅𑀭 (kāara) Hindi कायर Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑀸𑀅𑀭 (kāara), from Sanskrit कातर (kātara), possibly a vṛddhi derivative of क॒त॒र (katará), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros, from *kʷos + *-teros. Cognate with…
aile: कायरतापूर्ण, कायरता, कायरपन
tenderfoot
çekim: çoğul arkajalat · tamlayan arkajalan
köken: arka + jalka
slipper
çekim: çoğul bačkory · tamlayan bačkory
eş: papuč, pantofel, onuce, vepřovice, kotovice, syrovice
köken: Borrowed from Hungarian bocskor. First attested in the 19th century.
cowardly, fearful, timid
köken: From frică + -os.
aile: înfricoșa
dupe, mug, sucker (a person who can be easily fooled or deceived)
çekim: çoğul balekok
köken: From Ottoman Turkish بالق (balık, “fish”). Modern Turkish spelling is balık.
rag, mop · a person lacking character and courage; a wimp.
köken: Probably from Aramaic [Term?], saphel of מרט with partial reduplication.
faint-hearted, timid, pusillanimous
köken: From pusillus (“very small”) + animus (“spirit”), calque of Ancient Greek ὀλιγόψυχος (oligópsukhos).
aile: pusillanimitās