an old man · a venerated man enjoying communal authority; elder, patriarch, leader of the tribe, adviser · leader of the family, respected man in the family
çekim: çoğul ağsaqqallar · tamlayan ağsaqqalın
köken: Bahuvrihi compound of ağ (“white”) + saqqal (“beard”).
patriarch (male head of a community or household) · patriarch (highest rank of bishop)
çekim: çoğul patriarcas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese patriarca, patriarcha, borrowed from Late Latin patriarcha, from Byzantine Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “the founder of the tribe/family”), from Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) + -άρχης (-árkhēs, “-arch”).
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞ자ᇰ〮 (Yale: kòcáng). Original meaning: "very, extremely". Superlative meaning ("most") from sixteenth century onward. Displaced previous superlative adverbs 안〮직 (Yale: áncìk), ᄆᆞᆺ〮 (Yale: mós).
a patriarch, a male ancestor; Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jacob's 12 sons in the Old Testament; a high bishop in the orthodox church; a male dominant leader
çekim: çoğul patriarker · tamlayan patriarks
köken: From Old Swedish patriarke, from Latin patriarcha.
köken: Etymology tree Ancient Greek πᾰτρῐᾱ́ (pătrĭā́) Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō) Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρχή (ărkhḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ρχης (-ắrkhēs) Ancient Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs)bor. Latin patriarcha Borrowed from Ancient Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs).
köken: From Arabic بَطْرِيك (baṭrīk), بَطْرِيَرْك (baṭriyark), from Coptic ⲡⲁⲧⲣⲓⲁⲣⲭⲏⲥ (patriarkhēs), from Byzantine Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “the founder of the tribe/family”), from Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) + -άρχης (-árkhēs, “-arch”). Doublet of patriark.