köken: From Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour, roadstead”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Middle Low German docke (“dock”), borrowed from the Middle Dutch. Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin…
burdock, common name of various plants with sticky shoots or seeds · bur, (idiomatic): beggar's lice, hitchhiker, sticker, sticker bur, (although grammatically incorrect, also written as): burr · an unwelcome person who attaches themselves to someone else
köken: Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 우방 (牛蒡, ubang, “burdock”). First attested in 1489 as Middle Korean 우ᅌᅯᇰ〯 (Yale: wuweng), from unattested intermediary form *우ᄫᅯᇰ (Yale: *wuWeng).
köken: Origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *broťь, reconstructed from the plural brusturi, compare ciucure, fagure. Another theory is a derivation of Latin ustulāre (cf. ustura). It has been attempted to link it to a Germanic (Gepid) word *brustilô (“silk”), but this is unlikely. Finally, it may be linked to a Ladin word bruscandol (“hops”) found in the local speech of Comelico in northeastern…
köken: Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Ottoman Turkish بالدران (baldıran). See German Baldrian for more.
köken: Unknown, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”) – to which labium and lambō –, Proto-Slavic *lopěnъ (“burdock”) is also suggestive.
çekim: geçmiş beskar · ortaç beskåret · ulaç beskærende
köken: From be- + skære, after Middle Low German bescheren. Cognate with Swedish beskära, Norwegian Bokmål beskjære, Dutch bescheren, West Frisian beskeare, English beshear, Old Frisian biskera and Yiddish באַשערן (bashern) (See past participle באַשערט (bashert)).
köken: From Proto-Slavic *rěpьjь. Equivalent to реп (rep, “bur”) (dialectal) + -ей (-ej). Dialectally also known as Bulgarian ре́пел (répel), рьо́пель (rjópelʹ), ре́пен (répen) (possibly from Proto-Slavic *rěpьlь, *rěpělь).
burdock (plant of the genus Arctium) · burr, bur (seed pod of a burdock that sticks in fur or clothing)
çekim: çoğul takjad · tamlayan takja
köken: From Proto-Finnic *takijas, ultimately from Proto-Baltic *dagijas (“burdock”) (compare modern Latvian dadzis and Lithuanian dagys). Cognate with Finnish takiainen, Votic and Ingrian takkiain, Ludian takkiaińe, Livvi takkis- (in the compound takkisheinü (“burdock”)) and Veps takkiž. The word has folk-etymologically merged with the stem in taki-sta/ma (“to prevent”) (compare the dialectal…
köken: From Latin *lappacea, from lappa (“burdock”); or either from Latin lapathium, from Ancient Greek λάπαθον (lápathon).
Etimoloji
Certainly from Middle Chinese 牛蒡 (MC ngjuw pangX), but with a shift from the expected go-on reading of *guhō (or with rendaku as *gubō); compare Korean 우엉 (ueong). First cited to the Iroha Jiruishō (1177-1181).