pure, clear · alone, sheer, mere, just, nothing less than
çekim: çoğul puros
eş: casto, virgen, casto, limpio
zıt: impuro, mezclado, sucio
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish puro, from Latin pūrus. In the noun sense short for cigarro puro, a product to be smoked that is made – unlike the cigarette – of “tabaco puro, sin papel” (pure tobacco, without paper). Note that in Spanish the unqualified term cigarro can also refer to a cigarette.
aile: a puro huevo, apurar, cigarro puro, de pura cepa, de pura uva, de puro aire, de puro fay, la pura verdad, matemáticas puras, por las puras
clean, pure · innocent, clean-handed, sinless · holy
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pʾk' /pāk/, “clean, pure, holy”), from Proto-Iranian *pawHākáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pawHākás, from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Cognate with Sanskrit पावक (pāvaká, “pure, clean, clear”), Latin purus.
genuine, authentic; not faked or counterfeit · proper, pure, undiluted · married
çekim: karşılaştırma mer äkta · üstünlük mest äkta
köken: From older spelling ekta, from Middle Low German echt, from Proto-West Germanic *aiwahaft. Cognate with Icelandic ekta, Norwegian Nynorsk ekte and Danish ægte.
Det där var en äkta idioti!
Äkta hembakade kakor slår allt vad som finns i affärerna.
very, extremely · in particular, particularly · synonym of eritellen (“specifying, allocating”)
eş: epätavallisen, erinomaisen, hirveän, huikean, hyvin, huomattavan
köken: eri + -ttäin (distributive plural). Equivalently, from the second infinitive instructive of erittää (“to specify”) (standard erittäen), and erittäin is very likely one of the prototypes for the -ttain suffix in general. Semantic evolution seems to run from senses 3-to-2-to-1.
clean (which is not dirty, has no stains, no undesirable substances, etc.) · clean (such that it has no dirt, stains, etc. on any body part, clothes, etc.) · pure, clean (not containing any unnecessary or undesirable impurities)
çekim: karşılaştırma tīrāks · üstünlük vistīrākais
eş: īsts
zıt: netīrs
köken: From the past tense stem *tīr- of an earlier verb *tirt (“to rub”), from Proto-Baltic *tir-, from the zero grade *tr̥- of Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to rub, to rub by turning, twisting; to turn, to drill”), whence also Latvian trīt (“to whet”), and also Russian тереть (teretʹ, “to rub, to scrub”), dialectal тирать (tiratʹ). Cognates include Lithuanian tyrùs (“bright, light, clean; fresh; without…