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?
cowardly
çekim: çoğul couards
eş: lâche, peureux
köken: Inherited from Middle French couard, from Old French cuard, from cüe, coue (“tail”); equivalent to queue + -ard.
aile: couardement, couardise
wimp
eş: normie
köken: Distorted from Arabic بَطَّال (baṭṭāl) or another word from the root ب ط ل (b ṭ l), or maybe from بَتَرَ (batara, “to cut off”) in view of Salamancan baldorro (“beast that one culls for being old or sick”), baldorras and boldregas (“tattered”), Aragonese and Spanish baldrés (“tanned sheep hide”), Portuguese and Galician baldréu (“goat-hide for gloves; depraved person”), Canarian baladrón…
earthenware crock · shard (of broken pottery)
çekim: çoğul cocci
eş: stoviglia, vaso, terraglia, terracotta, terracotta di scarso valore, vasellame
köken: From coccia.
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
çekim: çoğul қорқақтар · tamlayan қорқақтың
köken: From *qorqaq (“coward”), from Proto-Turkic *kork- (“to be afraid”). Cognate with Tatar куркак (qurqak), Bashkir ҡурҡаҡ (qurqaq), Kyrgyz коркок (korkok), Uzbek qo'rqoq, Uyghur قورقاق (qorqaq), Azerbaijani qorxaq, Turkish korkak (“coward”), etc.
aile: қорқақтау, қорқақтық
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”).
coward, wuss
çekim: çoğul lafaards
eş: lafbek
köken: From laf + -aard.
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
coward (someone easily scared)
köken: 겁(怯) (geop, “fear”) + -쟁이 (-jaeng'i, derogatory agentive suffix).
coward, a person who lacks courage
çekim: çoğul fegisar · tamlayan fegisens
köken: feg + -is
a male surname
çekim: çoğul ciapy · tamlayan ciapy
eş: papka, breja, ciamajda, ślamazara, oferma, niezdara
köken: From ciapa.
aile: ciapowaty
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
slouch, do-nothing, wimp, nebbish (an ineffectual or weak-willed person)
çekim: çoğul nahjukset · tamlayan nahjuksen
köken: Possibly a variant of nuhjus.
aile: nahjustella, rahjus
coward
çekim: çoğul bázlivci · tamlayan bázlivce
eş: ustrašenec, zbabělec
köken: From bázlivý + -ec.
coward, poltroon, dastard
çekim: çoğul lași
köken: Borrowed from French lâche.
rag, mop · a person lacking character and courage; a wimp.
köken: Probably from Aramaic [Term?], saphel of מרט with partial reduplication.
coward, chicken
çekim: çoğul bangebukse · tamlayan bangebuks'
köken: From bange (“afraid, scared”) + bukser (“trousers, pants”). Compare with English scaredy pants.