köken: Etymology tree Latin asinus Old French asne Middle French asne French âne Inherited from Middle French asne, from Old French asne, from Latin asinus.
aile: âne bâté, ânerie, ânesse, ânier, asinin, bander comme un âne, bonnet d'âne, concombre d'âne, coup de pied de l'âne, dos d'âne
köken: Inherited from Chagatai ایشاک (ešäk), from Proto-Turkic *eĺčgek. cognates Cognate with Turkish and Crimean Tatar eşek, Azerbaijani eşşək, and Kazakh есек (esek). Also compare Russian ишак (išak), a Turkic borrowing.
köken: According to Fedotov and Yegorov, directly inherited from Proto-Turkic *eĺčgek (“donkey”), however Eren suggests that it should be considered a borrowing from Tatar ишәк (işäk, “donkey”) rather than direct inheritance.
donkey, ass, Equus asinus · lout, boor, ass, jackass, pig, jerk (an uncultred, ill-bred man)
çekim: çoğul γάιδαροι · tamlayan γαϊδάρου
eş: ἀείδαρος, όνος, κυρ-Μέντιος from Μενδαῖος ὄνος, of the city Μένδη, γομάρι n colloquial, regional
köken: From Hellenistic Koine Greek γάδαρος (gádaros) of 2nd century CE. Medieval γάιδαρος (gáidaros)/γάδαρος (gádaros)/γαΐδαρος (gaḯdaros) or γαϊδάριον (gaïdárion) Origin theories: * Uncertain, obscure: from Arabic غَيْذَار (ḡayḏār) with proposed meaning “harshness, oppression”. * Based on the form γαύδαρος (gávdaros), the same word as Arabic كَوْدَن (kawdan, “beast of burden, particularly a mule or…
donkey, ass (domestic animal) · a jackass (stupid person)
çekim: çoğul åsnor · tamlayan åsnas
köken: Etymology tree Latin asinus Old French asnebor. Old Norse asni Swedish åsna Inherited from Old Norse asni, borrowed from Old French asne, from Latin asinus.
köken: Etymology tree Sanskrit गर्दभ (gardabha) Prakrit 𑀕𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀳 (gaddaha) Hindi गधा Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀳 (gaddaha), from Sanskrit गर्दभ (gardabha).
donkey, ass (Equus asinus) · donkey, stupid person
çekim: çoğul aasit · tamlayan aasin
köken: Borrowed from Old Swedish asne or asni (Swedish åsna), from Old French asne, from Latin asinus. Attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552).
köken: From alteration of the earlier variant asîn or asân (used from the 16th to 18th centuries), itself from Latin asinus. Some writers in the 19th century attempted to revive it under a more Latinized form.
Appears to be an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 驢馬 /驴马, first attested in Japanese in the late 1400s. While the donkey has been known in Japan since antiquity, it seems it was never an important part of Japanese culture. The oldest likely mention was of an 兎馬 (usagiuma, literally “rabbit-horse”), interpreted as referring to a donkey for their longer ears.