köken: Learned borrowing from Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“candid, white”), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum.
female equivalent of zawodnik (“competitor, player, contender, contestant”) (female participant in a competition) · female equivalent of zawodnik (“competitor”) (female person against whom one is competing)
çekim: çoğul zawodniczki · tamlayan zawodniczki
köken: Etymology tree Polish zawodnik Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish zawodniczka From zawodnik + -ka.
male rival, male contender, male competitor, male emulator
çekim: çoğul съпе́рници
köken: Ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *sǫpьrьnikъ, spread via the literary language. Diachronically, possibly borrowed from Russian сопе́рник (sopérnik). Synchronically, an agent noun of obsolete съ́пря се (sǎ́prja se, “to altercate”) + -ник (-nik).