köken: Inherited from Middle French garance, from Old French garance, warance, from Frankish *wrattjā, from Proto-Germanic *wratjō (“red dye”). Cognate with Old High German rezza, reiza (“scarlet; purple; crimson; red; madder”), Old English wræt, wrætte (“crosswort; madder”).
köken: Borrowed from German Krapp, itself from Middle Dutch crappe, from Proto-Germanic *krappô (“hook”), a reference to the plant’s hook-shaped thorns.
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥόϊνος (rhóïnos, “garnet, pomegranate-coloured”), influenced by روی (rōy, “copper”), plausibly also acquired via Aramaic attested in Classical Syriac ܪܘܙܢܘܣ.
madder (Rubia tinctorum) · madder (red dye made of the roots of the madder plant)
eş: mee, mede
köken: Compound of mee (“madder”) + krap (“hook”). The first element is inherited from Middle Dutch mede, which derives from Proto-Germanic *maiþǭ. The second element was likely added in reference to hook-shaped parts of the plant. First attested as meecrappe in 1588, although Middle Dutch already has crapmee meaning the same.
köken: From Koine Greek κόκκινος (kókkinos), from κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, kernel”). The modern sense came from grains of holly, which were used to make red dyes. Displaced earlier Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós).
köken: From Early Middle Japanese adjective 赤(あか)し (akashi), with the 終(しゅう)止(し)形(けい) (shūshikei, “predicative form”) ending in し (shi) first replaced with the 連(れん)体(たい)形(けい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”) ending in き (ki), and then with the medial /-k-/ falling out to result in an ending of い (i). Cognate with 明るい (akarui, “bright”). Medial voiceless plosives, like /-k-/, underwent voicing, then…
red (having red as its colour) · red (left-wing, socialist or communist) · red (colour), (a socialist or a communist)
çekim: karşılaştırma rødere · üstünlük rødest
köken: From Old Norse rauðr, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, cognate with English red and German rot. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-, cf. Latin ruber, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós).