köken: Inherited from Old French gaiant, jaiant, jaianz, from Vulgar Latin *gagantem, through assimilation from Latin gigantem, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dyew- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *deywós Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás Proto-Iranian *daywáh Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (d-i-v /daivaʰ/) Middle Persian 𐫅𐫏𐫇 (dyw /dēw/) Persian دیو (dēw /div)bor. Azerbaijani div Borrowed from Persian دیو (dēw /div).
köken: From Middle Dutch ruese, rose, rese, from Old Dutch *riso, *risi, from Proto-West Germanic *risi, from Proto-Germanic *risiz (“giant”). Cognate to German Riese (“giant”) and Old Norse risi (“giant”).
giant (mythical anthropomorphic creature of great size) written with initial capital Γίγαντας (Gígantas) · giant (large person or organisation) · giant star
çekim: çoğul γίγαντες · tamlayan γίγαντα
eş: κολοσσός
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek γίγαντας (gígantas), from Ancient Greek γίγαντᾰ (gígantă, accusative singular of γίγᾱς (gígās)).
a giant: · a very tall person · a person of extraordinary strength or power, bodily or intellectual
zıt: 小人
köken: Ultimately from Middle Chinese 巨人 (MC gjoX nyin). The professional baseball team is an abbreviation of one of its original names, the 東京巨人軍 (Tōkyō Kyojin-gun, “Tokyo Giants”).
giant, colossus (any creature or thing of gigantic size) · giant (a star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature) · giant, gigantic, huge, colossal, mammoth
çekim: çoğul óriások
köken: Of disputed origin. Either a loanword from Russian оря́сина (orjásina) or the proper noun Uriás (“Uriah”) becoming a common noun.