eş: maul, cocotte, pieuvre, poste téléphonique à haut-parleur, speakerphone
köken: Inherited from Middle French tortue, borrowed from Old Occitan tortuga, tartuga, from Late Latin tartarūcha, feminine form of tartarūchus, a mythological spirit of Greek origin, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “resident or native of Tartarus”), from Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Cf. also Medieval Latin tortuca. Compare Spanish tortuga, Italian tartaruga.
turtle, tortoise · tortoiseshell (carapace of a tortoise) · testudo (Roman military formation)
çekim: çoğul tartarughe
eş: testuggine, chelone, persona lenta, lumaca, lumacone, posapiano
köken: From Late Latin tartarucha, feminine form of tartaruchus, a mythological spirit of Greek origin, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “inhabitant of Tartarus”), from Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Compare French tortue, Spanish tortuga.
a terrapin, or any other freshwater turtle · side-necked turtle (member of the Pleurodira suborder of turtles) · a slow or lazy person
çekim: çoğul cágados
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Paleo-Hispanic *calap(p)acu, perhaps related to the etymon of cabaça. Cognate with Galician cágado (“tadpole”), Spanish galápago (“turtle”) and Catalan calàpet (“toad”). Doublet of Galápagos.
köken: sköld (“shield”) + padda (“toad”), from Old Swedish skioldpadda, a calque of Low German schildepadde, schiltpadde; compare with Norwegian Nynorsk skjelpadde, Danish skildpadde, Norwegian Bokmål skilpadde and Dutch schildpad. Compare German Schildkröte.
turtle (any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body) · tortoise (any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae or the order Testudines, whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron)) · terrapin (any of several small turtles native to North America that live in brackish or fresh water)
çekim: çoğul żółwie · tamlayan żółwia
eş: żelazna żaba
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *žьlvъ Old Polish żółw Polish żółw Inherited from Old Polish żółw.
turtle, tortoise, terrapin · old woman; prune (often in sexual context)
çekim: çoğul želvy · tamlayan želvy
eş: kocour, kočka
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьlvъ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian žołwja, Lower Sorbian žołw, Polish żółw, Serbo-Croatian žȇlvā and Slovene žélva. First attested in the 19th century.