black, reflecting little or no light · illegal · black, having a high amount of melanin in an organ, e.g. the skin
çekim: karşılaştırma schwärzer · üstünlük am schwärzesten
eş: schwarzhaarig
köken: From Middle High German swarz, from Old High German swarz, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd- (“dirty, dark, black”). Compare Dutch zwart, English swart and swarthy, West Frisian swart, Danish sort, Yiddish שוואַרץ (shvarts).
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”). Cognate with Bashkir ҡара (qara), Kyrgyz, Tatar кара (kara), Azerbaijani qara, Turkish kara, Turkmen gara, Uzbek qora, Uyghur قارا (qara, “black”), etc.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kara. cognates Cognate with Uyghur قارا (qara), Turkmen gara, Azerbaijani and Crimean Tatar qara, Turkish kara, Kazakh қара (qara), Kyrgyz кара (kara), and Chuvash хура (hura).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kara. Cognate with Azerbaijani qara, Kazakh қара (qara), Kyrgyz кара (kara), Tatar кара (qara), Turkish kara, Turkmen gara, and Uzbek qora.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”). Cognates include Kazakh қара (qara), Kyrgyz, Tatar кара (kara), Azeri qara, Turkish kara, Turkmen gara, Uzbek qora, Uyghur قارا (qara, “black”).
black (color/colour) · black (of a person) · done without legal permission; illegal
çekim: karşılaştırma svartare · üstünlük svartast
zıt: vit
köken: From Old Swedish svarter, from Old Norse svartr, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz (“black, dark-coloured”), from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black”). Cognate with Dutch zwart, English swart, German schwarz, Icelandic svartur and Danish sort. Related to Latin sordes (“dirt”), sordere (“to be dirty”).
Tense form of now uncommon 가맣다 (gamata), from Middle Korean 가마ᄒᆞ다 (Yale: kama-hota), equivalent to 가마 (Yale: kama, an inflected form of 감다 (kamta, “to be black”)) + ᄒᆞ다 (Yale: hota, light verb whence modern 하다 (hada)). This ᄒᆞ다 (hota) construction, which is now ungrammatical in these contexts, was used widely in Middle Korean to derive emphatic color terms; see below.