twilight, dusk (time of day between sunset and darkness)
çekim: çoğul crépuscules
eş: fénoir
zıt: aube
köken: Inherited from Middle French crepuscule m, from Old French crepuscule m (first attested in the late 13th c.), borrowed from Latin crepusculum n.
aile: crépusculaire, crépuscule des dieux, crépusculin
köken: Uncertain; possibly from *crepus, *crepes, or *crepos combined with the suffix -culus. One possibility holds that this originates in a Proto-Indo-European form *ksep, that became *ksep-os or *ksep-əs-, then *ksep-os before emerging as *crepus. This sound could be explained through the dissimilation of the initial *s or through a shift from *ks- to *kr-. Varro suggests the term derives from…
First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 어ᅀᅳ름 (Yale: èzùlùm). Also attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as Middle Korean 어ᅀᆞ름 (Yale: èzòlùm). Probably a substantive form of an unattested adjective. Related to Korean 어슬하다 (eoseulhada), 어스레하다 (eoseurehada) and Jeju 어스름 (eoseureum), 어스럼 (eoseureom).