to whistle · to whistle for, to blow on a whistle for · to boo by whistling (to show one's disapproval at something)
çekim: geçmiş sifflé · ortaç sifflé · şimdiki siffle · ulaç sifflant
eş: étufler, fluber
köken: Inherited from Old French sifler (later orthographically influenced by souffler), from Vulgar Latin *sīfilāre, probably an Osco-Umbrian influenced variant of Latin sībilāre (compare Spanish chiflar, Friulian sivilâ). Compare also the variant northern Old French dialectal form sufler (whence Norman sûfflier and Walloon xhufler), from a Vulgar Latin variant *sufilāre (compare Italian zufolare), as…
aile: avoir les oreilles qui sifflent, persiffler, persifler, sifflable, sifflade, sifflage, sifflant, sifflante, sifflée, siffleur
to whistle · to make any similar sound, as a passing bullet · to referee
çekim: geçmiş floten · ortaç gefloten · şimdiki fluit · ulaç fluitend
köken: From Middle Dutch floyten. Equivalent to fluit + -en. Originally a weak verb, which developed strong forms by analogy with sluiten etc. Weak forms died out in the standard language over the 19th century.
köken: Fuller form in dialectal fluieră, of uncertain or disputed origin; possibly from Latin flātūrālis (adj.) ‘blowing’, from flātūra ‘act of blowing’. Other theories suggest a Vulgar Latin root *flibula, from fibula (compare sense of flute in Latin tibia), or a derivative of the related verb fluiera, or a substratum (substrate) word. Alternatively, it may be of originally imitative origin. Compare…