köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (stwlg /sturg/), from Proto-Iranian *stūrakah. Cognate to Bactrian στοργο (storgo, “mighty, strong, great”). Minus one stem extension from pairing with the equivalent of بزرگ (bozorg) (like Proto-Slavic *čeršьňa (“sweet cherry”) from alignment with *višьňa (“sour cherry”)) cognate to Sanskrit स्थूर (sthūra, “bulky, massive”). In equivalent meaning with…
در رحم پیدا نباشد هند و ترک چون که زاید بیندش زار و سترگ
köken: From Proto-Finnic *huikëda, the root of which is possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swiką. Related to Karelian huikie (“shameful”) and Veps huiged (“indecent, shameful”).
köken: From khổng + lồ: * the first element is Sino-Vietnamese word from 孔 ~ 空 (homophonous alternative form of 孔), meaning "large, grand"; while * the second element is Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 路 (“large, grand”, SV: lộ), its huyền-tone likely resulting from the same historical phonological process which yields doublets like loài & loại from 類 (MC lwijH), từ & tự from 自 (MC dzijH), dùng &…
gigantic, enormous, huge (having unusually large size or power) · gigantic, enormous, huge (requiring unusually large efforts, power, energy for its realization)
çekim: karşılaştırma gigantiskāks · üstünlük visgigantiskākais
eş: liels, milzīgs, prāvs
zıt: mazs, neliels, sīks
köken: From gigants (“giant”) + -isks. Probably not derived as such in Latvian, but borrowed and adapted from other European languages.
gigantiska celtne
gigantiska hidroelektrostacija
aiz augstās dēļu sētas paceļas fabrikas gigantiskie korpusi
Etimoloji
Traditionally from in- (“un-, not”) + gens (“kind, family, race”); something that goes beyond what is natural for its kind. Sometimes linked to Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, from an extended form of the oblique stem *m̥ǵh₂- ; this would make it cognate to magnus, Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas) and Sanskrit महत् (mahat)