köken: From Gabel (“fork”) + Reiterin (“(female) rider”), from folk beliefs of witches fork-shaped household immplements, comparable to depictions of them flying on broomsticks.
Gut, gut, unterbrach ihn Pedrillo; ich höre die alte Gabelreiterin auf der Treppe; jetzt ist guter Rath teuer!
[…] suchte demnach bei einer alten Frau welche er für eine Gabelreiterin gehalten, einen guten Rat, daß er möchte zu Mitteln kommen.
specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future · magus: priest of the Zoroastrian religion, of the Persians and Medes · wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)
çekim: çoğul mages
eş: astrologue, devin, marabout, voyant
köken: From Latin magus.
Après une violente dispute avec son mari, elle consulte un mage qui lui prédit un sombre avenir.
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic влъхвъ (vlŭxvŭ), from Old Church Slavonic влъснѫти (vlŭsnǫti, “to stutter”), referring to the trances the priests used in their ceremonies.
köken: Reborrowing from Arabic مَجُوس (majūs) + ـی (-i, suffix forming adjectives). Ultimately of the same indeterminate Old Iranian origin as indigenous Persian مغ (moġ) and Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos).
a wizard · a horsetail (tall fern with leaves resembling pine needles)
çekim: çoğul eunjers
eş: unger, unjer, heks, tovenaar, geest, spook
köken: Often related to Ungaar, Hungaar (equivalent to modern Hongaar), meaning "Hungarian", but recent etymologists have cast doubt upon this etymology. A connection to Middle Dutch onghehier (“monstrosity; monstrous”) (modern onguur) has been proposed.
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Galician, Mirandese, Aragonese, and Asturian bruxa; Spanish bruja; Catalan bruixa and Occitan bruèissa), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀉𑀅𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (uajjhāa), 𑀉𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (ujjhāa), from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya, “teacher [of the Vedas]”). Notably borrowed into Middle Chinese 和尚 (MC hwa|hwaH dzyang|dzyangH, “high priest, head monk”). Doublet of उपाध्याय (upādhyāy) and ख़्वाजा (xvājā).
magus (priest in some ancient eastern cultures, like Iranian/Zoroastrian) · one of the three kings or Magi who visited the baby Jesus · by extension, an envoy, messenger, herald, announcer
çekim: çoğul magi · tamlayan magului
köken: Borrowed from Greek μάγος (mágos) (and perhaps partly through Old Church Slavonic магъ (magŭ)), from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). Also more recently borrowed in part from Latin magus, itself of the same Greek origin.