köken: From Proto-Turkic *čẹr (“rotten, foul; to rot; illness; dirt; to be sick, ill; rot; glue; anguish, sorrow”) whence also Azerbaijani çürümək (“to rot”); alternatively from Persian چرک (čerk). However, it has been proposed that the latter Persian term is a Turkic borrowing itself (ibid.).
to smell, to have a smell/scent/odor [with ablative or allative]; to stink · to smell like, stink, reek of
çekim: geçmiş haissut · şimdiki haisee · ulaç haiseva
zıt: tuoksua
köken: From Proto-Finnic *haistak. Related to Estonian haistma, Ingrian haissa (“to stink, to smell”), Livvi haižuo (“to stink”), Veps haišta and Votic aisõa (“to stink, to smell”) (Kattila). Probably ultimately derived from Proto-Finnic *haja- (whence haja- and haju (“smell”)).
Of uncertain origin; proposed derivations include: * From Proto-Indo-European *pesd- and so cognate with English feist. This would make ae hypercorrect, with the inherited form being *pēdor. * From a Proto-Indo-European root common with Ancient Greek σπίλος (spílos, “spot, fleck”) and Armenian փիծ (pʻic, “dirty, impure”).