Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mosca, muerta. · two-faced cow, two-faced bitch · to look like butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
snake; serpent (any reptile of the suborder Serpentes) · cobra (any snake of the family Elapidae) · viper (malignant person)
çekim: çoğul cobras
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Galician cobra and Spanish culebra.
aile: a cobra vai fumar, andar como cobra quando perde a peçonha, banha da cobra, cágado-pescoço-de-cobra, cipó-de-cobra, cipó-mata-cobras, cobra criada, cobra que não anda, não engole sapo, cobra-capelo, cobra-coral
a viper, an adder, especially the common European adder, Vipera berus
çekim: çoğul huggormar · tamlayan huggorms
köken: From Old Swedish hugormber, from Old Norse hǫggormr (“a serpent”). Equivalent to hugga + orm. Cognates include Icelandic höggormur (“a poisonous snake, a serpent”). Compare Old Norse hǫgg (“a stroke, a weapon's blow”) and ormr (“a snake, a serpent; a worm; a dragon”).
common European adder (Vipera berus, the only natural species of viper in Finland) · viper (Viperidae)
çekim: çoğul kyyt · tamlayan kyyn
eş: kyykäärme
köken: From Proto-Finnic *küü (compare Estonian küü), possibly from Proto-Uralic *kije (compare Erzya гуй (guj), Moksha куй (kuj), Hungarian kígyó), or alternatively an old clipping for kyykäärme (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).
köken: Possibly borrowed from Albanian nepërkë (“adder, viper”), otherwise cognate to it, from fuller nepërtkë, originally ‘hatchling snake’, maybe from Proto-Slavic *nepъrtъkъ (compare Bulgarian непрътък (neprǎtǎk, “buttercup”)). Compare Aromanian nipãrticã.
a viper, an adder, common European adder, Vipera berus
çekim: çoğul hugorme · tamlayan hugorms
köken: From Old Danish hugorm, from Old Norse hǫggormr (“a serpent”). Equivalent to hugge + orm. Cognates include Icelandic höggormur, Faroese høggormur, Swedish huggorm and Norwegian hoggorm.
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ángis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”). Cognate with Latvian ôdze, Old Prussian angis (“snake”), Russian уж (už, “grass snake”), Latin anguis (“snake, serpent, dragon”), Old Armenian աւձ (awj, “snake, serpent”).
Etimoloji
Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *zmьjà Old Polish źmija Polish żmija Inherited from Old Polish źmija.