rook (a black bird whose large flocks signal the arrival of spring)
çekim: çoğul грачи́ · tamlayan грача́
köken: Originally Russian word formed from the onomatopoeia гра (gra) + -ач (-ač). Cf. ка́ркать (kárkatʹ) and other similar words with onomatopoeic origin, such as Ukrainian грак (hrak, “rook”) and крук (kruk, “raven”).
one of certain related birds of the genus Corvus or of the family Corvidae · synonym of zwarte kraai (“carrion crow (Corvus corone)”) · a person dressed in black
çekim: çoğul kraaien
köken: From Middle Dutch crâye, from Old Dutch *krāia, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ.
köken: First attested as Late Old Korean 柯馬鬼 in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103. First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 가마괴〮 (Yale: kàmàkwóy). Also attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 가마귀〮 (Yale: kàmàkwúy). The influential mid-twentieth-century linguist Heo Ung believed this was 감- (Yale: kam-, “to be black”) + -아괴〮 (Yale:…
to con, swindle, cheat, trick, deceive, hoax, defraud
çekim: geçmiş huijannut · şimdiki huijaa · ulaç huijaava
köken: Uncertain, has sometimes been theorized to be a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną (suggesting derivation through Proto-Finnic *huigat'ak, although no other Finnic cognates are known). Compare huikata, huikkia (“to barter”).
crow · slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person
çekim: çoğul ciori · tamlayan ciori
köken: Unknown. Possibly a substratum word of Dacian and ultimately Indo-European origin, related to Albanian sorrë, or borrowed from it; compare Aromanian cioarã, tsoarã. Also seemingly related to several Italo-romance dialect cognates, compare Friulian çore, Calabrian ciola, Neapolitan ciàula, Sicilian ciaula and Tarantino ciola.
aile: a-l râde și ciorile, cât cioara în par, ca cioara în par, ceapa-ciorii, cioară-de-câmp, cioară-de-semănătură, cioară-gulerată, cioară-pucioasă, ciocul-ciorii, ciorărie