köken: According to the Royal Spanish Academy, most likely derived from Andalusian Arabic كان خرا (ḵrā kān), meaning "it was shit". An alternative theory is a borrowing from Old High German arag, arg (“worthless, lazy, bad”) or Gothic *𐌰𐍂𐌲𐍃 (*args), both from Proto-Germanic *argaz, whence also Old English earg, English eerie, arch, argh.
köken: From *yalqag(u) (“lazy”), from the verbal stem yalq- (“to be annoyed, to have had enough of sth., to loathe, be disgusted”). Cognate with Kazakh жалқау (jalqau), Bashkir ялҡау (yalqaw), Southern Altai јалку (ǰalku), Uzbek yalqov, Uyghur يالقاۋ (yalqaw), Tuvan чалгаа (çalgaa, “lazy”), etc.
a lazy person · a sloth (mammal of the suborder Folivora)
çekim: çoğul luiaards
köken: From Middle Dutch luyaert. By surface analysis, lui (“lazy”) + -aard. The sense "anteater" is secondary, referring to the perceived laziness of the animal.
köken: From Proto-Mon-Khmer *laaj (“to dissolve; to melt; to become loose; idle”); cognate with Mon လဲာ (lài, “to dissolve, to come loose”). The noun sense is likely a calque of French paresseux.