köken: From earlier form زلو (zalū) from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (złwk' /zalūg/) from Proto-Iranian *jaluš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́aluš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelu-. Akin to Old Armenian տզրուկ (tzruk); an Iranian borrowing.
köken: Borrowed from Russian парази́т (parazít), from French parasite, from Latin parasītus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”).
to bloodlet · to (apply a) leech medicinally, as a method to bloodlet · to drain resources without giving back
köken: By surface analysis, ader (“vein”) + laten (“to let”), an ellipsis of Middle Dutch ter ader(en) laten (literally “to let [someone] to the vein”). Compare German zur Ader lassen.
parasite (a (generally undesirable) living organism that exists by stealing the resources needed by another (generally desirable) living organism) · a parasite (person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back)
çekim: çoğul parasitter · tamlayan parasits
eş: snylter
köken: Via Latin parasitus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos).