köken: A Wanderwort, probably from northwestern Indo-Aryan: compare Punjabi ਟੱਬਰ (ṭabbar, “extended family”), Urdu ٹَبَّر (ṭabbar, “extended family”, borrowed from Punjabi), and Pashto ټبر (ṭabə́r, “tribe, clan, people”). Note that the Pashto is clearly borrowed from Indo-Aryan, given the presence of retroflex /ʈ/. However, the word does not have a clear Sanskrit etymology either.
background (portion of an image or scene behind the main figure; portion less important than the figure) · one's personal background · activity not normally visible to, or immediately relevant to a user
ground (background, context, framework, surroundings) · background, origins; one's social heritage · background; a part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context
çekim: çoğul bakgrunder · tamlayan bakgrunds
köken: bak (“behind, at the back”) + grund (“ground”). Probably influenced by a foreign language, compare Danish baggrund (“background”), English background and German Hintergrund (“background”).
origin (beginning; source of something intangible, e.g. information or tradition) · provenance (place or source of origin; the place and time of origin of an artifact)
çekim: çoğul alkuperät · tamlayan alkuperän
köken: alku (“beginning”) + perä (“rear, basis”). Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1836.
background (the scenery behind the main subject of an image) · background (the previous circumstances of a situation) · background (the origins or social heritage of a person)
çekim: çoğul baggrunde · tamlayan baggrunds
köken: bag (“behind”) + grund (“ground”). Calque of German Hintergrund (“background”), cf. also Swedish bakgrund, English background.
fountain, spring (source of flow) · source, fount, root (place, thing, or stock that provides foundation for something to emerge) · origin, basis, beginning