coward
çekim: çoğul Angsthasen · tamlayan Angsthasen
eş: Bangbüx, Feigling, Hasenfuß, Hosenscheißer, Memme, Schisser
köken: From Angst (“fear”) + Hase (“hare”). The compound could simply be based on the hare’s flight instinct, but is usually thought to be an alteration of unattested *Angsthose, from Hose (“trousers, pants”); compare German Bangbüxe, Dutch bangebroek, English scaredy pants.
🔊 He, Angsthase! Traust dich wohl nicht?
cowardly
çekim: çoğul couards
eş: lâche, peureux
köken: Inherited from Middle French couard, from Old French cuard, from cüe, coue (“tail”); equivalent to queue + -ard.
aile: couardement, couardise
cowardly, craven, gutless, spineless, dastardly · yellow (easily frightened)
çekim: çoğul cobardes
köken: Borrowed from French couard, from Old French cuard.
aile: acobardar, cobardemente, cobardía, cobardón
cowardly, namby-pamby, spineless · coward (of a lion)
çekim: çoğul codardi
eş: fifone, vile, vigliacco, pusillanime, debole, pauroso
köken: Calque of Old French couard, from cue (“tail”). By surface analysis, coda (“tail”) + -ardo.
aile: codardamente
Rusça 🔊 бздун , боягу́з , боягу́зка , боя́ка , ссыкло́ , ссыку́н /bzdun/ farter · a person who is scared or who panics
çekim: çoğul бздуны́ · tamlayan бздуна́
eş: бздунья
köken: From бздеть (bzdetʹ, “to fart”).
Arapça 🔊 اِبْن عُرْس مُنْتِن , اِبْن عُرْس مُنْتِن أُورُوبِيّ , جَبَان , فَأْر الْخَيْل , فَأْر الْخَيْل الْأُورُوبِيّ
Farsça 🔊 بزدل , ترسو , نامرد /naː.ˈmard/ cowardly, unmanly, dastardly
çekim: karşılaştırma نامردتَر · üstünlük نامردتَرین
köken: From ناـ (nâ-, “un-”) + مرد (mard, “man, masculine”).
🔊 هر که بیباکی کند در راه دوست ره زن مردان شد و نامرد اوست
coward
çekim: çoğul qorxaqlar · tamlayan qorxağın
zıt: mərd, igid, qoçaq
köken: Morphologically from qorxmaq + -aq. Cognate with Turkish korkak, Uzbek qo'rqoq, Kyrgyz коркок (korkok), Kazakh қорқақ (qorqaq) Bashkir ҡурҡаҡ (qurqaq), Tatar куркак (qurqak), Uyghur قورقاق (qorqaq).
🔊 Qorxaq hər gün ölürsə, igid bir dəfə ölür.
🔊 Qorxaq öz kölgəsindən də qorxar.
🔊 Qorxaq nə zərər eylər, nə mənfəət.
cowardly
çekim: çoğul қорқақтар · tamlayan қорқақтың
köken: From *qorqaq (“coward”), from Proto-Turkic *kork- (“to be afraid”). Cognate with Tatar куркак (qurqak), Bashkir ҡурҡаҡ (qurqaq), Kyrgyz коркок (korkok), Uzbek qo'rqoq, Uyghur قورقاق (qorqaq), Azerbaijani qorxaq, Turkish korkak (“coward”), etc.
aile: қорқақтау, қорқақтық
polecat, ferret
çekim: çoğul көҙәндәр · tamlayan көҙәндең
köken: From Proto-Turkic *küŕen (“weasel, ferret”). Cognate with Kumyk гёзен (gözen, “marten”), Kyrgyz күзөн (küzön), Khakas кӱзен (küzen), Southern Altai кӱзен (küzen). Akin to Hungarian görény and Nor Nakhichevan Armenian գյուջեն (gyuǰen), գուջեն (guǰen), Turkic borrowings.
a person who is easily scared, scaredy-cat
çekim: çoğul angsthazen
eş: bangerd, bangerik, bangeschijter, lafaard, schijtebroek, schijtlaars
köken: From angst (“fear”) + haas (“hare”), a calque of German Angsthase, which could be based on the hare’s flight instinct, but is usually thought to be an alteration of unattested *Angsthose, from Hose (“trousers, pants”); compare Dutch bangebroek, English shit one's pants.
aile: angsthazerij
augmentative of bunda · chicken; coward; wuss
çekim: çoğul bundões
eş: bunda-mole
köken: From bunda + -ão (augmentative suffix).
unmanly, cowardly
köken: From Ancient Greek ἄνανδρος (ánandros). By surface analysis, α- (a-, “not, without”) + άνδρας (ándras, “man, husband”) + -ος (-os).
aile: ανανδρία
coward
köken: From 卑(ひ)怯(きょう) (hikyō, “cowardice”) + 者(もの) (-mono, “person”).
coward (someone easily scared)
köken: 겁(怯) (geop, “fear”) + -쟁이 (-jaeng'i, derogatory agentive suffix).
coward, a person who lacks courage
çekim: çoğul fegisar · tamlayan fegisens
köken: feg + -is
Ukraynaca 🔊 боягу́з , боягу́зка , страхополо́х , тхір , тхір лісови́й , тхір чо́рний /tʲxʲir/ polecat · ferret
çekim: çoğul тхори́ · tamlayan тхора́
köken: From Proto-Slavic *dъxorь. Cognate with Belarusian тхор (txor), Russian хорь (xorʹ).
timid, cowardly
çekim: çoğul कायरों
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷos Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros Sanskrit क॒त॒र (katará)vṛd.? Sanskrit कातर (kātara) Prakrit 𑀓𑀸𑀅𑀭 (kāara) Hindi कायर Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑀸𑀅𑀭 (kāara), from Sanskrit कातर (kātara), possibly a vṛddhi derivative of क॒त॒र (katará), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros, from *kʷos + *-teros. Cognate with…
aile: कायरतापूर्ण, कायरता, कायरपन
tenderfoot
çekim: çoğul arkajalat · tamlayan arkajalan
köken: arka + jalka
coward
çekim: çoğul bázlivci · tamlayan bázlivce
eş: ustrašenec, zbabělec
köken: From bázlivý + -ec.
polecat
çekim: çoğul dihori · tamlayan dihorului
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic дъхорь (dŭxorĭ), from Proto-Slavic *dъxorь. Compare Macedonian твор (tvor, “skunk”), Slovene dihur (“polecat”), Russian хорь (xorʹ).
polecat (a weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela) · European polecat (Mustela putorius)
çekim: çoğul görények
köken: An Oghur borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *küŕen (“ferret, weasel”). See Bashkir көҙән (köźən) for more.
aile: vadászgörény
İbranice 🔊 מוּג לֵב , סַמּוּר , פַּחְדָן , פחדנית , שָׁפָן
polecat · skunk
çekim: çoğul putōriī · tamlayan putōriī
köken: Possibly related to putridus (“rotten, decayed”). Compare the etymologies of foumart, putois, etc.