köken: Inherited from Middle Persian yʾmk' (jāmag), from Proto-Iranian *yām- (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yámas, *yam- (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *yém-o-s, from *yem- (“to hold”), Northern Luri جۆمںە (cømə), see also Sanskrit यम् (yam, “to sustain”). Compare Old Armenian վարշամակ (varšamak).
köken: From gey + -im. Cognates Cognate with Bashkir кейем (keyem), Kumyk гийим (giyim), Kazakh киім (kiım),Kyrgyz, Southern Altai and кийим (kiyim), Tatar кием (kiyem), Crimean Tatar and Uzbek kiyim (“clothing”), Turkish giyim, Turkmen geýim etc.
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek ροῦχον (roûkhon), borrowed from a Slavic language; see Proto-Slavic *ruxo (“garments, clothing”) (whence Serbo-Croatian ruho, Polish rucho) for more. Despite superficially similar phonetics and semantics, not related to Late Latin roccus (“ecclesiastical vestment”) (the latter whence English rochet), which instead derives from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz (“tunic, robe”).
aile: ασπρόρουχο, εσώρουχο, πλυντήριο ρούχων, ρουχαλάκι, ρουχισμός, φύλαγε τα ρούχα σου να 'χεις τα μισά
köken: Compound of 着(き) (ki, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 着(き)る (kiru, “to wear clothing”)) + 物(もの) (-mono, “thing”). Compare the similar formation of the word 食(た)べ物(もの) (tabemono, “food”, literally “eating thing”). First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE in the ideographic spelling 裳, later attested less ambiguously in the Utsubo Monogatari of the late 900s…
aile: 着物地, 着物姿: one's appearance in a kimono, how one look while wearing a kimono, 着物道楽