duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae) · mallard; the most common duck species in the area, thought of as the typical duck · Citroën 2CV (an economy car produced by the French company Citroën)
çekim: çoğul Enten · tamlayan Enten
eş: Falschmeldung, Zeitungsente, Urinflasche
köken: From Middle High German ente, confluence of (1.) the plural and oblique singular of ant and (2.) the Old High German variant enita, both from older anut, from Proto-West Germanic *anad. Cognate with Dutch eend. The sense “canard” (mid-19th c.) is a calque of French canard, but also ties in with the expression blaue Enten (“lies, humbug”, literally “blue ducks”, since 15th c.). The sense “Citroën…
köken: Inherited from Middle French canard, from Old French canart, quanart (“duck”), from cane (“female duck", also "boat”), perhaps ultimately from the same imitative root as caner (“to cackle, prattle”) (although caner is attested later than canart) or from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Frankish *kanō (“boat, floating vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”), from…
aile: canard boiteux, canard brun, canard d'Amérique, canard siffleur, canardage, canarder, canardière, faire le canard, froid de canard, ne pas casser trois pattes à un canard
Le pauvre canard en eut assez de toutes ces railleries et il décida de s'en aller.
Les canards eurent là une belle occasion de pondre des oeufs de toute couleur.
köken: Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَّطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”), from Persian بَت (bat, “duck”). Sense of "homosexual" may be related to the Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “to suffer, to be passive”).
aile: agarrar de pato, al agua, patos, cola de pato, flor de pato, hacerse el pato, pagar el pato, patería, patito, patico, pato mandarín
duck (any aquatic bird of the family Anatidae) · drake (male duck) · a naive person
çekim: çoğul patos
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic بَطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish pato and Swahili bata.
aile: cair como um patinho, mudar de pato para ganso, pagar o pato, patinho
köken: Inherited from Old Polish kaczka, from Proto-Slavic *kačьka, a West Slavic innovation of onomatopoeic origin (for the duck's cry, compare English quack for a similar formation) which replaced Proto-Slavic *ǫtь (“duck”) in West Slavic. Cognates include Czech kachna, kačka, and Slovak kačka, kačica.
aile: kaczka dziennikarska, puszczać kaczki, spływać jak po kaczce
duck · female duck · urinal (the portable glass one offered in hospitals, due to its shape)
çekim: çoğul rațe · tamlayan rațe
köken: Definite origin uncertain. Possibly a substrate word, akin to Albanian rosë (< *ratsa?), or from South Slavic (compare Serbo-Croatian and Slovene raca, Serbian dialect race, Bulgarian ряца (rjaca)); compare also Friulian raze, Occitan rit, Hungarian réce, Romani ratsoy.
aile: Balta Raței, Rața, rață catifelată, rață cârâitoare, rață cu cap alb, rață cu cap castaniu, rață cu cap negru, rață cu ciuf, rață cu ochi de șoim, rață cucuiată
duck (Anatinae) · canard (false or misleading report or story)
çekim: çoğul ænder · tamlayan ands
köken: Inherited from Old Norse ǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, cognate with German Ente, Dutch eend. The Germanic noun derives from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”), which is also the source of Latin anas, Ancient Greek νῆττα (nêtta), Lithuanian ántis, Sanskrit आति (ātí). The sense of "false story" is a semantic loan from French canard.
duck: bird of the family Anatidae. · the plant Alternanthera sessilis of the family Amaranthaceae. · the plant Alternanthera bettzickiana of the family Amaranthaceae.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Southwestern Tai *petᴰˢ² (“duck”), from Proto-Tai *pitᴰ (“duck”). The vowel of เป็ด [pet̚ᴰˢ¹] shows irregularity as a reflex of Proto-Tai *pitᴰ. Such reflexes in Southwestern Tai such as Thai and many Central Tai dialects suggest that this etymon might in fact be a post-Proto-Tai loan. The unaspirated /p-/ indicates an early date of borrowing. In Southwestern Tai, cognate…
köken: From Old Norse dunna, from Proto-Germanic *dusnǭ (“the brown one; female duck”), from Proto-Germanic *dusnaz (“brown”); whence also Icelandic dunna, Norwegian dunne. Compare also English dunnock (“hedge sparrow, hedge warbler”), Scottish Gaelic tunnag.