köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic сеѵклъ (sevklŭ), via Byzantine Greek from Ancient Greek σεῦκλον (seûklon), as is Bulgarian цвекло́ (cvekló), Macedonian цвекло (cveklo), Serbo-Croatian ци̏кла / cȉkla, Slovak / Czech cvikla, Polish ćwikła, also Hungarian cékla and Romanian sfeclă. Hither belongs also the taxonomic Beta vulgaris var. cicla and Arabic سِلْق (silq).
köken: Bailey derives from Proto-Iranian *čak- (“be pointed, horned”) (compare Khotanese [script needed] (cakurīka-, “wood sorrel”), Persian چکش (čakoš, “hammer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kek-, *kenk-, *keg-, *keng- (“be pointed; hook, peg”), on which see Pokorny. An improbable origin from Old Armenian ճակնդեղ (čakndeł) has also been suggested. Cognate with Kurdish çewender, چەوەندەر (çewender),…
a vegetable cultigen with a meaty root from the Rapifera group within the Brassica rapa species, such as the turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) · a large older type of pocket watch; a turnip
çekim: çoğul rovor · tamlayan rovas
köken: From Old Swedish rova, probably from Middle Low German rove, a European wanderword related to Latin rapa, rapum (“turnip”) and Greek ῥάφη (rháphē, “turnip”). Doublet of rabba.