köken: Inherited from Latin vulpēs (accusative vulpem) from earlier volpēs, from Proto-Italic *wolpis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p ~ *h₂ulp (“(red) fox”).
fox; cunning and sly person · The British Empire, the United Kingdom, or England
çekim: çoğul روباهان
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (lwpʾh /rōbāh/, “fox”), from Old Persian *raupāθah (“fox”), from Proto-Iranian *Hrawpācáh. Cognate with Baluchi روپاسک (ròpàsk).
fox (both the "true foxes" of the Old World and North America, and the "false foxes" of Latin America) · vixen (female fox) · opossum (any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae)
çekim: çoğul raposas
eş: gambá
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese raposa, from Old Spanish raposa.
aile: casamento de raposa, raposa no galinheiro, raposa-cinzenta, raposa-do-ártico, raposa-do-cabo, raposa-vermelha, raposada, raposo
– Os homens, disse a raposa, têm fuzis e caçam. É bem incômodo!
köken: From Byzantine Greek ἀλωπού (alōpoú), ἀλωπώ (alōpṓ), from Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx), from Proto-Hellenic *alōpēkos (similar to Old Armenian աղուէս (ałuēs)), diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p ~ *h₂ulp (“(red) fox”) (compare Latin volpēs, Lithuanian lãpė, Albanian dhelpër, Persian روباه (rubâh)).
fox, vixen · a cunning and deceptive person · a sly young girl
eş: 여시
köken: From Middle Korean 여ᅀᆞ (yèzò). First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446, as a connective form 여ᇫㅇ (Yale: yèzG-). Presumed classical word stem *jɔzɦ or *jɔzɣ is still evidenced in some dialects (compare dialectal forms 여수 (yeosu), 여시 (yeosi), 여끼 (yeokki), 영 (yeong), 영끼 (yeongkki), etc.).