köken: Attested from the 15th century, in the 14th in the compound götzenträger for "icon". In the 15th and 16th centuries a term for "cast image", and more generally for "image, likeness". In the 15th century used in the sense of "fool, stupid person", presumably influenced by Götz, a short form of the given name Gottfried. Grimm cites a folk song collected by Uhland (1881), based on a manuscript dated…
idol (graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power) · idol (cultural icon, or especially popular person)
çekim: çoğul idoles
eş: déité, Dieu, déesse, dieu, divinité
köken: From Latin īdōlum.
Peut-être, Assuérus, frémissant de courroux, Si nous ne courbons les genoux Devant une muette idole, Commandera qu'on nous immole.
köken: Borrowed from Latin īdōlum, from Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image, idol”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”). Cognate with English idol.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese idolo, borrowed from Latin īdōlum, from Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image, idol”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).
köken: Borrowed from English idol. Attested in the late 1880s, in the novel Ukigumo, as a poetic alternative to 本尊 (“object of worship”), but popularized with its current meaning after the 1964 Japanese release of the French film Cherchez l'idole (Find the Idol).