çekim: geçmiş льсти́вший · ortaç льсти́вший · şimdiki льсти́т · ulaç льстя́щий
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic льстити (lĭstiti) (also лестити (lestiti)), from Proto-Slavic *lьstiti, derived as if from *lьstь (whence лесть (lestʹ)) + -ить (-itʹ).
to roll up, to make into a ball · to cajole, to talk into
çekim: geçmiş 丸めた
eş: 丸め込む
köken: From Old Japanese 丸む (marumu), in the 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”) pattern. Development Natural progression from Old and Classical Japanese 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”) verbs ending in -u to modern Japanese 下(しも)一(いち)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo ichidan katsuyō, “lower monograde conjugation”) verbs ending in…
to blandish, fawn, flatter, butter up (to praise someone dishonestly)
çekim: geçmiş hízelegtek
köken: From hízelkedik (“to flatter someone”) + -leg (frequentative verb-forming suffix), from an otherwise unattested stem + -lkedik. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
köken: Verbal derivation from מַחְמָאָה (makhma'á), itself derived from Psalms he:T:22, with translation of the New American Standard Bible: "His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war".
to fawn upon · to flatter or court · to make obeisance to
çekim: ortaç adūlātus · şimdiki adūlātur · ulaç adūlāns
köken: The first component is evidently ad- (“to, toward”); the second one, however, has an obscure origin. It has been conjectured to come from an unattested *ūlos (“tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”), whence English wool (via Proto-Germanic) and velvet (via a Latin diminutive). Compare Lithuanian valai (“horsetail hair”) and Sanskrit वाल (vā́la, “tail of an animal; tail hair;…