a vulture or condor; scavenging birds living in Africa, Europe, Asia and America · someone who takes advantage of a demise or a bankruptcy, usually in a legal, but, for the affected people, offensive way
çekim: çoğul gamar · tamlayan gams
köken: From Old Swedish gamber, from Old Norse gammr.
aile: grågam, gåsgam, lammgam, smutsgam
Innan konkurshandlingarna ens var undertecknade samlades gamarna i verkstaden för att se vad som var värt att sälja vidare
griffin, gryphon · vulture (bird of the genus Aegypius)
çekim: çoğul гри́фи · tamlayan гри́фа
köken: Borrowed from Polish gryf, from Old Polish gryf, from Middle High German grīf/grīfe, from Old High German grifo, from Latin grȳps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀕𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀥 (giddha), from Sanskrit गृध्र (gṛdhra). Cognate with Gujarati ગીધ (gīdh), ગીધડું (gīdhḍũ), Marathi गिधाड (gidhāḍ), Nepali गिद्ध (giddha), Doublet of गृध्र (gŕdhra).
vulture (any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae)
çekim: çoğul keselyűk
köken: Likely descends from a Proto-Hungarian form *küčäläk which was borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare with Chagatai ﻗﻮﭽﺎﻠﺎﻖ (qučalaq, “vulture”) or ﻗﻮﺠﺎﻠﺎﻖ (quǰalaq, “kite”).
köken: Perhaps from the same source as vellere (“to tear, pluck”), but the ending is unclear. De Vaan, despite noting Muller's observation of it maybe being a rhyming word with turtur (“dove”), expresses doubt about a hypothetical proto-form *u̯elH-tor-.
a vulture · covetousness, solicitousness (eager to obtain something desirable at whatever cost)
çekim: çoğul gribbe · tamlayan gribs
köken: From Old Danish gryp, from Old Norse gripr (“vulture, griffin”) and Middle Low German grip, via Latin gryps, Derived from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps). Doublet of grif and kerub. Compare Old Irish gríb (“gyrfalcon, griffin”).