flank, side (of the body) · flank (side of the field) · cross (ball from the flank towards the centre)
çekim: çoğul Flanken · tamlayan Flanken
köken: Ca. 1600, from French flanc, from Old French flanc, from Proto-West Germanic *hlanku. Doublet of now obsolete Lanke, which likely influenced the form and gender of the borrowing; analogy with Seite may also have contributed.
side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person, animal) · physical or emotional closeness to someone · side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of an object)
çekim: çoğul boki · tamlayan boku
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *bokъ Old Polish bok Polish bok Inherited from Old Polish bok.
aile: bokami, bokiem, na bok, na boku, pod boki, pod bokiem, z boku, żarty na bok, boczek, boczniak
köken: Inherited from Proto-Italic *kornū. Cognate with English horn, hirn; Ancient Greek κρᾱνῐ́ον (krānĭ́on, “skull”), κέρᾰς (kérăs, “horn”); Sanskrit शृङ्ग॑ (śṛ́ṅga, “horn; tusk”). See also cerebrum (“brain”), cervus (“deer”).
flank (flesh between the last rib and the hip) · side
çekim: çoğul illargas
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese illarga (14th century). From Vulgar Latin *iliarica, from Latin īlia, plural of īle (“guts, intestines”). Cognate with Portuguese ilharga.
köken: From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mnam (“to smell”); compare အနံ့ (a.nam., “odor”), and see Old Chinese 聞 (OC *mɯn, *mɯns, “to smell; to listen”) for more (STEDT).
From French flanc, from Middle French flanc, from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible", "to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle High German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at…