herd, flock (group of livestock or other large mammals)
çekim: çoğul Herden · tamlayan Herden
eş: Meute
köken: From Middle High German hert, from Old High German herta, from Proto-West Germanic *herdu. The modern consonantism is Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German hērde). Cognate with English herd, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰 (hairda).
lemming, sheep (one who follows a group without thinking for himself)
çekim: çoğul moutons de Panurge
eş: mouton, normopathe
köken: From a character, called Panurge, in the book by François Rabelais. In the story, Panurge buys a sheep from a vendor and in revenge throws it into the sea. The other sheep in the flock, and the vendor himself who has jumped on the back of the final sheep, instinctively follow suit and drown in the sea too.
lemming (small Arctic and Subarctic rodent from any of six genera of similar rodents) · lemming, yeasayer, doormat, sheeple (someone who uncritically agrees with popular opinion or the status quo) · stereotypical centrist voter, especially a middle class Civic Platform voter
çekim: çoğul lemingi · tamlayan leminga
köken: Internationalism; compare English lemming, French lemming, German Lemming.
group of (land) animals, herd · band (of coyotes) · business (of ferrets)
çekim: çoğul laumat · tamlayan lauman
köken: From Proto-Finnic *lauma, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz. No cognates in other Finnic languages are known (other than a marginal Livvi borrowing from Finnish).
köken: From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *kъrdo, from Proto-Indo-European *kerdʰ-. Doublet of cireadă and ciurdă. Compare Serbo-Croatian кр̏до/kȑdo (“herd”), English herd.
sheep · mutton, lamb (meat) · sheep (person who unquestioningly accepts as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopts popular opinion as their own without scrutiny)
çekim: çoğul birkák
köken: First attested in 1347. Of debated origin: * A native word. * Borrowed from Czech.