black, reflecting little or no light · illegal · black, having a high amount of melanin in an organ, e.g. the skin
çekim: karşılaştırma schwärzer · üstünlük am schwärzesten
eş: schwarzhaarig
köken: From Middle High German swarz, from Old High German swarz, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd- (“dirty, dark, black”). Compare Dutch zwart, English swart and swarthy, West Frisian swart, Danish sort, Yiddish שוואַרץ (shvarts).
köken: Inherited from Middle French martre, from Old French martre, from Frankish *marþr, from Proto-Germanic *marþuz, which see. Xavier Delamarre in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (2003) proposes confluence with a Gaulish *martalos. This is only attested as a personal name, however, of which neither meaning nor Celtic origin are certain.
black (color/colour) · black (of a person) · done without legal permission; illegal
çekim: karşılaştırma svartare · üstünlük svartast
zıt: vit
köken: From Old Swedish svarter, from Old Norse svartr, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz (“black, dark-coloured”), from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black”). Cognate with Dutch zwart, English swart, German schwarz, Icelandic svartur and Danish sort. Related to Latin sordes (“dirt”), sordere (“to be dirty”).
black (color/colour) · under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation
çekim: karşılaştırma sortere · üstünlük sortest
köken: From Old Danish swart, swartær, from Old Norse svartr (“black”), from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd- (“dirty, dark, black”).