icon (representation as an object of religious devotion) · icon (small picture that represents something)
çekim: çoğul icônes
köken: Borrowed from Russian икона (ikona, “(Eastern Orthodox) religious image”) [1859]; in the GUI sense from English icon, ultimately from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “figure, image, etc.”).
icon (a representation, especially as an object of religious devotion) · icon (a type of religious paining) · icon (a small picture that represents something)
çekim: çoğul iconos
köken: Borrowed from French icône, from Russian ико́на (ikóna), from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn), εἰκόνος (eikónos, “image, likeness”).
köken: Possibly from Proto-Turkic *teŋri (“god; sky, heaven”). If so, Doublet of тәңре (təñre) — see there for more. Compare with Tatar тәре (täre, “pagan deity; Christian icon”), Karachay-Balkar тейри (teyri, “the supreme deity in the local pagan pantheon”).
an icon (religious image of a saint) · an icon (small picture)
çekim: çoğul iconen
köken: Borrowed from Latin īcōn, from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”). Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic икона (ikona), from Greek εικόνα (eikóna), from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn). Compare Aromanian icoanã. Doublet of icon.