köken: From Middle High German vledermūs, from Old High German fledarmūs, from *fledara (“wing”) + mūs (“mouse”). Displaced older mūstro (“bat”), found also in the combination form fledaremūstro/fledarmūstro.
bat (a small flying mammal of the order Chiroptera) · a charge depicting the animal of the same name
çekim: çoğul chauves-souris
eş: rate-volage, souris-chauve, souris volante
köken: Used as early as the 8th century in Gallic Late Latin calva sōrex (“bald mouse”); the first element ("bald") may originally be an alteration of Vulgar Latin *cawa (“crow, tawny owl”). Equivalent to chauve (“bald”) + souris (“mouse”). Compare Late Latin mūs caecus (“bat”, literally “blind mouse”).
aile: chauve-souriceau, chauve-souris bourdon, chauve-souris de mer, chauve-souris rhinolophe, chauve-souris vampire, chauve-souris-garou, poisson chauve-souris, renard à oreilles de chauve-souris, sphinx chauve-souris
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yar (“bat”) + *kānat (“wing”). Alternatively explained as Proto-Turkic *yarï-kānat (“membrane-wing”), equivalent to Bashkir яры (yarı, “membrane”) + ҡанат (qanat, “wing”). However, this version is dismissed by some researchers as folk etymology. Cognate with Kazakh жарғанат (jarğanat), Tatar ярканат (yarqanat), Kyrgyz жарганат (jarganat), Southern Altai јарганат (ǰarganat),…
a bat; a nocturnal flying mammal · a promiscuous woman
çekim: çoğul fladdermöss · tamlayan fladdermusens
köken: From Old Swedish flædhermus. Equivalent to fladder (“fluttering”) + mus (“mouse”). Slang sense influenced by pussy sense of mus – "flutter-pussy."