köken: From Middle High German brief, from Old High German briaf, which is borrowed from Latin breve, a neuter form of brevis (“short”). Cognates include Middle Dutch brief, Dutch brief, Old Norse bréf, Old Saxon brēf (all of them borrowed from Latin) and English brief.
letter (written character) · letter (written message) · the literal meaning, the plain meaning of something
çekim: çoğul lettres
eş: bafouille, dépêche, note, poulet, pli
zıt: esprit
köken: Inherited from Old French letre, inherited from Latin littera.
aile: à la lettre, après la lettre, au pied de la lettre, avant la lettre, avec la lettre, avoir des lettres, boîte aux lettres, femme de lettres, homme de lettres, lettre d'amour
letter (document) · menu (list of dishes in a restaurant) · playing card
çekim: çoğul cartas
eş: billete, epístola, misiva, naipe, lista, menú
köken: Etymology tree Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs)bor. Latin charta Spanish carta Inherited from Latin charta (“paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus”). Cognate with English card and chart.
aile: a la carta, abrecartas, carta abierta, carta al director, carta amorosa, carta astral, carta blanca, carta bomba, carta de ajuste, carta de amor
Las cartas que anunciaron el descubrimiento de las Indias
letter (written message) · literacy, reading and writing
çekim: çoğul хаттар · tamlayan хаттың
köken: Etymology tree Arabic خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ)bor. Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt)bor. Kazakh хат Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).
aile: хаттама, хатшы, хатшылық
Школдан шыққан балаларымыз орысша хат білсе де, қазақша хат білмейді.
köken: Etymology tree Arabic خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ)bor. Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt)bor. Uzbek xat Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).
köken: Etymology tree Arabic خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ)bor. Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt)bor. Turkmen hat Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).
köken: Etymology tree Arabic خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ)bor. Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt)bor. Kyrgyz кат Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).
köken: Etymology tree Arabic خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ)bor. Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt)bor. Uyghur خەت Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).
köken: Etymology tree Arabic خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ)bor. Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt)bor. Bashkir хат Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).
köken: Compound of 手 (te, “hand”) + 紙 (kami, “paper”). The kami changes to gami as an instance of rendaku (連濁). An etymologically unrelated false friend of Chinese 手紙 /手纸 (shǒuzhǐ).
köken: Sino-Korean word from 片紙. First attested in a Korean text in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), 1511, in hanja form and with the meaning of "small piece of paper". In the hangul script, first attested in the 順天金氏墓出土簡札 / 순천김씨 묘 출토 간찰 ("Letters excavated from the grave of Lady Suncheon Kim"), c. 1585, as Middle Korean 편지 (Yale: phyenci). This is also the first attestation of the "letter"…
letter (written or printed communication) · letter (paper on which such a communication is written) · leaf (part of a plant)
çekim: çoğul listy · tamlayan listu
eş: epistoła
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyd-der. Proto-Slavic *lȋstъ Old Polish list Polish list Inherited from Old Polish list. Etymology 1, noun sense 3 was displaced by liść.
aile: list gończy, list intencyjny, list motywacyjny, list otwarty, list pasterski, list polecający, list uwierzytelniający, list zastawny, list żelazny, listonosz
köken: kirja (“book, writing”) + -e. Coined by Finnish physician and translator Wolmar Schildt in 1844; kirje had also been used some years before in the sense “letter (of the alphabet)”, which is now kirjain.