vegetable · vegetable, cabbage (someone in a vegetative state) · legume; pod
çekim: çoğul légumes
köken: Borrowed from Latin legūmen (cf. older form lesgum); was once feminine and became masculine by the 17th century. Replaced the Old French leün, which was inherited from the same source. Compare Italian and Portuguese legume, Catalan llegum, Spanish legumbre.
aile: bac à légumes, bouillon de légumes, coupe-légumes, coupe-légume, eau de légumes, épluche-légumes, épluche-légume, éplucher des vieux légumes, extrait de légumes, fruits et légumes
Manger des légumes est très bon pour la santé.
Depuis qu'il a eu un accident de voiture, il ressemble à un vrai légume.
Le fruit de la vesce est un légume au sens strict.
a vegetable · a vegetable (severely physically or mentally impaired person (unable to take care of themselves, with a dull-seeming existence))
çekim: çoğul grönsaker · tamlayan grönsaks
köken: Compound of grön (“fresh, green”) + sak (“[food] item”), as in not dried or in other ways preserved. Originally likely referring to the quality of the food (fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs, etc.), later becoming the specific food type (vegetables). First attested in 1765.
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.
köken: From Old Latin helus, from Proto-Italic *helos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰélh₃-s ~ *ǵʰl̥h₃-és, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”) + *-s. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *gulaz (“yellow”).