köken: First attested in James Scarth Gale's Korean-English Dictionary, 1897. The etymology is unclear. The second element is clearly the derogatory agentive suffix -보 (-bo) (cf. 먹— (meok-, “to eat”) > 먹보 (meokbo, “glutton”)), but the first element is uncertain. Two hypotheses have been suggested (Cho Hang-beom 2019, pp. 161—164): * Dropping of the final consonant in 밥 (bap, “rice; food”), with the…
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъlbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *stl̥b-, an ablaut variant of *stelb (“post, pole, jamb”) (whence also stilbs, q.v.), from *stel- (“to put in a standing position, to erect; standing, immobile, stiff”) with an extra b. The semantic evolution was probably: “motionless, stiff” > “surprised, stunned” > “stupid”. Cognates include Old Irish borb (“foolish, silly”), Latvian…
köken: Of debated origin: # A native word from the reduplication irkál-firkál (its first element, irkál, from ír (“to write”) + -kál (frequentative suffix)). # From Latin fricāre with the verb-forming suffix -ál.
Someone with low intelligence; an idiot. · A type of bucket hat, popular among Israeli Jews until the 1970s, particularly among kibbutzniks and members of youth movements.
çekim: çoğul טֶמְבֱּלִים
köken: From Romanian tembel (“lazy, stupid”), derived from Ottoman Turkish تنبل (tembel, “lazy, sluggish”), from Classical Persian تَنْبَل (tanbal).