A hawk, a small bird of the family Accipitridae, especially of the genus Accipiter. · northern goshawk (Astur gentilis) · A hawk, someone with aggressive or extreme views in (foreign) politics.
çekim: çoğul haviken
zıt: duif
köken: From Middle Dutch havic, from Old Dutch *havuk, from Proto-West Germanic *habuk. Compare Low German Haavk, German Habicht, West Frisian hauk, English hawk, Swedish hök, Norwegian hauk. The political sense derived from English hawk.
battering ram (siege engine used for battering down walls and gates) · ram (reinforced section of the bow used for ramming other ships) · enforcer; battering ram (modern device used by the emergency services)
çekim: çoğul aríetes
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin arietem (“ram”). Doublet of Áries.
köken: From Middle Mongol ᠱᠣᠩᠬᠤᠷ (šongqur, “falcon”) (> Mongolian шонхор (šonxor, “falcon”)) + 매 (mae, “falcon”), analyzable within Korean as 송골 (songgol, “falcon”) + 매 (mae, “falcon”).
ram (the male sheep) · ram (the siege weapon) · a motherfucker, a bastard
çekim: çoğul berbeci · tamlayan berbecului
eş: arete
köken: Inherited from Late Latin berbēx, berbēce, variant of Latin vervēx. Compare Aromanian birbec. For the meanings 3 and 4, compare the evolution of Spanish cabrón.
köken: Uncertain. The term parallels other formations in other Indo-European languages, such as Proto-Slavic *àstrę̄bъ, Sanskrit आशुपत्वन् (āśupátvan), and Ancient Greek ὠκύπτερος (ōkúpteros, “swift-winged”). De Vaan argues that the first part of the compound, ac-, possibly derives from Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus (“swift, quick”). Alternatively, the philologist Claire Le Feuvre argues that this…