lamentation, lament (sorrowful cry) · lament, threnody (mournful song expressing sadness over someone's death or some unpleasant event) · threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)
çekim: çoğul lamenty · tamlayan lamentu
köken: Etymology tree Latin lāmentumlbor. Polish lament Learned borrowing from Latin lāmentum.
çekim: geçmiş bocit · ortaç bocit · şimdiki bocește
köken: From boace or from a Vulgar Latin root *vōcīre, from alteration of *vōceāre, from Latin vōx, possibly influenced by vagīre. Compare Aromanian butsescu, butsiri; cf. also Italian bociare, Spanish vocear.
çekim: ortaç lāmentātus · şimdiki lāmentātur · ulaç lāmentāns
köken: Etymology tree Latin lāmentum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -or Latin lāmentor From lāmentum + -or.
köken: Unknown. Attested since the 18th century. Perhaps from lais (“song”); the semantic evolution would be "to sing", then "to sing (a sad song)", then "to mourn, to complain".
köken: Back-formation of earlier *gjamët(ë), Buzuku gjamënë, (originally a neuter noun but interpreted as feminine plural), through Vulgar Latin from Latin gemitum (“groan, lamentation”). Compare Romanian geamăt. Alternatively a deverbative of gjëmoj.