köken: From Middle High German rëgenboge, from Old High German reginbogo, from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō. Equivalent to Regen (“rain”) + Bogen (“bow, arch, arc”). Compare Dutch regenboog, English rainbow, Yiddish רעגנבויגן (regnboygn), Danish regnbue, Icelandic regnbogi.
köken: Etymology tree Arabic قَوْس (qaws) Arabic قُزَح (quzaḥ) Arabic قَوْس قُزَح From قَوْس (qaws) + قُزَح (quzaḥ). Literally, “bow of Quzah”, named after Quzah, a pre-Islamic Arab god of weather.
köken: Usually considered to be from Persian کمر (kamar, “arch”) + Arabic (قَوْس) قُزَح ((qaws) quzaḥ, “rainbow”). The word was then reanalyzed and reshaped as кемпір (kempır, “grandma”) + қосақ (qosaq, “a yoke for goats or sheep”) due to the folk etymology. However, note similar formations in Turkic languages: Kyrgyz жез кемпирдин көгөнү (jez kempirdin kögönü, “lit. the copper grandma's (sheep/goat)…
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yā(y). Cognate with Kazakh жай (jai), Kumyk жая (jaya), Azerbaijani yay, Turkish yay, Turkmen ýāý, Uzbek yoy, Shor чачақ, Tuvan ча (ça), Western Yugur ya (“arrow”), etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch regenboge, from Old Dutch *reganbogo, from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô (“rainbow”), equivalent to regen (“rain”) + boog (“bow”).
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 므〮지게〮 (Yale: múcìkéy). Equivalent to 물 (mul, “water”) + 지게 (jige, “A-frame carrier”).
köken: From Sanskrit इन्द्रधनुस् (indradhanus), equal to इंद्र (indra, “Indra, god of thunder”) + धनुष (dhanuṣ, “bow, arc”), literally “the bow of Indra”.
rainbow (optical phenomenon) · stave (narrow strip of wood)
çekim: çoğul duhy · tamlayan duhy
köken: Inherited from Old Czech duha, from Proto-Slavic *dǫga (compare Greater Polish dęga "wale").
Etimoloji
Commonly believed to be from bahag (“loincloth”) + hari (“king”). See also Kapampangan pinanari, Central Bikol hablondawani, Malay benang raja, and Baram Kayan bah alan. For this etymology, scholars have alternative suggestions where the latter component may be from Malay hari (“day”), according to Wolff (1976), or from Sanskrit हरि (hari, “the sun”), according to Potet (2016). However, Zorc…