köken: Inherited from Old French poudre, poldre, from Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).
aile: comme une traînée de poudre, faire de la poudre, faire parler la poudre, lait en poudre, mettre le feu aux poudres, ne pas avoir inventé la poudre, poudre à canon, poudre à laver, poudre à lessiver, poudre aux yeux
dust (fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects) · powder, dust (fine particles of a dry substance) · fuck, screw (sexual intercourse)
çekim: çoğul polvos
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish polvos (singular), from Vulgar Latin *pulvus, neuter form derived from Classical Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare English pulverise.
aile: azúcar en polvo, de aquellos polvos, estos lodos, despolvar, echar un polvo, empolvar, guardapolvo, hecho polvo, leche en polvo, morder el polvo, oro en polvo
¿Dónde están Pedro y su cerda? ( ) Han salido al jardín, seguro. ( ) Ven, Roberto, que vamos a ver un polvo en primer plano.
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прахъ (praxŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-. Doublet of по́рох (pórox), the inherited East Slavic form.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas Proto-Iranian *Hhúškah Persian خشک Inherited from Proto-Iranian *Hhúškah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- + *-kos. Cognate with Sanskrit शुष्क (śuṣka).
powder · dust (fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects) · cocaine
çekim: çoğul pós
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese poo, from Vulgar Latin *pulus, from earlier *pulvus n, from Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare Galician po, Spanish polvo.
aile: antipó, aspirador de pó, em pó, empoar, pó de perlimpimpim, poeira, pozinho, só o pó, só o pó da rabiola
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447. as connective form ᄀᆞᆯㅇ (kolG). Also attested in the Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong eonhae (妙法蓮華經諺解 / 묘법연화경언해), 1463. as Middle Korean ᄀᆞᄅᆞ (kolo), from Old Korean *kʌlk (*kʌlk) (compare dialectal forms 가리 (gari, Gyeongsang/Jeonnam), 갈리 (galli, Gyeongsang), 갈루 (gallu, Hwanghae), 갈기 (galgi, Hamgyeong/Gangwon) and Jeju ᄀᆞ루 (gawru)). Compare also…
köken: From earlier prah, from Old Church Slavonic прахъ (praxŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-. Compare Serbo-Croatian prah, also Megleno-Romanian prau.
dust · powder · ashes (human or animal remains after cremation)
çekim: çoğul porok
köken: Uncertain. Perhaps from a Proto-Uralic *porɜ (“dust, sand”), but the absence of the expected sound change *p > *f is hard to explain. Compare with Finnish poro (“burning ash, coarse dust, debris”) and Northern Mansi порс (pors, “garbage, waste, dust”).
Cognate with Tamil பொடி (poṭi, “to be broken to pieces (as rice), become pulverized; powder”), Kannada ಪುಡಿ (puḍi), Tulu ಪೊಡಿ (poḍi), and Malayalam പൊടി (poṭi).