köken: Inherited from Middle French fauve, from Old French falve, from Late Latin falvus, a borrowing from Frankish *falu, *falw- (compare Dutch vaal, English fallow and German falb), from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (“pale, grey”). The adjectival sense of "savage, fierce" comes from the noun sense "wild animal," which is in turn a shortening of bête au pelage fauve (“animal with tawny fur”).
lion · faucet, tap · tiger (sometimes also applied to the leopard)
çekim: çoğul شیرها
köken: From Middle Persian 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr /šagr, šēr/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”). Etymology 1, noun sense 2 is from the fact that the first taps in Iran looked like lion heads.
aile: تولهشیر, شیر دریایی, شیر شدن, شیر و خورشید, شیر کردن, شیر کوهی, شیر یا خط, شیرافکن, شیراوژن, شیردار
چون رسد آن جا ببیند گرگ و شیر عمر ضایع راه دور و روز دیر
köken: Inherited from Chagatai ارسلان (ʾarslān /ʾarslān/), from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan. Cognate with Uyghur ئارسلان / arslan / арслан. Compare also Kazakh ارىستان / арыстан (arystan), Kyrgyz ارستان / арстан (arstan); Turkish aslan and arslan, etc.
köken: Related to Turkish aslan, from Old Turkic arslan. Kipchak form replaced original Chuvash-Bulgharic one: услан, that's related to Russian: уруслан, руслан and Hungarian oroszlán.
köken: From Byzantine Greek λιοντάρι(ν) (liontári(n)), from earlier λεοντάριν (leontárin), from Koine Greek λεοντάριον (leontárion), diminutive of Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).
köken: Inherited from Old Czech lev, from Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from a Germanic source (possibly Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰 (laiwa)). Can ultimately be traced back to Latin leō, which comes from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), a word that is possibly a Semitic or an Akkadian borrowing.