duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae) · mallard; the most common duck species in the area, thought of as the typical duck · Citroën 2CV (an economy car produced by the French company Citroën)
çekim: çoğul Enten · tamlayan Enten
eş: Falschmeldung, Zeitungsente, Urinflasche
köken: From Middle High German ente, confluence of (1.) the plural and oblique singular of ant and (2.) the Old High German variant enita, both from older anut, from Proto-West Germanic *anad. Cognate with Dutch eend. The sense “canard” (mid-19th c.) is a calque of French canard, but also ties in with the expression blaue Enten (“lies, humbug”, literally “blue ducks”, since 15th c.). The sense “Citroën…
köken: Inherited from Middle French canard, from Old French canart, quanart (“duck”), from cane (“female duck", also "boat”), perhaps ultimately from the same imitative root as caner (“to cackle, prattle”) (although caner is attested later than canart) or from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Frankish *kanō (“boat, floating vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”), from…
aile: canard boiteux, canard brun, canard d'Amérique, canard siffleur, canardage, canarder, canardière, faire le canard, froid de canard, ne pas casser trois pattes à un canard
C'est un canard ? — Ördek mi?
Le pauvre canard en eut assez de toutes ces railleries et il décida de s'en aller.
Les canards eurent là une belle occasion de pondre des oeufs de toute couleur.
köken: From Middle Dutch ent, eent, from Old Dutch ened, from Proto-West Germanic *anad, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts. Cognate with German Ente. The sense “Citroën 2CV” is shared with German Ente.
duck (any aquatic bird of the family Anatidae) · drake (male duck) · a naive person
çekim: çoğul patos
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic بَطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish pato and Swahili bata.
aile: cair como um patinho, mudar de pato para ganso, pagar o pato, patinho
Isto é um pato morto. — Buradaki ölü ördek.
Yunancaκάνω πατητή, νήσσα, ουρητήριο, πάπια, σκύβω το κεφάλι, το κεφάλι σου στη γούρνα! (dişil) /ˈni.sa/
synonym of the modern πάπια (pápia, “duck”)
çekim: çoğul νήσσες · tamlayan νήσσας
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νῆσσα (nêssa), Ionic form of νῆττα (nêtta).
aile: νησσίδες
Αυτό είναι πάπια. — Bu ördek.
Occurs only in the quasi-Katharevousa set phrase of unknown origin:
ποιώ την νήσσαν or ποιούμαι την νήσσαν (poioúmai tin níssan, “to feign ignorance”) synonym of the modern κάνω την πάπια
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 올〮히 (Yale: wólhì). The dialectal evidence suggests that Old Korean had /k/ instead of /h/; compare Gyeongsang Korean 올기 (olgi) and 올개이 (olgaei).
köken: Inherited from Old Polish kaczka, from Proto-Slavic *kačьka, a West Slavic innovation of onomatopoeic origin (for the duck's cry, compare English quack for a similar formation) which replaced Proto-Slavic *ǫtь (“duck”) in West Slavic. Cognates include Czech kachna, kačka, and Slovak kačka, kačica.
aile: kaczka dziennikarska, puszczać kaczki, spływać jak po kaczce
duck (Anatinae) · canard (false or misleading report or story)
çekim: çoğul ænder · tamlayan ands
köken: Inherited from Old Norse ǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, cognate with German Ente, Dutch eend. The Germanic noun derives from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”), which is also the source of Latin anas, Ancient Greek νῆττα (nêtta), Lithuanian ántis, Sanskrit आति (ātí). The sense of "false story" is a semantic loan from French canard.