köken: From Middle High German alb, alp, from Old High German alp, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós. Doublet of Elf, borrowed from English later.
alif (the letter ا, the first letter of the Persian and Arabic abjads) · something or someone erect and tall like the letter ا; (in particular) the beautiful, slender stature of the beloved
köken: Borrowed from Arabic أَلِف (ʔalif).
ما کهایم اندر جهان پیچ پیچ چون الف او خود چه دارد هیچ هیچ
نیست بر لوحِ دلم جز الفِ قامتِ دوست چه کنم حرفِ دگر یاد نداد استادم
dwarf (person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body) · dwarf (animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort) · dwarf, dwarf star (star of relatively small size)
çekim: çoğul νάνοι · tamlayan νάνου
köken: From Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos).
aile: λευκός νάνος
Λευκός νάνος. — Beyaz cüce.
Ο Τύριον Λάννιστερ στο «Game of Thrones» είναι νάνος.
köken: First attested in the Bak Tongsa eonhae (朴通事諺解 / 박통사언해), 1677, as Early Modern Korean 난장이 (Yale: nancang.i). Possibly equivalent to 낮- (nat-, “low”) + -은 (-eun) + -쟁이 (-jaeng'i).
A kind of spirit; haltija. · elf (mythical, supernatural being)
çekim: çoğul haltiat · tamlayan haltian
köken: An archaic spelling of haltija. The sense “elf” was probably first used by Finnish translator Kersti Juva when translating the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.