köken: Etymology tree Latin asinus Old French asne Middle French asne French âne Inherited from Middle French asne, from Old French asne, from Latin asinus.
aile: âne bâté, ânerie, ânesse, ânier, asinin, bander comme un âne, bonnet d'âne, concombre d'âne, coup de pied de l'âne, dos d'âne
donkey, ass · fool · in compounds meaning big, large
çekim: çoğul خرها
eş: الاغ, درازگوش
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (HMRA /xar/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (hl /xar/, “donkey, ass”), from Proto-Iranian *xárah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kʰáras. The meaning of something large is presumed to be from the weight-measure خروار (xar-vâr), originally a donkey-load but later even too heavy for a donkey to carry.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai ایشاک (ešäk), from Proto-Turkic *eĺčgek. cognates Cognate with Turkish and Crimean Tatar eşek, Azerbaijani eşşək, and Kazakh есек (esek). Also compare Russian ишак (išak), a Turkic borrowing.
person with moderate learning difficulties · idiot, moron, imbecile
çekim: çoğul βλάκες · tamlayan βλάκα
eş: χαζός, ανόητος, κουτός, κουτορνίθι, μπούφος
zıt: έξυπνος
köken: Inherited from Ancient Greek βλάξ (bláx, “soft”) from the accusative singular τὸν (tòn) βλάκα (bláka), from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”) (through *μλάξ [mláx] > *μβλάξ [mbláx]). Cognates include Latin mollis (“soft, mild”), Sanskrit मृदु (mṛdú, “soft, mild, weak”) and English mild.
köken: Appears to be an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 驢馬 /驴马, first attested in Japanese in the late 1400s. While the donkey has been known in Japan since antiquity, it seems it was never an important part of Japanese culture. The oldest likely mention was of an 兎馬 (usagiuma, literally “rabbit-horse”), interpreted as referring to a donkey for their longer ears.
köken: Probably a back-formation from arslet, definite form of arsel, with the same meaning, from an Old Swedish contraction of ars (cognate with English arse) + hol, hul (cognate with English hole), identical to English arsehole.
köken: Etymology tree Sanskrit गर्दभ (gardabha) Prakrit 𑀕𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀳 (gaddaha) Hindi गधा Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀳 (gaddaha), from Sanskrit गर्दभ (gardabha).
donkey, ass (Equus asinus) · donkey, stupid person
çekim: çoğul aasit · tamlayan aasin
köken: Borrowed from Old Swedish asne or asni (Swedish åsna), from Old French asne, from Latin asinus. Attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552).
köken: From alteration of the earlier variant asîn or asân (used from the 16th to 18th centuries), itself from Latin asinus. Some writers in the 19th century attempted to revive it under a more Latinized form.
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German esel, from Old Saxon esil, from Proto-West Germanic *asil, from Latin asellus. Largely replaced the inherited Old Norse asni.