köken: From Middle High German ratte, from Old High German ratta, rato, from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz (“rat”); see that entry and English rat for more. Compare also Dutch rat, Swedish råtta, French rat. The consonantism ratta in Old High German (instead of *razza) is unexplained. One possible explanation is that the form was borrowed from Old Saxon ratta. The dialectal…
mouse; rat · cutie; someone cute · synonym of ماوس (māws /mâvs, “computer mouse”)
çekim: çoğul موشها
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Indo-Iranian *múHs Proto-Iranian *múHs Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/) Persian موش Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/, “mouse, rat”), from Proto-Iranian *múHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *múHs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs. Doublet of ماوس (mâvs).
rat (rodent) · mouse, vole · devious and evil person
çekim: çoğul αρουραίοι · tamlayan αρουραίου
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀρουραῖος (arouraîos, “rural, rustic”), via the phrase ἀρουραῖος μῦς (arouraîos mûs, “field mouse”), with the adjective adopting the core "rodent" sense via linguistic ellipsis, similar to the process seen with ποντίκι (pontíki, “mouse”).
a criminal, chiefly a thief or robber · a crook (dishonest, immoral, etc. person) · the culprit, the villain of the piece (the person or thing that is the cause of trouble)
çekim: çoğul bovar · tamlayan bovs
köken: From Old Swedish bōve, from Middle Low German bōve, from Proto-Germanic *bō-.
aile: miljöbov
Björnbusarna är bovar
jaga bovar
Bovar och banditer, ni som sitter här och skiter, om ni något hjärta har, lämna lite papper kvar
köken: Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *चूह (cūha) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), with further origin uncertain. Perhaps an onomatopoeic word, imitating the squeaking of a mouse.
rat (a medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus) · rat (a harmful, despicable person)
çekim: çoğul patkányok
köken: A wanderword. Via either Slovene podgána or Italian pantegana. Compare Venetan pantegàna (“rat”). Ultimately from Byzantine Greek ποντικός (pontikós), from μῦς ποντικός (mûs pontikós, “rat”, literally “pontic mouse”).