köken: From Middle High German schâf, from Old High German scāf. Akin to Bavarian Schåf, Luxembourgish Schof, Hunsrik Schof, German Low German Schaap, Dutch schaap, Afrikaans skaap, English sheep, and West Frisian skiep. See sheep for more.
lamb (mammal) · a colt of 6-7 months of age (mammal) · young ignorant person, naive, being born yesterday
çekim: çoğul خِرْفَان · tamlayan خَرُوفٍ
köken: From the root خ ر ف (ḵ r f), from which particularly خَرِيف (ḵarīf, “autumn; a year, one complete agricultural cycle”), meaning a lamb or colt that has lived long enough to pasture on the produce of this season or born in this season, or one year old.
köken: Cognate with Old Norse and Icelandic baggi, Old Norse bǫggr, Middle English bagge. The hypothesis for the shift in sense from "bag" to "ram" is by reference to the testicles of an unneutered ram. Doublet of bagage and packe.
sheep · mutton, lamb (meat) · sheep (person who unquestioningly accepts as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopts popular opinion as their own without scrutiny)
çekim: çoğul birkák
köken: First attested in 1347. Of debated origin: * A native word. * Borrowed from Czech.
köken: From Proto-Italic *arjēts ~ *erjēts (compare Umbrian 𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌄𐌕𐌖 (erietu)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“young domesticated caprine”). Cognate with Old Irish heirp, erb (“kid”), Ancient Greek ἔριφος (ériphos, “kid”), displaying a different suffix, and perhaps Old Armenian որոջ (oroǰ, “lamb”), երինջ (erinǰ, “heifer”). However, as the cognates demonstrate, this has the characteristics…
piston · stamp (the tool) · a mark on one's reputation
çekim: çoğul stempler
köken: From Middle Low German stempel, from the verb stampen, from Old Saxon *stampōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stampōn, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną (“to squeeze, compress”).