secretary (male or unspecified sex) · official of an organization · high-ranking member in the Central committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
secretary (a person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work) · secretary (a managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations)
çekim: çoğul γραμματείς · tamlayan γραμματέα
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús).
köken: Etymology tree Latin librarius Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -olus Latin librāriolus From librarius (“of books”) + -olus.
minister (politician who heads a ministry) · queen (a chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful) · bishop (the chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝)
çekim: çoğul menteri-menteri
köken: From Malay menteri, from Sanskrit मन्त्री (mantrī). Doublet of mandarin, manti, and mantri. The chess piece sense is a semantic loan from Arabic وزير.
aile: bermenteri, kementerian, menteri ad interim, menteri ex officio, menteri keuangan, menteri koordinator, menteri muda, menteri negara, menteri pertama, dewan menteri
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 秘書, Chinese 秘書 /秘书 (mìshū, “non-communist secretary”). Compare thư kí (“non-communist secretary”). Vietnamese uses an opposite distinction to Chinese's as to whether the secretary in question works for the communist government or not.