broom (domestic utensil used to sweep) · broom (any of several shrubs with thin, long branches)
çekim: çoğul vassouras
eş: vassourão, vassourazinha, bassoura, vassoira
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese vassoyra, from Vulgar Latin *versōria, ultimately derived from Latin verrō (“sweep”). Cognate with Galician vasoira.
aile: vassourada, vassourão, vassoura-de-bruxa, vassoura de fogo, vassourar
broom, besom (utensil for sweeping, traditionally made with a bundle of twigs or straws tied together onto a shaft, more recently with a brush at the end of a long shaft)
çekim: çoğul slotas · tamlayan slotas
köken: From an earlier verb *slot (“to slide, to slip; to wipe, to sweep”) (cf. Lithuanian šlúoti “to wipe, to sweep”), made into a second declension feminine noun in -a; the verb, in turn, came from Proto-Baltic *šlōw-, from Proto-Indo-European *slow-, *slow- (“to slide”), perhaps a parellel form of *ḱlew- (“to rinse, to clean, to slide”). From the same stem came also Latvian slaucīt (“to wipe, to…