to pledge, commit · to hire, sign, snap up · to involve
çekim: geçmiş engagé · ortaç engagé · şimdiki engage · ulaç engageant
köken: From Middle French, from Old French engagier (“to pawn, make a pledge, plight”), from en- + gage (“pledge”), from Late Latin vadium (“pledge”), from Frankish *wadja (“pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *wadjō, *wadją (“pledge, guarantee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“guarantee, bail”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wedde (“property, pay”), Old High German wetti (“collateral, security agreement”),…
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (glwb' /graw/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *grabʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬡 (gar^əβ, “to seize”), Sanskrit ग्रभ् (grabh), English grab. Related to گرفتن (gereftan, “to take”).
promise, pledge · rising star, emerging talent, promising talent (person) · nomination whist, oh well (card game in which one aims to winning exactly the bid number of tricks)
köken: Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- or *peyḱ-; others refer it to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fasten, fix”); its meaning perhaps being "something pinned/fixed/retained (as pledge)".