flower, blossom (colorful, conspicuous reproductive structure(s) of an angiosperm) · plant, houseplant (plant that is grown indoors in places such as a house or office for decorative purposes) · efflorescence (formation of a powdery surface on crystals)
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian گُل (gul, “rose; flower”). Replaced native шешек (şeşek), which is now obsolete. Cognate with Bashkir гөл (göl), Kyrgyz гүл (gül), Uzbek gul, Uyghur گۈل (gül), Turkmen gül (“flower”); Turkish gül (“rose”), etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *čeček (“flower”). Cognates include Old Turkic [script needed] (čečäk), Tuvan and Southern Altai чечек (čeček), Kazakh шешек (şeşek), Uzbek chechak, Uyghur چېچەك (chëchek), Turkish, Gagauz, Crimean Tatar çiçek, Azerbaijani çiçək. The background of the metathesis *säsäk → säskä that took place in Bashkir remains yet to be explored. One possible reason for it may have been to…
köken: Borrowed from Middle High German varwe. Compare modern German Farbe, Dutch verf, Polish barwa, Polish farba.
aile: barevník, barvitý
Chci jinou barvu.
Etimoloji
Sino-Vietnamese word from 花. The "capital" sense probably comes from the flourishes of the cursive capital letters that are commonly taught in elementary schools; even cursive lower-case letters don't have as many flourishes, which explains the distinction. The form ba is attested in some Central dialects, most notably from the placename Đông Ba. It is also attested in chữ Nôm as 芭 and 葩.