mortar (vessel for crushing) · mortar and pestle (Stößel) seen as a single tool · mortar (cannon for shells)
çekim: çoğul Mörsern · tamlayan Mörsers
köken: From Middle High German mörser, mörsære, from Old High German morsāri, from Proto-West Germanic *morsārī, alternative form of *mortārī (“mortar”). Doublet of Mörtel.
mortar (vessel used to grind ingredients) · mortar and pestle (device)
çekim: çoğul huhmaret · tamlayan huhmaren
köken: From Proto-Finnic *humar (compare Estonian uhmer), from Proto-Finno-Permic *šumare (compare Erzya човар (čovar), Eastern Mari шуар (šuar)). The medial -h- is irregular and might have developed through an itself irregular lengthening of the -u- vowel.
mortar (a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle) · mortar (fire weapon)
çekim: çoğul mozsarak
köken: From a Germanic language. Compare Middle High German morsær, German Mörser. The German word is from Latin mortārium (“mortar”). First attested in Hungarian in 1405.
From Byzantine Greek γδί(ν) (gdí(n)), from Koine Greek ἰγδίον (igdíon), diminutive of Ancient Greek ἴγδις (ígdis), of Pre-Greek origin (evidenced by cluster "-γδ-" per Beekes). Ultimate origin may be from Hurrian 𒀉𒆠 (/idki, itki/, “mortar”), from the root 𒀉 (/id-/, “to beat”). Doublet of ιγδίο (igdío).