strong; powerful · (informal) skilled, proficient, successful, sometimes translated "good" (often used in reference to academic subjects) · who can count on
çekim: çoğul forts
eş: ferme, grand, gros, robuste
zıt: faible
köken: Inherited from Old French fort, from Latin fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis.
aile: à plus forte raison, au prix fort, c'est plus fort que moi, employer la manière forte, esprit fort, faire fort, fort comme un bœuf, fort comme un Turc, fort de café, haut et fort
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin altus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. The form alto represents a pronunciation influenced by the most learned layers of the language, and is not the normal phonetic result expected in a naturally inherited word. Cf. the now archaic form oto, which was used more often in Old Spanish and is the form of the word that was completely popularly inherited,…
aile: Alta Austria, Alta California, alta costura, alta danza, Alta Edad Media, alta fidelidad, alta gama, alta mar, alta montaña, alta tecnología
hard, firm · violent (involving extreme force or motion) · fast
çekim: karşılaştırma daha bərk · üstünlük ən bərk
köken: From Proto-Turkic *berk (“mighty”). Cognate with Turkmen and Turkish berk, Chuvash парка (park̬a, “hard, healthy”), Yakut бэрт (bert, “great, excellent”), etc.
köken: From *küčlüg "strong" (compare Old Turkic 𐰛𐰈𐰲𐰠𐰈𐰏 (küčlüg, “strong, mighty”)), from Proto-Common Turkic *kǖč (“force”) + +lüg "affix of possession or quality". Synchronously, equivalent to көс (kös) + -лө (-lö). Cognate with Tatar көчле (köçle), Crimean Tatar küçlü, Uzbek kuchli, Uyghur كۈچلۈك (küchlük), Turkmen güýçli, Turkish güçlü (“strong”), etc. See more cognates at көстө (köstö).
Борон Урал арты башҡорттары илендә бик көслө батыр йәшәгән.
çekim: karşılaştırma mais alto · üstünlük o mais alto
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese alto, from Latin altus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. This form is likely a semi-learned term, or was influenced by learned elements of the language and uses such an orthography, as with Galician and Spanish alto (which have popularly inherited variants outo and oto, respectively). There was once likely an *outo in Old Galician-Portuguese that is not…
strong (capable of producing great physical force) · strong (capable of withstanding great physical force) · strong (having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient)
çekim: karşılaştırma erősebb · üstünlük legerősebb
zıt: gyenge
köken: erő (“power, force”) + -s (adjective-forming suffix)