köken: 16th century as Bronzo, Brunzo, directly from Italian bronzo. Since the 18th century adapted to French bronze, itself from the Italian. Further origin uncertain; see the Italian lemma for more. The unusual pronunciation /s/ for ‹z› perhaps developed as a compromise between French /z/ and German /ts/.
any alloy based on copper; bronze · object made of this alloy
çekim: çoğul airains
köken: Inherited from Old French arain, from Vulgar Latin *arāmen, variant of Late Latin aerāmen, derived from Latin aer-. Cognate with Catalan aram, Italian rame, Occitan aram, Portuguese arame, Romanian aramă, Sardinian arràmene, Sicilian ramu, Spanish alambre (“wire”).
bronze (a naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper) · skin tan
çekim: çoğul bronzes
köken: Borrowed from French bronze, from Italian bronzo, either from Byzantine Greek βροντησίον (brontēsíon), presumably from Βρεντήσιον (Brentḗsion, “Brindisi”), known for the manufacture of bronze; or ultimately from Persian برنج (berenj, beranj, “brass”) ~ پرنگ (pereng, “copper”).
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀁𑀲 (kaṃsa), from Sanskrit कांस्य (kāṃsya, “made of bell-metal”). Sanskrit कंस (kaṃsa, “bell-metal”) would yield the same Prakrit term, but other New Indo-Aryan languages point to the long vowel.
brass (alloy of copper and zinc) · object made of brass · musical instruments made of brass
çekim: çoğul alămuri · tamlayan alame
köken: Probably from Greek μάλαμα (málama, “gold”), compare Aromanian malamã (“gold”), Megleno-Romanian amálomă (“gold”), Albanian malamë (“gold”). The loss of the initial m can be attributed to influence from aramă (“copper”). Compare also Italian lama (“metal plate”), Serbo-Croatian lama, lim.
bronze (a natural or man-made alloy of copper, usually of tin, but also with one or more other metals) · bronze (a reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze) · bronze (an object made of bronze, especially a medal, a work of art, a sculpture)
çekim: çoğul bronzok
köken: Internationalism via German Bronze. First attested in 1785.
köken: From Proto-Italic *aos, early *ajos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos. However, cf. Ringe (2017: 311, fn.32) who notes that “an alternative possibility is that [Proto-Germanic *aiz] actually reflects a preform *áys or *h₂áys, as Lat aes must (Michael Weiss, p.c.).” Cognate with English ore.