Word Origins

-noun

Derivation shown below.

Indian Urdu amir ‘lord’

Arabic al bahr ‘the sea’ = English admiral

Arabic ameeraal

Turkish amiral

French amiral

Georgian (Kartuli ena) admirali

Russian admiral

euskara (Basque) almirante

Spanish almirante

-noun

Spanish admiracion

French admiration

-verb transitive

French admirer

English admire

-noun

Spanish admirador

-adjective

Spanish admirativo

English admiring

-adjective

Spanish admisible

English admissible

-noun

Spanish admision

French admission

-verb transitive

Spanish admitir

French admettre

-noun

Spanish adolescencia

English adolescence

-noun

Spanish adolescente

English adolescent

-verb transitive

Spanish adoptar

French adopter

English adopt

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Indian Urdu qubool karna ‘accept’

Turkish kabul etmek ‘adopt’

-adjective

Spanish adoptivo

English adopted

-noun

Spanish adopcion

French adoption

English adoption

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Indian Urdu qubool karna ‘accept’

Turkish kabul etme ‘adoption’

-noun

Spanish eleccion

English election

-adjective

Indian Hindi sharm ‘bashfulness’, ‘charm’

euskara (Basque) xarmant (pronounced as sharmant) ‘adorable’

-adverb

Indian Hindi sharm ‘bashfulness’, ‘charm’

euskara (Basque) xarmantki (pronounced as sharmantki) ‘adorably’

-verb transitive

Spanish adorar

French adorer

English adore

-noun

Spanish adrenalina

-noun

Spanish adulto

French adulte

-noun

Spanish educacion de los adultos

-verb transitive

euskara (Basque) faltsutu

                            faltsuztatu

English falsify

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Spanish adulterar

English adulterate

-noun

euskara (Basque) faltsuztapen

Spanish falsificacion

English falsification

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Spanish adulteracion

-noun

euskara (Basque) adulteriogile (gizon)

Spanish adultero

-noun

euskara (Basque) adulteriogile (emakume)

-noun

euskara (Basque) adulterio

Spanish adulterio

English adultery

-noun

Russian avans

Spanish avance

English advance

advance guard -noun

Russian avangard

English advance guard

-noun

Indian Tamil palham ‘fruit’

Indian Sanskrit phalam ‘advantage’

lh is our symbol for one of the two cerebral sounds unique to Indian languages. Try to pronounce l with your tongue touching the roof of you mouth, not back of your teeth.

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French avantage

English advantage

-noun

Russian aventyura

Spanish aventura

French aventure

English adventure

-noun

Russian aventyurist

Spanish aventuroro

English adventurer