köken: Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skapą. The form шкап (škap) is from Middle Dutch and/or Middle Low German schap (both “cupboard, cabinet, coffer”). The form шкаф (škaf) was likely influenced by the Middle High German cognate schaf (whence Polish szafa). The initial шк- seems to speak against direct borrowing from High German, where sch- was pronounced /ʃ/ early on; on the other hand compare…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmosder. Latin arma Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -ārius Latin -ārium Latin armāriumbor. Portuguese armáriobor. Hindi अलमारी Borrowed from Portuguese almario or armário, from Latin armarium (“closet, chest”), from arma (“weapons, tools”) + -ārium (“denoting a place where things are kept”).
cabinet, closet, cupboard (a piece of furniture used for storage and closed with a door) · locker (storage compartment as part of a larger storage unit) · the closet (a state of secrecy regarding one's sexual identity or similar)
çekim: çoğul kaapit · tamlayan kaapin
köken: Borrowed from Old Swedish skāp (compare modern Swedish skåp), from Middle Low German schap.
cupboard, closet, cabinet, or similar piece of furniture · coffin or casket · stripe (one of the bars on the shoulders of Israeli military uniforms to indicate junior officer ranks (with more bars indicating a higher rank))
çekim: çoğul אֲרוֹנוֹת
köken: From Proto-Semitic *ʾarān- or *ʾirān-. Cognate to Phoenician 𐤀𐤓𐤍 (ʾrn). Sense 4 is a semantic loan from English expressions like in the closet.
köken: From Malay kabinet borrowing English cabinet (“cabinet”), from Middle French cabinet, cabin, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”), of uncertain origin; possibly a metathesis of Latin canaba. Doublet of kabana and kabin.
cabinet; cupboard; wardrobe; chest; safe · something valuable and useful that is kept by people to themselves, and only shown or used in times of need to win over others; stock-in-trade · part of a subject deemed to be high-yield in exams and chosen as the focus of one's study/exam preparation
köken: Perhaps non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 廚 (SV: trù). Compare Khmer ទូ (tuu), Lao ຕູ້ (tū), Thai ตู้ (dtûu).