chance · luck · Immigrant of non-European heritage, short for "chance pour la France".
çekim: çoğul chances
eş: bol, chatte, choune, concours heureux de circonstances, cul, fortune
zıt: adversité, guigne, malchance, malheur
köken: From Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), inherited from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”). Doublet of cadence, a borrowing from Italian.
aile: au petit bonheur la chance, avoir de la chance, bonne chance, chance de cocu, chanceux, coup de chance, égalité des chances, la faute à pas de chance, malchanceux, mettre toutes les chances de son côté
Il y a des fortes chances que vos neurones fonctionnent bien
possibility (the quality of being possible) · potential (a currently unrealized ability) · possibility (an option or choice, usually used in context with future events)
çekim: çoğul δυνατότητες · tamlayan δυνατότητας
köken: Learnedly from δυνατός (dynatós) + -ότητα (-ótita), a calque of French possibilité.
alternative (solution that one can choose over another) · disjunction (proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator)
possibility, chance, probability, likelihood (the extent to which something is possible; the quality of being possible) · possibility, choice (that which is possible) · chance, opportunity, prospect (opportunity, possibility or probability)
çekim: çoğul mahdollisuudet · tamlayan mahdollisuuden
köken: mahdollinen (“possible”) + -uus (“-ity, -ness”)
occasion, opportunity, chance · occasion (the time when something happens) · time, occasion, instance, occurrence (see also the examples at alkalommal)
çekim: çoğul alkalmak
köken: From the obsolete alk (“conformity, adaptation, adjustment to something”) + -alom (noun-forming suffix). The original stem is probably related to Hungarian alkot (“to create”) and alku (“deal”), and it may also be related to Hungarian olt (“to vaccinate”), which may derive from Proto-Uralic *alɜ- (“to add/fasten to something, fit”).
köken: Ultimately from Latin optiō, altered with the suffix ־ציה (tzia). The financial term came through English option.
Etimoloji
From Middle High German mügelichheit, mügelichkeit. By surface analysis, möglich (“possible”) + -keit (“-ness, -ity”). Compare Alemannic German Möglichkeit, Luxembourgish Méiglechkeet, Dutch mogelijkheid, Swedish möjlighet.