köken: Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin sablum, from Latin sabulum, alternative form of sabulō. Compare sablon, which was used more often in Old French. Compare Italian sabbia, Occitan sabla.
aile: bac à sable, banc de sable, chat des sables, château de sable, grain de sable, jeu bac à sable, marchand de sable, sablage, sable mouvant, sabler
godfather of one's child · father of one's godchild · a friend in high places, one's benefactor
çekim: çoğul кумовья́ · tamlayan ку́ма
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kumъ, back-formation from *kuma (“godmother”), from Balkan Vulgar Latin *cómmater, from Latin compater (“godfather”).
Qom (a city in Iran, the seat of Qom County's Central District and the capital of Qom Province, a shrine city and center of Shi'ite seminarian learning) · Qom (a county of Iran, around the city) · Qom (a province of Iran)
köken: Immediately from Arabic, since the city was founded by Arabs in 685 and because ق (q) does not occur in native Persian words. The 988 book History of Qum offers several etymologies: * An Arabic corruption of Classical Persian کُومَه (kūma, “shed; hut”), since the site of the city was previously used by shepherds for shelter. This may be the most plausible. * An Arabic corruption of the nearby…
köken: From Middle Dutch sant, from Old Dutch *sant, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *sandaz. Compare German Sand, Low German Sand, West Frisian sand, English sand, Danish sand.
rubber (pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree) · short for 消しゴム (keshi-gomu, “rubber (eraser)”) · short for ヘアゴム (hea-gomu, “hair tie, scrunchie”)
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 몰애〮 (Yale: mwòlGáy), from pre-Middle Korean ⟨*mwòlkáy⟩, a form which still survives in eastern dialects as 몰개 (molgae). The diverse dialectal forms suggest that the Middle Korean form is a secondary suffixed word, with the ancestral root being perhaps ⟨*mwol⟩; compare Jeolla Korean 모새 (mosae, “sand”), 모살 (mosal, “sand”).…
köken: Etymology tree Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮𑀼𑀆 (vāluā) Hindi बालू Inherited from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮𑀼𑀆 (vāluā), from Sanskrit वालुका (vālukā). Cognate with Marathi वाळू (vāḷū).
sand (fine-grained, finely-ground rock: according to the technical definition, with a grain size between 0.063 and 2.0 millimetres) · gravel (small fragments of rock used to prevent slippery pavement conditions)
çekim: çoğul hiekat · tamlayan hiekan
köken: Derived from hieta, either as hieta + -ikka (< *hiedikka), or as a blend of hieta + hiukka; may be influenced by hiukka in any case. Originally primarily an Eastern Finnish word; considered Savonian by Juslenius (1745). Cognate with Karelian hiekka and Livvi hiekku.
köken: Inherited from Latin arēna. Compare Italian arena, rena, Sicilian rina, Portuguese areia, Aromanian arinã. Now a regional term, mostly replaced by nisip - a Slavic borrowing. Compare arenă, a borrowed doublet.
sand (rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt, forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction)
çekim: çoğul homokok
köken: A very old borrowing from a Turkic language, compare Southern Altai кумак (kumak, “sand”), Yakut кумах (kumaq, “sand”), from Proto-Turkic *kum (“sand”).