ball, globe · bowl (in the game of bowls) · scoop (for example, of ice cream)
çekim: çoğul boules
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bullader.? Frankish *bollāder.? Old French bole Middle French boule French boule Inherited from Middle French boule, from Old French bole (“knob”), from either Latin bulla (“bubble”), in which case it is a doublet of bulle (which was borrowed later); or from Frankish *bollā (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”), in which case…
aile: avoir les boules, bougie à boule, boule à thé, boule à zéro, boule de cristal, boule de démolition, boule de feu, boule de geisha, boule de mammouth, boule de neige
ball, solid sphere · ball (the set of points lying within a given distance from a given point) · balloon
çekim: çoğul шары́ · tamlayan ша́ра
köken: Unclear. Perhaps related (although Vasmer found it unconvincing) to Old Church Slavonic шаръ (šarŭ, “color, paint”), Old Church Slavonic шарити (šariti, “to paint”), Old Church Slavonic шаръчи (šarŭči, “painter”), which probably derive from an early Turkic borrowing into Slavic; cf. Proto-Turkic *siarïg (“yellow, white”). In that case, the sense development might have been “color, paint” → “spot”…
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gwd /gōy/, “ball”). Cognate with Sanskrit गोल (gola), Persian گلوله (golule, “pellet; bullet”), Northern Luri گولٛاْ (goła, “pellet”), Central Kurdish گولە (gule) and گۆ (go, “ball”), Northern Kurdish gog (“ball”), Zazaki gudi (“ball; round”) and an Iranian loanword in Classical Syriac ܓܘܝܐ (gōyāʾ).
sphere (regular three-dimensional object) · sphere, domain (region in which something or someone is active)
çekim: çoğul esferas
köken: Learned borrowing from Late Latin sphēra, from Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”).
a compartment, a box, a slot (often one of several) · a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life) · clipping of fackförening (“trade union, labor union”)
çekim: çoğul facks · tamlayan facks
köken: From German Fach (“compartment, drawer”), from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”).
Hon gick med i facket
Facket hotar med att ta ut 2 000 av sina medlemmar i strejk
globe, planet (large celestial body belonging to a planetary system) · globe (planet on which people live; Earth in reference only to the planet without its gaseous envelope)
çekim: çoğul globy · tamlayan globu
eş: kula ziemska, świat, planeta, Ziemia
köken: Etymology tree French globebor. Polish glob Borrowed from French globe. Doublet of globus.
area (measure of the extent of a surface) · area, field, domain (one's field of expertise or activity) · field, discipline (specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice; e.g. in work or sciences)
çekim: çoğul alat · tamlayan alan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ala; see ala- for more. Already in Finnic, this stem, originally meaning “lower, under” was repurposed as a noun meaning “underside, lower side”, whence “area”, whence the other senses like “domain”, “field”, “sector”.