bay; gulf; bight · niche, especially one that is wide rather than deep; a slight recess
çekim: çoğul Buchten · tamlayan Buchten
eş: Bai, Busen, Golf, Meerbusen, Meeresbusen, Wiek
köken: 17th century, from Low German, from Middle Low German bucht, from Old Saxon buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. Cognate with Dutch bocht, English bight.
handle · excuse, pretext · curve or bend (in a river)
çekim: çoğul anse
köken: Probably from Proto-Germanic *ansijō (“loop, handle”) mixed with *asa, inherited from Latin ānsa (“handle”), perhaps also formally influenced by the Latin in the literary language. Cf. German Öse (“eyelet”), Romansh ansa, onsa (“eyelet”); contrast the inherited Sardinian asa (“handle”), Lombard asa (“handle”) and aseta (“loop”), Verona Venetan asa (“soffit”), Abruzzo Neapolitan asa (“door…
a bend, curve, inflection, something not straight · a twist, change · a bight, broad curvature of a coastline, bay
çekim: çoğul bochten
köken: From Middle Dutch bocht, from Old Dutch *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. Equivalent to buigen (“to bend, bow”) + -t (“verbal noun”).
aile: bochtenwerk, bochtig, haarspeldbocht, kort door de bocht, rivierbocht
a cove (when a small, sheltered vik – see also bukt) · a gulf (when shaped like a vik, especially in the names of some gulfs that are shaped more or less like a vik)
çekim: çoğul vikar · tamlayan viks
köken: From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō.
bay, gulf, inlet (portion of a body of water extending into the land)
çekim: çoğul lahdet · tamlayan lahden
köken: From Proto-Finnic *lakci (compare Karelian laksi, Veps laht, Estonian laht, Votic lahti, Northern Sami luokta), borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Lithuanian lanktis (“arc”)). -ht- in the nominative is by analogy with the oblique case forms; the expected form laksi (compare the declension of kaksi) has fallen out of usage in the standard language, but survives in Swedish-language…
köken: From Middle Low German bocht, from Old Saxon *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”). See also English bight, Icelandic bót (Swedish bukt and German Bucht are also borrowed from Low German). The noun is derived from the verb *beuganą (“to bend”).
köken: From Proto-Albanian *grykā-, from Pre-Proto-Albanian *grūkā-, from Proto-Indo-European *gruHkeh₂, from older *gruHkó- (“turning, curving”). Orel claims from Proto-Albanian *grīwīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷriHwéh₂, from *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow”). While *-iwi- to -y- is possible, there is no explanation for the inherited -kë suffix.
köken: From Old Georgian უბე (ube), from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ube/a- (“bosom, lap”). Cognate with Mingrelian ლუბა (luba), უბა (uba), ლჷბა (ləba) and Laz უბა (uba), ობა (oba).
By surface analysis, бу́хам (búham, “to swell, to inflate (of dough); to bang”) + -та (-ta). Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary additionally compares the sense “fritters” with Romanian bucată (“piece of bread”).