köken: From Middle High German lāge (“state of lying, reclining; esp. in ambush; situation; storehouse”), from Old High German lāga (“state of lying; ambush”). By surface analysis, deverbal from liegen. Related to Lager (“storeroom; camp”), Liege f (“daybed”). Compare English lie as in the lie of the land.
capacity (maximum number of people a public place e.g. cinema, theatre, can hold) · graduation mark (mark on a container to show the volume held) · gauging (agent noun of "gauge")
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Iranian *wi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwas- Proto-Iranian *Hwah- Proto-Iranian *wi-Hwah- Middle Persian gyʾg (gyāg) Persian جا Inherited from Middle Persian gyʾg (gyāg, “place”), from Proto-Iranian *wi-Hwah-, from *wi- + *Hwah- (“to dwell”).
earth · land · land; real estate or landed property
çekim: çoğul ерҙәр · tamlayan ерҙең
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yẹr (“earth; land”). Cognate with Tatar җир (cir), Kazakh жер (jer), Kyrgyz жер (jer), Southern Altai јер (ǰer), Uzbek yer, Turkish yer (“land; earth”), etc.
a room, physical chamber in a building · a living room · a special, more luxurious living room (formerly) reserved for use on Sundays and holidays, found in old houses that were inhabited by relatively affluent people
çekim: çoğul kamers
eş: ruimte, vertrek
köken: From Middle Dutch cāmere (“room, barn, house”), from Old Dutch *kamara, from Latin camera (“room, vault”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”).
a position (same location/orientation duality as in English); a location, a site · a situation, a state · an opportunity (from notion of an (implied good) situation)
çekim: çoğul lägen · tamlayan läges
köken: Related to ligga (“to lie”) and lägga (“to lay”), like German Lage.
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”.