to work, labour, do a day's work · to train (for something), work on (something), study, improve (on something)
çekim: geçmiş bossé · ortaç bossé · şimdiki bosse · ulaç bossant
köken: First attested in 1878. Probably from bosse + -er (see below) with some sort of semantic shift. It has been suggested that in western France, the verb came to mean "to bend over for work"; alternately, that sailors raising an anchor was considered typical "hard work", or that the word came from the sense of "to emboss" and was originally cant used by artisans.
Toute la journée il bosse, et pour que dalle.
Je dois encore bosser (sur) mon solfège ce weekend.
Va bosser tes maths au lieu de jouer aux jeux vidéos!
a particular kind of skilled work, a practical occupation; trade, craft · profession, occupation, specialty
çekim: çoğul һөнәрҙәр · tamlayan һөнәрҙең
köken: From Persian هنر (honar, “skill; art”). Cognate with Kazakh өнер (öner), Kyrgyz өнөр (önör), Uzbek hunar, Uyghur ھۇنەر (huner), Azerbaijani hünər, Turkish hüner (“skill; art”).
to work · to work, operate, function · to do, make
köken: From *īš-le-, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *īĺč (“work”), whence ӗҫ (ĕś, “work”). Cognate with Turkish işle-, Azerbaijani işlə-, Kazakh істеу (ısteu), etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch arbeit, from Old Dutch arbeit, arbeith alongside arvit, arvith, from Proto-West Germanic *arbaidi ~ *arbaiþi, from Proto-Germanic *arbaidiz. Some commentators think that the form with -b- must be due to influence by Old High German arbeit, but this is not certain. The stop could also have to do with a secondary stress that developed early on (and the Old Dutch vowels ei vs. i…
job (economic role for which a person is paid) · use; usage (the act of using something or the way something is used) · employment (the state of being employed)
job, occupation, employment, work · pastime, activity
çekim: çoğul απασχολήσεις · tamlayan απασχόλησης
köken: From Koine Greek ἀπασχόλησις (apaskhólēsis, “interruption in an occupation”), with semantic shift. By surface analysis, απασχολώ (apascholó, “to preoccupy”) + -ση (-si).
trade (skilled practice of an occupation) · synonym of przęsło
çekim: çoğul fachy · tamlayan fachu
köken: Borrowed from German Fach, whence also Kashubian fach and Silesian fach. Ultimately (via Proto-Germanic *faką) from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Fachwerk.
From Middle Low German arbeit, from Old Saxon arvēd. Compare Norwegian Bokmål arbeid, Swedish arbete, and Faroese arbeiði. A native form of the word is found in Old Danish æruæthæ, from Old Norse erfiði (still in Swedish arvode (“salary”)).