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.
köken: Borrowed from Italian golfo, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin colfus, culfus, alteration of colpus, from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos). Doublet of gouffre.
aile: golfe de Gabès, golfe de Gascogne, golfe du Lion, golfe du Mexique
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin colfus, colphus, culfus, alteration of colpus following hypercorrection of the popular pronunciation of Latin 'ph' as 'p', itself from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos).
aile: golfo de América, golfo de Botnia, golfo de Finlandia, golfo de México, golfo de Tailandia, golfo Pérsico, Golfo San Matías, pedir cotufas en el golfo
köken: From *qoltuq "armpit". Note that Chuvash and Sakha do not present any traces of this etymon, and use a different term for "armpit". Cognate with Kazakh қолтық (qoltyq, “armpit”), Kyrgyz колтук (koltuk, “armpit”), Uzbek qoʻltiq (“armpit”), Uyghur قولتۇق (qoltuq, “armpit”), Khakas холтых (xoltıx, “armpit”), Tuvan колдук (kolduk, “armpit”), Turkish koltuk (“armchair”), Turkish koltuk altı…
a broad, smoothly curved indentation in a coastline; a bay, a gulf, a bight · a cove (when a sheltered bukt – see also vik) · a more or less circular bend (in a trajectory or something long and narrow)
bay, cove, gulf (body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land) · bald spot in the shape of one of two depressions above the forehead · lay-by (widening of a roadway for some length at the expense of a sidewalk or shoulder, serving as a stop or parking space)
çekim: çoğul zatoki · tamlayan zatoki
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *zatoka Polish zatoka Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zatoka.
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…
a bent surface; a curve, fold, hollow · the hanging fold of a toga over the breast; a pocket, lap · a garment
çekim: çoğul sinūs · tamlayan sinūs
köken: Inherited from Proto-Italic *sinus, from Proto-Indo-European *sinos. Akin to Albanian gji (“breast, bosom”). The mathematical sense “chord of an arc, sine” was introduced in the 12th century by Gherardo of Cremona as a semantic loan from Arabic جِيبَ (jība, “chord, sine”) (ultimately a loan from Sanskrit ज्या (jyā, “bowstring”)) by confusion with جَيْب (jayb, “bosom, fold in a garment”).
aile: sinuō, sinuōsus
[…] ‘comitēs, accēdite’ dīxit
Quī cum sedēns ad mēnsam nōn habēret ad manum, ubi oblātum sibi mūnus repōneret, mīsit hoc in sinum sibi.
Est in sēcessū longō locus: īnsula portum efficit obiectū laterum, quibus omnis ab altō
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”).