defile (very narrow path, especially in mountainous terrain) · strait; bottleneck; shortage; shortfall (difficult situation where there is a lack of ressources or space)
çekim: çoğul Engpässe · tamlayan Engpasses
köken: From eng (“narrow”) + Pass (“path through mountains”).
köken: Inherited from Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, related to Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”).
aile: arrière-gorge, avoir la gorge serrée, avoir un chat dans la gorge, coupe-gorge, égorger, faire des gorges chaudes, gorge profonde, gorger, mal de gorge, regorger
köken: From Middle Dutch clove, from Proto-West Germanic *klubō, from Proto-Germanic *klubô, related to *kleubaną (“to split, cleave”). Cognate with German Klobe, Kloben, Cimbrian khlóop.
gorge (a deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually hollowed out by water)
çekim: çoğul szurdokok
köken: From Proto-Finno-Ugric *śorɜ (“narrow”) + -dok (noun-forming suffix). The szur- stem is a variant of szor- found in the verbs szorít (“to press, grip, pinch, urge”), szorong (“to be crowded together, stressed, anxious”), etc.