box (a container) · tin, can · ellipsis of boîte de nuit (“club, nightclub”)
çekim: çoğul boîtes
eş: caisse, coffret
köken: Inherited from Old French boiste, from Vulgar Latin *buxita, from Late Latin buxis, from a conflation of Latin pyxis (“small box”) and buxus (“box tree”). Doublet of box.
aile: boîte à camembert, boîte à cigare, boîte à gants, boîte à musique, boîte à outils, boîte à suggestions, boîte automatique, boîte aux lettres, boîte crânienne, boîte CVT
box (Buxus sempervirens) · Metaphor for the beloved's graceful figure.
çekim: çoğul شمشادها
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šmšʾl /šimšār/), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫܡܫܪܐ (šemšārā, šamšārā), ܫܡܫܛ (šemšaṭ, “boxwood”), or perhaps the other way around, ultimately of uncertain origin. Cognate with Akkadian 𒅆𒈨𒌍𒊭𒇻𒌋 (ši-meš-ša-lu-u /šimeššalû/), 𒋆𒊭𒇻𒌋 (šim-ša-lu-u /šimšalû, šimšallu/, “a tree; potentially boxwood”).
köken: Sino-Korean word from 散彈銃, from 散 (“scatter”) + 彈 (“bullet”) + 銃 (“gun”). An alternate Hanja form 霰彈銃 with identical pronunciation is also attested in literature, as 霰彈 (“shrapnel”) + 銃 (“gun”).
cube (regular polyhedron having six identical square faces) · block, cube (any object in an approximately cuboid shape) · die, dice (regular polyhedron used in games, with numbers or symbols on each side)
çekim: çoğul kockák
köken: Borrowed from a West Slavic language, probably from Czech or Slovak. Compare Czech kostka, Slovak kocka.
aile: kockás, kockázat, kockázik, kockáztat, a kocka el van vetve, fordul a kocka, kockán forog, kockára tesz, dobókocka, építőkocka
Egy 40 cm élhosszúságú kocka alakú jégtömb tömege 58,88 kg.
A kisfiú vonatozott, a húga kockákból épített várat.
Ezzel szemben 12-t csak egyféleképpen dobhatunk: úgy, hogy mindkét kockával hatost dobunk.
the evergreen box tree. · a thing made of boxwood.
çekim: çoğul buxī · tamlayan buxī
köken: Uncertain. Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box tree”) is cognate, but probably not the origin, as the tree grew in Italy and is not native to Greece or Asia Minor. Both the Latin and Greek may be from an Italian substrate language.