hollow object; socket (like the shaft socket on a speartip) · a nest box, a birdhouse · a hulk, an old, decommissioned ship (used for storage or housing)
çekim: çoğul holkar · tamlayan holks
köken: From Old Swedish holker, from Old Norse holkr, from Proto-Germanic *hulkaz (“cavity, hollow, recess”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”). Cognate with Icelandic hólkur, English hulk.
Borrowed from Romani ʒukel (“dog”), from Sanskrit जकुट (jakuṭa, “dog”). Attested in the sense “(large) dog” since 1873, in the broader contemporary sense since 1965.