a lock (used for raising and lowering vessels in a canal or other waterway) · a mechanism that lets someone/something through, a lock · a floodgate (with a large figurative outpouring of something if opened)
köken: Borrowed from German Schleuse, from Dutch sluis, from Middle Dutch slūse, sluise, from Old Dutch slūsa, from Old French escluse, from Late Latin exclūsa, sclūsa, from Latin exclūsus.
lock: a segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels · A gate of water mechanism. · sluice
çekim: çoğul pintu-pintu air
köken: Compound of pintu (“door”) + air (“water”). Compare to Chinese 水門／水门 (“sluice, lock, floodgate”, literally “water door”).
köken: Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 港 (SV: cảng). For the vowel correspondence, compare nam vs. nôm (“South”), nạp vs. nộp (“to hand in”), hạp vs. hộp (“box”).
aile: cầu cống, chuột cống, cống rãnh, đường cống, ống cống
From Middle Dutch sluse, from Old Dutch slūsa, from Late Latin exclūsa, sclūsa (“sluice”), from exclūsus, form of exclūdō (“to shut out, to exclude”). Cognate to English sluice.