köken: Borrowed from Lombardic bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of banca and panca. Cognate with Sicilian vancu.
köken: Borrowed from Aramaic מצטבתא (maṣṭaḇṯā), from Aramaic מצב (meṣb, “stele; a stone slab”), from Aramaic מצב (məṣab, “to erect or plant an object into the ground”), ultimately from Aramaic נצב (nəṣab, “to plant”); cognate with Classical Syriac ܡܨܛܒܬܐ (maṣṭaḇṯā) and cognate to the native root ن ص ب (n ṣ b).
stall (a small open-fronted shop) · booth (a small stall for the display and sale of goods) · newsstand (open stall where newspapers and magazines are on sale)
platform, dais (raised stage on which one can stand or sit in order to see everyone) · seat, chair, bench (usually raised) · seat, headquarters, base (chief location of a governing body or other thing)
çekim: çoğul έδρες · tamlayan έδρας
eş: βήμα, θρόνος, θώκος, καθέδρα f and see καρέκλα, έδρανο
köken: Learnedly, from Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra). For sense "headquarters", a semantic loan from French siège.
stool, step, bench · ridge (of earth formed by ploughing) · breadth of a field
çekim: çoğul scamna · tamlayan scamnī
köken: For *scabnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up, support”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá, “prop, support, pillar”).