köken: From French alcôve f, from Spanish alcoba, from Arabic القبَة. The later final -n and masculine gender in German through association with unrelated Middle Low German koven (“stable, shed, nook”).
köken: Uncertain. Related to Sanskrit कुञ्चित (kuñcita, “curved, bent, crooked”), कुञ्चन (kuñcana, “contraction”), Old Armenian կնճիռն (knčiṙn, “knot”).
singing (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds) · chant · a bird’s song
çekim: çoğul cantos
eş: canção, cantiga
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus (“song; singing”), perfect passive participle of canō (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”). Cognate of English chant.
aile: canto coral, canto de cisne, canto de estante, canto de sereia, canto eclesiástico, canto firme, canto gregoriano
corner, nook, nook and cranny (place of angled convergence of walls, panels, etc., especially an obscure or inconspicuous one) · corner, nook (hidden or secluded spot) · corner (remote or out of the way place)
çekim: çoğul за́кутки · tamlayan за́кутка
köken: Related to кут (kut), за- (za-) + кут (kut) + -ок (-ok)
corner, nook · angle · heel (end-piece of a loaf of bread)
çekim: çoğul colțuri · tamlayan colțului
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic кольць (kolĭcĭ), from колъ (kolŭ) + -ьць (-ĭcĭ), from Proto-Slavic *kolъ. Compare Bulgarian колец (kolec), Serbo-Croatian kòlac.
corner (area in the angle between converging lines or walls) · heel (the part of the foot where it becomes leg) · heel (part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel)
çekim: çoğul sarkok
köken: From the old onomatopoeic verbal stem sar- + -ok (noun-forming suffix). See also sark.
An angle. · A corner. · A retired, unfrequented place, a nook, corner, lurking place.
çekim: çoğul angulī · tamlayan angulī
köken: From Proto-Italic *angulos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos (“joint?”), from *h₂eng- (“bend, curve”). Cognates include Sanskrit अङ्गुरि (aṅgúri, “finger, toe”), Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “crooked, curved”), Old High German enchil (“ankle, joint”), Icelandic ekkja and Old Church Slavonic ѫгълъ (ǫgŭlŭ, “angle”).