•trap (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids)
köken: From Middle High German valle, Old High German falla, deverbal from fallen. Compare typologically Czech past, Polish zapadnia, Russian западня́ (zapadnjá) (akin to па́дать (pádatʹ), па́сть (pástʹ)).
a fall (act or event of falling) · a downfall, demise
çekim: çoğul vallen
köken: From Middle Dutch val, from Old Dutch *fal, from Proto-West Germanic *fall, from Proto-Germanic *fallaz. Equivalent to a deverbal from vallen (“to fall”).
trap (a machine or other device designed to catch and sometimes kill animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body) · trap, snare, setup, trick (an arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense)
trap, snare (a spring-loaded or drop-door device (especially for catching rodents)) · trap (a skilful manoeuvre to catch sb, to lure into an unfavourable or dangerous situation) · a situation or place from which there is no way out
çekim: çoğul lõksud · tamlayan lõksu
köken: Possibly from a sound-symbolic or onomatopoeic stem, from the sound that a trap might make.
köken: From Old Irish dul (“snare, trap”), from Proto-Celtic *dolā, from Proto-Indo-European *dol-éh₂ (“reckoning, calculation, fraud”), from the root *del- (“to reckon, calculate”), see also Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “trick(ery), deceit; bait”).