köken: Of uncertain chain of etymology; once thought to be a borrowing from Aramaic, but deemed unlikely as had the word been borrowed from Biblical Hebrew חוֹתָם (ḥōtām) or Aramaic חוֹתָמָא (ḥōtāmā) / ܚܵܘܬܵܡܵܐ (ḥāwtāmā, “seal”), it would probably have started with a /ḥ/, unless the Arabic has been borrowed from it in the incipient 1st millennium BC or earlier when Aramaic still distinguished the…
köken: Cognate with Central Kurdish ژەنگ (jeng), Northern Kurdish jeng, Baluchi زنگ (zang), and with Iranian borrowings in Old Armenian ժանգ (žang), and Caucasian languages such as Georgian ჟანგი (žangi), ჯანგი (ǯangi). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *geng- (“lump”) and cognate with Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros, “tubercular disease in olive-trees”). For the sense development compare the…
ring · yuzuk (a game played at weddings and on special days where a person hides a ring or pocket knife in their hand and another person guesses which hand it is in)
çekim: çoğul ýüzükler · tamlayan ýüzügüň
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yüŕük (“ring”). Cognate to Turkish yüzük (“ring”).
ring (round piece of metal worn around the finger) · anus; ringpiece · annulus
çekim: çoğul anéis
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese anel, borrowed from Old Occitan anel, from Latin ānellus (“finger ring”). Doublet of elo, which was inherited. Cognates include Catalan anell, French anneau, Italian anello, Spanish anillo. Sense 2 likely comes from the round form of the anus.
to encircle; to surround; to place things around something
çekim: geçmiş 囲んだ
köken: Pronounced かくむ (kakumu) in the Nara period (奈(な)良(ら)時(じ)代(だい) (Nara jidai), 710–794 CE), it was alternately pronounced かこむ (kakomu) since the middle of the Heian period (平(へい)安(あん)時(じ)代(だい) (Heian jidai), 794–1185 CE). The shift to かこむ (kakomu) is likely due to influence from the verb 囲(かこ)う (kakou), of similar meaning. An alternate pronunciation かごむ (kagomu), with the medial /k/ becoming voiced…
köken: From Sanskrit अङ्गुष्ठिका (aṅguṣṭhikā), from अङ्गुष्ठ (aṅguṣṭha, “thumb”), whence also अंगूठा (aṅgūṭhā). Cognate with Bengali আঙ্গুটি (aṅguṭi), আংটি (aṅṭi) and Marathi अंगठी (aṅgṭhī).
Inherited from Middle French anneau, from Old French anel, from Latin ānellus, diminutive of ānus (“ring”). Cognates in regional French languages: Franco-Provençal anèu, Gallo anè, aniao, anot Norman anné, Occitan anèl, Picard èniau. Cognates with Catalan anell, Corsican anellu, Galician anel, Italian anello, Portuguese anel, Romanian inel, Sicilian aneḍḍu, Spanish anillo.