ball, globe · bowl (in the game of bowls) · scoop (for example, of ice cream)
çekim: çoğul boules
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bullader.? Frankish *bollāder.? Old French bole Middle French boule French boule Inherited from Middle French boule, from Old French bole (“knob”), from either Latin bulla (“bubble”), in which case it is a doublet of bulle (which was borrowed later); or from Frankish *bollā (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”), in which case…
aile: avoir les boules, bougie à boule, boule à thé, boule à zéro, boule de cristal, boule de démolition, boule de feu, boule de geisha, boule de mammouth, boule de neige
ball, solid sphere · ball (the set of points lying within a given distance from a given point) · balloon
çekim: çoğul шары́ · tamlayan ша́ра
köken: Unclear. Perhaps related (although Vasmer found it unconvincing) to Old Church Slavonic шаръ (šarŭ, “color, paint”), Old Church Slavonic шарити (šariti, “to paint”), Old Church Slavonic шаръчи (šarŭči, “painter”), which probably derive from an early Turkic borrowing into Slavic; cf. Proto-Turkic *siarïg (“yellow, white”). In that case, the sense development might have been “color, paint” → “spot”…
sphere (regular three-dimensional object) · sphere, domain (region in which something or someone is active)
çekim: çoğul esferas
köken: Learned borrowing from Late Latin sphēra, from Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”).
a compartment, a box, a slot (often one of several) · a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life) · clipping of fackförening (“trade union, labor union”)
çekim: çoğul facks · tamlayan facks
köken: From German Fach (“compartment, drawer”), from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”).
Hon gick med i facket
Facket hotar med att ta ut 2 000 av sina medlemmar i strejk
area (particular geographic region; limited area, particularly a large one) · area (particular area affected by something) · area, domain (any extent, scope, or range)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Proto-West Germanic *obar Old High German obar Middle High German ober- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Proto-Germanic *skaraz Old High German scaro Middle High German schar Middle High German oberscharbor. Old Polish obszar Polish obszar Inherited from Old Polish obszar.
area (measure of the extent of a surface) · area, field, domain (one's field of expertise or activity) · field, discipline (specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice; e.g. in work or sciences)
çekim: çoğul alat · tamlayan alan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ala; see ala- for more. Already in Finnic, this stem, originally meaning “lower, under” was repurposed as a noun meaning “underside, lower side”, whence “area”, whence the other senses like “domain”, “field”, “sector”.