köken: From Middle High German (ge)vancnisse, (ge)vencnisse (“capture, captivity”), since 15th century for the place of the captivity, equivalent to gefangen (“caught”) + -nis. More at fangen (“to catch”). Cognate with Dutch gevangenis.
köken: From Middle French cabane (14th c.), from Old Occitan cabana, from Late Latin capanna, which see. Doublet of cabine. Perhaps also related with cahute.
eş: prigione, galera, penitenziario, casa circondariale, stabilimento carcerario, casa di pena
köken: From Latin carcerem, from Proto-Italic *karkros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), in the sense of “enclosure”. Cognate to Old Catalan càrcer/carçre, Spanish cárcel and Portuguese cárcere.
köken: First attested in a medieval Turkic language in the 11th century by Mahmud al-Kashgari. Appears to have spread to modern languages via Literary Chagatai. Alternatively, may have been borrowed from or mediated by the Russian тюрьма́ (tjurʹmá). Note, however, that the etymology of the latter is disputed between Turkic and Germanic. Cognate with Kazakh түрме (türme), Kyrgyz түрмө (türmö), Southern…
prison (place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes) · chain (series of interconnected rings or links made of metal) · chain (series of interconnected things)
çekim: çoğul cadeias
eş: cadêa
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cadea, from Latin catēna, from Proto-Italic *katesnā. Compare Galician cadea, Spanish cadena, and English chain. Doublet of the direct borrowing catena.
aile: advogado de porta de cadeia, cadeia alimentar, cadeia de caracteres, cadeia montanhosa, chave de cadeia, encadear, reação em cadeia
prison (place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes) · confinement, imprisonment · prison (any restrictive environment)
çekim: çoğul börtönök
köken: First attested in 1261. Of unknown origin. Its original (now obsolete) meaning was executioner; jailer. Its modern sense probably developed by splitting from the compound word börtönház (“prison, the house of the prison guard”, literally “prison house”) [1675].