köken: 15th century, from Futter (“lining”, formerly also “sheath”) + -al. Said to have been formed after Medieval Latin fotrale, but this is sparsely attested and no earlier than the German; thus perhaps inspired by Middle French fourrel, from Old French forrel (11th c.). All words ultimately derive from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“sheath, lining”).
case (for glasses, cigars, soap, a viola) · holster (for a gun) · cover (for an umbrella)
çekim: çoğul étuis
eş: gouet
köken: Inherited from Middle French étui, from Old French estui (“case, sheath”), of uncertain origin. Possibly a derivative of Old French estuier (“keep, hold”), itself possibly from Vulgar Latin *studiāre, from Latin studium; or, more likely, of Germanic origin, related to Middle High German stūche (“cupping glass”). Compare Occitan estug, Catalan estoig, Spanish estuche, Portuguese estojo, Italian…
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian 𐫗𐫏𐫏𐫀𐫖 (nyyʾm), 𐫗𐫏𐫀𐫖 (nyʾm /niyām/). Based on an Old Persian *nidāmān- (“covering, envelope”). Cognate to Wakhi [script needed] (naẟün, “scabbard”) and Sanskrit निधानम् (nidhānam, “act of laying down, depositing, deposit; keeping; preserving; place where something is deposited or kept, receptacle”). Also borrowed into Biblical Hebrew נָדָן (nāḏā́n) found in the…
aile: نیامی, نیام کیر
آری چو آفتاب کشد تیغ از نیام اول زند به قلب شب تیره روزگار
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bainha, from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”). Compare Galician vaíña, Spanish vaina, Catalan beina, also French gaine, Italian guaina. Doublet of vagem and vagina and related to baunilha.
vagina (passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals) · sheath, holster, scabbard
çekim: çoğul pochwy · tamlayan pochwy
eş: wagina, saya
köken: Inherited from Old Polish pochwa, from Proto-Slavic *poxъva. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Latin vāgīna (“scabbard”). Cognate with Belarusian по́хва (póxva), Czech pochva, and Ukrainian пі́хва (píxva).
köken: From Old Norse skeiðir (“sheath”), plural of skeið (“reed, sley”), from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz. The old singular is continued by the Danish noun ske (“spoon”). Cognate with German Scheide, Dutch schede, and English sheath. The anatomical sense is a semantic loan from Latin vāgīna.