abacus (uppermost member of the capital of a column) · abacus (cupboard for holding cups, bottles, etc.)
çekim: çoğul аба́ки · tamlayan аба́ки
eş: абак
köken: Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board for drawing, calculating”). Аба́ка (Abáka), in its culinary sense, originally referred to a perforated board for holding cups (compare cupboard, from cup + board).
köken: Possibly from the following: * According to Potet (2013), borrowed from Arabic الْأَبَقَ (al-ʔabaqa, “the abaca”), the accusative definite inflection of Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”), from Classical Syriac ܐܳܦܰܩܬܳܐ (ʾāpaqtā), ܐܰܦܩܰܥܬܳܐ (ʾap̄qaʿtā, “de-seeded cotton”). He added that Muslim marine merchants imposed their term on Philippine suppliers so that the native terms died out in the…