custom (duty collected at the borders) · customs (authority collecting that duty) · toll (sacrifice or victims associated with a decision or condition)
köken: From Middle High German and Old High German zol, from Proto-Germanic *tullō (“what is counted or told”), for which see Proto-West Germanic *tolnu (“toll”) for more. Cognate with English toll.
customs (an authority responsible for controlling the flow of goods to and from a country) · customs office
çekim: çoğul douanes
köken: Attested in Old French in 1281 as dohanne with the meaning “building where the rights of entry and exit of goods are earned” (Angevin Archives of Naples). In 1441 in the Middle French form doana (“rights of entry and exit of goods”). Borrowed from Sicilian Medieval Latin doana, dovana (attested from the end of the 12th century), whence the modern Italian dogana, borrowed from the Andalusian…
köken: Borrowed from French douane, from Middle French doane, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin doana, dovana, from Andalusian Arabic *دُوَان (*duwān), from earlier Arabic دِيوَان (dīwān), from Persian دیوان (divân, “customs, divan”).
customs (the government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods) · customs, custom house (official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit) · duty, tariff (tax placed on imports or exports)