box (a container) · tin, can · ellipsis of boîte de nuit (“club, nightclub”)
çekim: çoğul boîtes
eş: caisse, coffret
köken: Inherited from Old French boiste, from Vulgar Latin *buxita, from Late Latin buxis, from a conflation of Latin pyxis (“small box”) and buxus (“box tree”). Doublet of box.
aile: boîte à camembert, boîte à cigare, boîte à gants, boîte à musique, boîte à outils, boîte à suggestions, boîte automatique, boîte aux lettres, boîte crânienne, boîte CVT
box (Buxus sempervirens) · Metaphor for the beloved's graceful figure.
çekim: çoğul شمشادها
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šmšʾl /šimšār/), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫܡܫܪܐ (šemšārā, šamšārā), ܫܡܫܛ (šemšaṭ, “boxwood”), or perhaps the other way around, ultimately of uncertain origin. Cognate with Akkadian 𒅆𒈨𒌍𒊭𒇻𒌋 (ši-meš-ša-lu-u /šimeššalû/), 𒋆𒊭𒇻𒌋 (šim-ša-lu-u /šimšalû, šimšallu/, “a tree; potentially boxwood”).
cell (room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates) · cell (small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person) · cella (central, enclosed part of an ancient temple)
the evergreen box tree. · a thing made of boxwood.
çekim: çoğul buxī · tamlayan buxī
köken: Uncertain. Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box tree”) is cognate, but probably not the origin, as the tree grew in Italy and is not native to Greece or Asia Minor. Both the Latin and Greek may be from an Italian substrate language.