ball, globe · bowl (in the game of bowls) · scoop (for example, of ice cream)
çekim: çoğul boules
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bullader.? Frankish *bollāder.? Old French bole Middle French boule French boule Inherited from Middle French boule, from Old French bole (“knob”), from either Latin bulla (“bubble”), in which case it is a doublet of bulle (which was borrowed later); or from Frankish *bollā (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”), in which case…
aile: avoir les boules, bougie à boule, boule à thé, boule à zéro, boule de cristal, boule de démolition, boule de feu, boule de geisha, boule de mammouth, boule de neige
ball, solid sphere · ball (the set of points lying within a given distance from a given point) · balloon
çekim: çoğul шары́ · tamlayan ша́ра
köken: Unclear. Perhaps related (although Vasmer found it unconvincing) to Old Church Slavonic шаръ (šarŭ, “color, paint”), Old Church Slavonic шарити (šariti, “to paint”), Old Church Slavonic шаръчи (šarŭči, “painter”), which probably derive from an early Turkic borrowing into Slavic; cf. Proto-Turkic *siarïg (“yellow, white”). In that case, the sense development might have been “color, paint” → “spot”…
a sphere; a ball, globe or bulb · a head; one's brains · a scoop (of ice etc.)
çekim: çoğul bollen
eş: bal, kloot, kogel, sfeer
köken: From Middle Dutch bol, bolle, from Old Dutch *bolla, from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“round object or vessel, ball, bowl”).
sphere (regular three-dimensional object) · sphere, domain (region in which something or someone is active)
çekim: çoğul esferas
köken: Learned borrowing from Late Latin sphēra, from Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”).
sphere (three-dimensional shape consisting of all points equidistant from a center) · sphere (region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain) · sphere (group of people distinguished on the basis of origin, education, social or material status, interests, etc.)
çekim: çoğul sfery · tamlayan sfery
köken: Internationalism; compare English sphere, French sphère, German Sphäre, ultimately from Latin sphaera.
ball, orb, sphere, globe (spherical object) · ball (spherical object used in many sports and games) · sphere (surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center) (see usage notes)
çekim: çoğul pallot · tamlayan pallon
köken: Borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz. Doublet of palli.
any round object; a sphere; a globe · a glob, group
çekim: çoğul globī · tamlayan globī
köken: Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”), but if so it may have to be via some substrate loan which was also absorbed by other Indo-European branches, based on the unexplained suffix and variants. Apparently cognate with Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”) (see there for more), glomus, Sanskrit ग्लुन्थ (gluntha, “lump”), and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump;…