ballot box (a sealed box into which a voter puts his voting slip) · urn (vessel for ashes of a deceased person) · coffin (box in which a dead person is buried)
urn, a moderately sized vessel for drawing water · ballot box, particularly the urns used in gathering Roman ballots under the Republic · urn, a moderately sized vessel used to store the ashes of the cremated dead
çekim: çoğul urnae · tamlayan urnae
köken: Probably from *urc-na, with simplification of the cluster. Ernout and Meillet view this word, urceus, orca and Greek ὕρχη (húrkhē) (other words for vessels) as all related somehow via borrowing (with the exact source and pathway unclear). Bennett 1907 indicates that the length of the vowel in the first syllable is not established, noting that the Italian descendant could be a learned form, and…
köken: From Malay pasu (“vase; pot”), from Portuguese vaso (“vase; container”), from Old Galician-Portuguese vaso, from Latin vāsum (“vessel; vase”). Doublet of vas. * The sense of rice measure is a semantic loan from Lawangan [Term?], most likely as loanword from Malay pasu above.