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”).
vaulted, arched, rounded · convex or concave (depending on context) · inclined (sloping downwards)
köken: From convehō (“carry”), with semantic development "carried or moving along" > "inclined, arched"; compare also dēvexus (“sloping down”). The traditional derivation from Proto-Indo-European *wenk- (“to be bent or bowed”), whence Sanskrit वञ्च् (vañc, “to move crookedly”), is phonetically implausible.