eş: Gaïa, globe, globe terrestre, planète bleue, Terre, troisième planète du système solaire
köken: From Old French monde (12th c.), semi-learned form of mont (10th c.), itself inherited from Latin mundus. The alteration was likely driven by the desire to distinguish from unrelated mont (“mountain”).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mirъ (“peace; world”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *meiˀrás (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey(H)-ró-s. The dual meaning of "peace" and "world" is unique to Slavic. The pre-1918 orthography had an orthographical distinction of the two identically pronounced words to avoid confusion.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai دنیا (dunyā /dunyâ/), from Classical Persian دُنْیَا (dunyā), from Arabic دُنْيَا f (dunyā). Cognate with Uyghur دۇنيا (dunya).
world · a metaphorical world (how one lives one's life) · society, the times
köken: From Middle Chinese 世界 (MC syejH keajH), originally a translation of Sanskrit लोकधातु (lokadhātu, “region or part of the world”). Compare Hokkien 世界 (sè-kài).
world · realm governed by a Buddha · space, universe
eş: 世, 區宇, 区宇, 四國, 四国, 四海
köken: Coined by Buddhist translators (c. 3rd century) to translate Sanskrit लोकधातु (lokadhātu, “world”). In its original Buddhist sense, the word encompassed a range of spatial meanings from a 小世界 (xiǎo shìjiè, “minor world”) with a single sun and moon to the billion-world 三千大千世界 (sānqiān-dàqiān-shìjiè, “trichiliocosm”). Its modern sense dates from Japanese 世(せ)界(かい) (sekai) re-adaptation of the word…