canal (artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation) · duct, canal (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another) · channel (specific radio frequency or band of frequencies for transmitting a radio or television broadcast)
çekim: çoğul kanavat · tamlayan kanavan
köken: Borrowed from Russian кана́ва (kanáva). Doublet of kanaali. Further etymology * Russian кана́ва (kanáva) from Polish kanał, from Italian canale, from Latin canalis, from canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). * According to SSA, the word was first used in the eastern Finnish dialects, and its wider adoption in Standard Finnish may have been inspired by media…
meridian (an imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles) · meridian (a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular observer)
çekim: çoğul délkörök
köken: dél (“noon”) + kör (“circle”). Calque of German Mittagskreis, earlier mittagszirkel, Mittag (“noon”) + Zirkel (“circle”), based on Latin circulus merīdiānus. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
meridian (any of the pathways on the body along which chi or qi (life force) is thought to flow and, therefore, the acupoints are distributed; especially, one of twelve such pathways associated with organs of the body)