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”).
area; region; place (a geographical location) · area; region; place (an extent of surface) · area; field (related things and concepts)
çekim: çoğul áreas
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin ārea. Doublet of eira (“threshing floor”), which was inherited.
aile: área ativa, área ciclonal, área crítica, área de afundamento, área de construção, área de livre comércio, área de ocupação, área de serviço, área de subsidência, área de trabalho
a field, a (physical) area, an open space in a landscape (for farming or battle) · a field (of vectors, of forces) · a field (of interest), an area, a topic, a sphere (region of activity)
çekim: çoğul fälts · tamlayan fälts
köken: From Old Swedish fält, from Middle Low German velt, from Old Saxon feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, cognate with Old English feld, English field, also related to fjäll.
domain (field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise) · domain (geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization) · domain (group of related items, topics, or subjects)
çekim: çoğul dziedziny · tamlayan dziedziny
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁dʰosder. Proto-Balto-Slavic *dēˀd-der. Proto-Slavic *dě̀dъ Proto-Indo-European *-iHneh Proto-Balto-Slavic *-īˀnāˀder. Proto-Slavic *-ina Proto-Slavic *dědina Old Polish dziedzina ▲ French domainesl. ▲ English domainsl. Polish dziedzina Inherited from Old Polish dziedzina. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French domaine, and sense 3 is a semantic loan from…
area (measure of the extent of a surface) · area, field, domain (one's field of expertise or activity) · field, discipline (specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice; e.g. in work or sciences)
çekim: çoğul alat · tamlayan alan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ala; see ala- for more. Already in Finnic, this stem, originally meaning “lower, under” was repurposed as a noun meaning “underside, lower side”, whence “area”, whence the other senses like “domain”, “field”, “sector”.
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;…