контора

/kɐnˈtorə/
dişil
RUSÇA → TR

Çekim Tablosu

çoğulконто́ры
tamlayanконто́ры

Tanım

•office, bureau · suspicious company · the KGB

Etimoloji

Borrowed from German Kontor around 1720, from Middle Low German kontôr, komtôr, komptor (“commercial branch; writing room; counting desk/table”), from Middle Dutch contoor, contoir, comptoir, from Middle French contoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (instrument suffix), from Latin computāre and -tōrium. Sense 'KGB' originated from a pun playing on another rare meaning of the…