building · apartment building · piece of real property, piece of real estate (including both land and buildings)
çekim: çoğul immeubles
eş: bâtiment, tour
zıt: meuble
köken: Inherited from Old French immeuble/immoble, borrowed from Latin immōbilis (“that which is immovable”) but adapted to the ending of meuble (“furniture”), inherited from the Latin antonym mōbilis (“that which is movable”). The two terms constituted a recurrent pair in juridical Latin. Doublet of immobile.
Je vivais autrefois dans un duplex, puis je suis déménagé dans un immeuble.
köken: Borrowed from French bloc, from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”).
köken: From French bloc (“group, block”), from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch bloc (“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”).
apartment building, apartment block, block of flats (residential building containing multiple apartments or flats stacked on multiple floors or storeys)
house, building (closed structure with walls and a roof) · home (the place of one’s dwelling, the house where one lives) · the residents of a house collectively
çekim: çoğul házak
köken: From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kota. Cognates include Estonian kodu, Finnish koti, Moksha куд (kud). Not related to Proto-Germanic *hūsą or any of its descendants.