köken: Borrowed from Latin arēna (harēna). Compare typologically ателье́ (atelʹjé) (<< Latin assula), another example of a metonymic shift from a matter to a place (a common noun).
crossing, intersection (where roads, lines, or tracks cross) · crossroads, crossing, intersection (a place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads) · cross
köken: Internationalism; compare English circus, French cirque, German Zirkus, ultimately from Latin circus, from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos). Doublet of kark.
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”.
a royal court, where mandarins would prostrate themselves in front of the reigning monarch · stage (for a performance)
köken: sân (“court; yard”) + khấu (“to kowtow; to prostrate oneself”, 叩). The modern meaning might be due to the bows often seen with the curtain call at the end of a play or performance. If so, this word most likely first acquired the meaning "stage" after European performance arts started to become familiar to Vietnamese speakers, as Vietnamese performance arts traditionally likely did not feature…