köken: From Late Latin sphēra, from Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”). Replaced Old French espere, from the same Latin source.
köken: Uncertain. * From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu. * From Lombardic *palla, *balla. Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla. Cognate with Sicilian baḍḍa, whence the dialectal doublet badda.
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 type of administrative division, translated as “district” or “province”, notably instituted by the Umayyad Caliphate and hence the Emirate of Córdoba
çekim: çoğul كُوَر · tamlayan كُورَةٍ
köken: From Classical Syriac ܟܘܪܐ (kōrā), from Ancient Greek χώρᾱ (khṓrā).
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”).
a ball; a more or less spherical object which is not hard or unyielding (compare kula) · a ball (pass) · a ball (testicle)
çekim: çoğul bollar · tamlayan bolls
köken: From Old Swedish balder, baller, from Old Norse bǫllr (“ball, globe”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“round thing, bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”).
globe, planet (large celestial body belonging to a planetary system) · globe (planet on which people live; Earth in reference only to the planet without its gaseous envelope)
çekim: çoğul globy · tamlayan globu
eş: kula ziemska, świat, planeta, Ziemia
köken: Etymology tree French globebor. Polish glob Borrowed from French globe. Doublet of globus.
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;…