shell (hard calcareous external covering of mollusks) · pinna, auricle, helix (the external ear) · sink, washbowl, basin, bowl
çekim: çoğul ра́ковины · tamlayan ра́ковины
eş: ракушка, умывальник, каверна
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic раковина (rakovina, “mother of pearl”). Per Vasmer, from Proto-Slavic *orky (“shell”) (genitive *orkъve) + *-ina, from Proto-Germanic *arkō (“chest, coffer”), from Latin arca (“chest, coffer, coffin”). Cognate with ра́ка (ráka, “shrine of a saint, originally coffin”), from the same Latin source, and with Slovene rákəv (“coffin, crypt”), Czech rakev (“coffin”),…