field; a wide, open space that is used to grow crops
çekim: çoğul åkrar · tamlayan åkers
köken: From Old Swedish aker, from Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Akin to English acre.
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”.
Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field · Any flat or level surface · a specific plain or field north of Rome’s walls called the Campus Mārtius, where the comitia centuriata were held
çekim: çoğul campī · tamlayan campī
köken: Traditionally, from Proto-Italic *kampos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s, from *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve; smooth”), making it an exact cognate of Lithuanian kam̃pas (“corner”) and Ancient Greek καμπ- (kamp-, “bend”). Compare camur (“curved, bent”) for the root without a -p- suffix. Alternatively, perhaps an agricultural term borrowed from a substrate language; this would explain the…
köken: From Old Danish akær, from Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, cognate with Swedish åker, English acre, German Acker. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”), which is also the source of Latin ager, Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós), Sanskrit अज्रः (ájraḥ).
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مرعی (merʾa, “a pasture, pasturage”) or مرعا, from Arabic مَرْعَى (marʕā, “grassland, pasture”), from رَعَى (raʕā, “to graze, to tend, to take care of, to guard”).