rubber (natural and synthetic) · plastic · a rubber tree, hevea (Hevea brasiliensis)
çekim: çoğul caoutchoucs
eş: gomme élastique, figuier caoutchouc
köken: Borrowed from Spanish cauchuc (an early variant of caucho), from Quechua kawchu. The final -c was formerly variably pronounced or silent, but is now always silent.
köken: Borrowed from English condom, either named for a British physician (during Charles II's reign) or from Italian guantone, from guanto (“glove”); cognate with German Kondom and French condom.
rubber (pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree) · eraser (thing used to remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil) · wineskin (bag for holding wine)
çekim: çoğul borrachas
köken: Borrowed from Spanish borracha (“wineskin”); because native Amazonians used rubber to make waterskins, the meaning began to apply to the substance.
rubber (pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree) · short for 消しゴム (keshi-gomu, “rubber (eraser)”) · short for ヘアゴム (hea-gomu, “hair tie, scrunchie”)
rubber (pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree) · gum (sticky substance exuded by certain plants) · rubber (condom) n
çekim: çoğul gummier · tamlayan gummis
köken: From Old Danish gumi, borrowed from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).
rubber, pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene · rubber tree · rubber in the table tennis racket (paddle or bat)