köken: From Middle French cabane (14th c.), from Old Occitan cabana, from Late Latin capanna, which see. Doublet of cabine. Perhaps also related with cahute.
eş: prigione, galera, penitenziario, casa circondariale, stabilimento carcerario, casa di pena
köken: From Latin carcerem, from Proto-Italic *karkros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), in the sense of “enclosure”. Cognate to Old Catalan càrcer/carçre, Spanish cárcel and Portuguese cárcere.
prison (place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes) · chain (series of interconnected rings or links made of metal) · chain (series of interconnected things)
çekim: çoğul cadeias
eş: cadêa
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cadea, from Latin catēna, from Proto-Italic *katesnā. Compare Galician cadea, Spanish cadena, and English chain. Doublet of the direct borrowing catena.
aile: advogado de porta de cadeia, cadeia alimentar, cadeia de caracteres, cadeia montanhosa, chave de cadeia, encadear, reação em cadeia
köken: Appears to be a coinage in Japan as a replacement for the Chinese-derived term 監獄 (kangoku, “prison, jail”). Analyzable as a compound of 刑(けい) (kei, “penance, penalty”) + 務(む) (mu, “work; something that must be done”) + 所(しょ) (-sho, “place”). Attested in the 現代用語辞典 (Gendai Yōgo Jiten, “Modern Term Dictionary”) of 1925.
prison (place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes) · confinement, imprisonment · prison (any restrictive environment)
çekim: çoğul börtönök
köken: First attested in 1261. Of unknown origin. Its original (now obsolete) meaning was executioner; jailer. Its modern sense probably developed by splitting from the compound word börtönház (“prison, the house of the prison guard”, literally “prison house”) [1675].
prison, jail · jailbird · traps (barriers at start of a horse race)
çekim: çoğul carcerēs · tamlayan carceris
köken: Derived from Proto-Italic *karkros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure", and as such a doublet of cancer. Cognate with circus, curvus, crux, crīnis, crispus, English ring. It is not known how the noun shifted to the third declension.
prison (place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes)
çekim: çoğul fængsler · tamlayan fængsels
köken: Equivalent to fange (“to capture”) + -sel (“act of”). From Old Danish fengelse (“prison”), borrowed from Middle Low German vangnisse, vengnisse, cf. German Gefängnis. Icelandic fangelsi and Swedish fängelse are also borrowed from Low German.
köken: From Dutch boei (“buoy, shackle”), from Middle Dutch boeye, from Old French boie (“fetter, chain, clog”), from Latin boia (“(leather) collar, band, fetter”).