dungeon (historic prison in a vault) · an underground prison or place of captivity
çekim: çoğul Verliese · tamlayan Verlieses
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German verlies (“loss”), cognate with Dutch verlies (“id.”) and German verlieren (“to lose”). Apparently, the original meaning is "place where someone is lost"; possibly a second word (like "place", "hole") has been omitted, although no such compound seems to be attested.
Gehen wir runter in dieses Verlies. — O zindana inelim.
Gefangene Feinde ließ man in Verliesen unterhalb der Burg verhungern.
Der Entführer hielt sein Opfer in einem eigens gebauten Verlies im Keller seines Hauses.
köken: From Middle Persian gryhcg (grehčag, “pit, prison”). Akin to Parthian [Term?] (“pit”); and related to Middle Persian [script needed] (gristag, “cave, enclosure”).
köken: A reborrowing: borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پودروم (bodrum, podrum, “basement”), either from Koine Greek ὑπόδρομος (hupódromos, literally “under-walkway”) or from Byzantine Greek ἱππόδρομος (hippódromos, “hippodrome (in reference to the dungeons where animals were kept)”) at the Hippodrome. Less likely is the reduction from the Hellenistic ὑπόδρομος (hupódromos, “a place for ships to run into,…
Ας κατέβουμε στα μπουντρούμια. — O zindana inelim.
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.