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.
bond, connection, relationship, liaison, tie (attachment, as in a relation) · band (all English senses, above, except for group of musicians) · ribbon or object of similar shape
çekim: çoğul banden
köken: Inherited from Middle Dutch bant, from Old Dutch *bant. Compare Old High German bant, pant n, Old Saxon band, Old Frisian band n (and a closely related form Old English bænd, bend with umlaut from *bandiz). A verbal noun with ablaut to binden (“to bind”).
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”)
futile (of a promise, not intended to be kept) · uncovered, bounced, unbacked (not backed with sufficient funds, as a cheque) · groundless, baseless (without any grounds to support it, like a rumor)