köken: From Middle High German boge, from Old High German bogo, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô. Compare Dutch boog, English bow, Danish bue, Norwegian Nynorsk boge, Swedish båge.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kaari, from Proto-Uralic *këŋere. Cognate with Estonian kaar. * ((law) code, act): Semantic loan from Swedish balk (literally “beam”), perhaps by comparison with the rib of a boat or ship. * ((taxonomy) division, phylum): Semantic development from “(law) code, act”.
arc, arch · bow (arc-shaped weapon used for archery) · rainbow
çekim: çoğul arcūs · tamlayan arcūs
köken: From Proto-Italic *arkuos (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Cognate to Old English earh, whence English arrow, as well as Proto-Slavic *orkyta (“willow”) and Ancient Greek ἄρκευθος (árkeuthos, “juniper”), owing to juniper and willow twigs being used to make bows due to their flexibility.
rainbow (a multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air) · stave (e.g. of a barrel), clapboard, offset · electric arc
çekim: çoğul дъги́
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *dangāˀ Proto-Slavic *dǫga Bulgarian дъга Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫga.
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”), compare Latvian lanka (“lowland”), Old Prussian lunkis (“angle”). Cognates include Old Church Slavonic лѫкъ (lǫkŭ, “bow”), Belarusian and Russian лук (luk, “bow”).