köken: From Middle High German linse, from Old High German linsa, likely a borrowing from an unidentified source. Compare Latin lēns, Lithuanian lęšis, and Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta) sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform. If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is virtually impossible because cultivation…
eş: vidrio, metanfetamina cristal, metanfetamina de cristal
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish cristal, from Latin crystallum, from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “ice”).
aile: acristalar, armónica de cristal, bola de cristal, cristal de roca, cristal líquido, cristalería, cristalero, culebra de cristal, encristalar, generación de cristal
lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it) · lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye) · lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams)
çekim: çoğul lentes
köken: Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".
lens (object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it) · lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams) · lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye)
lentil (seed used as food) · lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
çekim: çoğul lencsék
köken: First attested in c. 1325. Borrowed from South Slavic. Compare Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta), Bulgarian леща (lešta), Macedonian леќа (leḱa), Serbo-Croatian leća, Slovene leča. First used in the sense of plant. Later, after German influence, it also emerged as a medical term (in anatomy) [1787] and in optics [1799]. Common Slavic age form is reconstructed as Proto-Slavic *lęťa, being probably…