glasses, spectacles (frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes to correct vision) · goggles (protective eyewear set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face) · Ellipsis of Klobrille (“toilet seat”) (hinged, contoured seat with a hole in the middle, of a toilet)
köken: From Middle High German brille, berille, from berillus (“beryl”), from Latin beryllus (“beryl”). Compare dialectal English brills (“spectacles”). The "toilet seat" sense is derived in analogy with the usually round shape of spectacle frames surrounding the glass, just as a toilet seat surrounds the toilet hole.
a pair of glasses or goggles · a telescope · anything of similar shape
çekim: çoğul brillen
eş: closetbril, toiletbril, wc-bril
köken: From Middle Dutch beril (“beryl”), from Latin beryllus (“beryl”), from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos), from Prakrit [Term?] (compare Sanskrit वैडूर्य (vaiḍūrya, “a cat's eye gem; a jewel”)), from Dravidian. Probably named after the city Velur (modern day Belur) in southern India. The first glasses, manufactured in Italy around 1300, were made of beryl. The meaning “toilet seat” is newer and…
glass (material) · shard, glass fragment · television, the box
çekim: çoğul γυαλιά · tamlayan γυαλιού
eş: ύαλος
köken: From Byzantine Greek γυαλίν (gualín), from earlier ὑάλιον (huálion), a diminutive form of Ancient Greek ὕαλος (húalos, “crystalline stone; glass”). Doublet of ύαλος (ýalos).
glass (Classifier: 張／张 m; 塊／块 m c) · generic term for any film material with glass-like transparency, such as cellophane, nylon, plastic, etc. (Classifier: 張／张 m; 塊／块 m) · eyeglasses; spectacles
eş: 琉璃, 頗黎, 颇黎, 靉靆, 眼鏡, 眼鏡
köken: From Prakrit 𑀨𑀸𑀮𑀺𑀅 (phālia) (Ji, 1998v4); from Sanskrit स्फटिक (sphaṭika). Cognate with Pali phalika (“crystal”), Thai ผลึก (pà-lʉ̀k, “crystal”), Lao ຜະລຶກ (pha lưk), ຜະລິກະ (pha li ka), Khmer ផលិក (phɑɑphɑlək), etc. The meaning has been shifted to refer to glass (the material).
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 거우〮루 (Yale: kè(G)wúlwù). The ancestral pre-Middle Korean form may have had a leniting velar in the second syllable.
smooth and shiny water surface · light stain on the backside of deer, fallow deer, and roes · spot on the wingtips of capercaillies and black grouse, and on the flight feathers of wild ducks
köken: From Old East Slavic стькло (stĭklo), inherited from Proto-Slavic *stьklo, from Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃 (stikls). Doublet of шкло (šklo), a borrowing from Polish.