ring (circular shape) · ring (round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger) · ring
çekim: çoğul anneaux
köken: Inherited from Middle French anneau, from Old French anel, from Latin ānellus, diminutive of ānus (“ring”). Cognates in regional French languages: Franco-Provençal anèu, Gallo anè, aniao, anot Norman anné, Occitan anèl, Picard èniau. Cognates with Catalan anell, Corsican anellu, Galician anel, Italian anello, Portuguese anel, Romanian inel, Sicilian aneḍḍu, Spanish anillo.
köken: Of uncertain chain of etymology; once thought to be a borrowing from Aramaic, but deemed unlikely as had the word been borrowed from Biblical Hebrew חוֹתָם (ḥōtām) or Aramaic חוֹתָמָא (ḥōtāmā) / ܚܵܘܬܵܡܵܐ (ḥāwtāmā, “seal”), it would probably have started with a /ḥ/, unless the Arabic has been borrowed from it in the incipient 1st millennium BC or earlier when Aramaic still distinguished the…
ring · yuzuk (a game played at weddings and on special days where a person hides a ring or pocket knife in their hand and another person guesses which hand it is in)
çekim: çoğul ýüzükler · tamlayan ýüzügüň
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yüŕük (“ring”). Cognate to Turkish yüzük (“ring”).
carat (unit of weight) · carat (measure of purity of gold)
çekim: çoğul karaats
köken: From the Greek word keration (fruit of the carob tree), which came into Dutch via Arabic and Italian. The seeds of such fruit were used in the ancient world as units for measuring weight.
ring (round piece of metal worn around the finger) · anus; ringpiece · annulus
çekim: çoğul anéis
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese anel, borrowed from Old Occitan anel, from Latin ānellus (“finger ring”). Doublet of elo, which was inherited. Cognates include Catalan anell, French anneau, Italian anello, Spanish anillo. Sense 2 likely comes from the round form of the anus.
ring for the finger · something shaped like a ring
çekim: çoğul δαχτυλίδια · tamlayan δαχτυλιδιού
köken: From Byzantine Greek δαχτυλίδιον (dakhtulídion), from Koine Greek δακτυλίδιον (daktulídion), diminutive of Ancient Greek δακτύλιον (daktúlion), itself a diminutive of δάκτυλος (dáktulos).
köken: From Sanskrit अङ्गुष्ठिका (aṅguṣṭhikā), from अङ्गुष्ठ (aṅguṣṭha, “thumb”), whence also अंगूठा (aṅgūṭhā). Cognate with Bengali আঙ্গুটি (aṅguṭi), আংটি (aṅṭi) and Marathi अंगठी (aṅgṭhī).