a ball, usually solid · bullet, projectile · round, cartridge, bullet
çekim: çoğul Kugeln · tamlayan Kugeln
eş: Patrone, Projektil
köken: From Middle High German kugel(e), of unknown origin. It is not clear whether Middle Dutch coghele, coeghele (modern kogel) is a cognate or rather a borrowing from High German. In the former case it would require a Proto-West Germanic *kugulā. Possibly related with English cudgel, from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), whence German Kogge…
ball, globe · bowl (in the game of bowls) · scoop (for example, of ice cream)
çekim: çoğul boules
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bullader.? Frankish *bollāder.? Old French bole Middle French boule French boule Inherited from Middle French boule, from Old French bole (“knob”), from either Latin bulla (“bubble”), in which case it is a doublet of bulle (which was borrowed later); or from Frankish *bollā (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”), in which case…
aile: avoir les boules, bougie à boule, boule à thé, boule à zéro, boule de cristal, boule de démolition, boule de feu, boule de geisha, boule de mammouth, boule de neige
köken: From Medieval Latin balla, palla, bala, from Frankish *ballu, from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Alternatively, via Lombardic *palla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, from the same ultimate origin. Compare Sicilian baḍḍa.
ball, solid sphere · ball (the set of points lying within a given distance from a given point) · balloon
çekim: çoğul шары́ · tamlayan ша́ра
köken: Unclear. Perhaps related (although Vasmer found it unconvincing) to Old Church Slavonic шаръ (šarŭ, “color, paint”), Old Church Slavonic шарити (šariti, “to paint”), Old Church Slavonic шаръчи (šarŭči, “painter”), which probably derive from an early Turkic borrowing into Slavic; cf. Proto-Turkic *siarïg (“yellow, white”). In that case, the sense development might have been “color, paint” → “spot”…
a sphere; a ball, globe or bulb · a head; one's brains · a scoop (of ice etc.)
çekim: çoğul bollen
eş: bal, kloot, kogel, sfeer
köken: From Middle Dutch bol, bolle, from Old Dutch *bolla, from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“round object or vessel, ball, bowl”).
a hard ball, such as one made of metal · ball (solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.) · bullet (round projectile shot from a gun)
any round object; a sphere; a globe · a glob, group
çekim: çoğul globī · tamlayan globī
köken: Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”), but if so it may have to be via some substrate loan which was also absorbed by other Indo-European branches, based on the unexplained suffix and variants. Apparently cognate with Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”) (see there for more), glomus, Sanskrit ग्लुन्थ (gluntha, “lump”), and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump;…