carapace (a hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal) · caparison · shell
çekim: çoğul caparazones
eş: concha, coraza, cubierta
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish caparaçón (mid-15th century), from Old Occitan capairon; or alternatively from the ancestor of Mistralian Provençal caparasso (“large cape with hood”) + -ón; both ultimately from Late Latin cappa (“cape”).
trough, wooden vessel · shell of a tortoise; also metaphorical.
köken: A contraction of لاوک (lâvak, “kneading trough”), derived with a l < n sound change from Old Iranian *nāwaka-, a diminutive of Proto-Iranian *náHuš (“boat”); doublet of ناوک (nâvak, “hopper or feeder of a mill; a small boat”) and ناوه (nâve, “kneading trough; a small boat”). Cognate with Mazanderani [script needed] (lɔk, “kneading trough”).
carapace (dorsal part of a turtle's shell) · shell (external covering of crustaceans) · shell (exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects)
çekim: çoğul carapaças
eş: frústula
köken: Etymology tree substrateder.? Spanish carapachobor. French carapacebor. Portuguese carapaça Borrowed from French carapace, from Spanish carapacho.
shell ((hard) external covering of an animal, egg, nut, various objects, etc. – used similarly to English) · peel, skin (outer layer or cover of a fruit or vegetable) · a hard case (especially for a mobile phone, tablet computer, or the like)
çekim: çoğul skals · tamlayan skals
köken: From Old Swedish skal, from Old Norse skel, from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”). Compare Danish skæl, Dutch schaal, Dutch schil, English shale, English shell, German Schale, Norwegian skjell.
shield (broad piece of defensive armor) · escutcheon (the shield on which a coat of arms is displayed) · shield (large, flat expanse)
çekim: çoğul kilvet · tamlayan kilven
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kilpi (compare Estonian kilp, Livonian kiļb, more distantly also Northern Sami galba), possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hlībō (compare Old Norse hlíf).
köken: Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Turkish tekne, Chuvash такана (tak̬ana, “wash tub”).
shield, buckler (defence weapon) · shield, shell, carapace (hard protective cover on the back of an animal)
çekim: çoğul skjolde · tamlayan skjolds
köken: From Old Danish skiold, from Old Norse skjǫldr, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), cognate with Norwegian skjold, Swedish sköld, English shield, Dutch schild, German Schild. Doublet of skilt (“sign”).
scale (keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals)
çekim: çoğul sisik-sisik
köken: Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *siksik (“scale of fish, lizard or snake; shell of turtle or tortoise”). Cognate with Malagasy sisika and Fijian cici.
It is not clear which between "mons veneris" and "carapace" is the more original, although the sense "back" is certainly a derivative. Compare Zhuang moz.