köken: Borrowed from French bande (“ribbon; group, gang”).
aile: ancho de banda, arriar en banda, arroz a banda, banda de guerra, bandera, cerrarse en banda, estar en banda, línea de banda, saque de banda, soltar en banda
gang, squad · mess as in: a disagreeable mixture of a large quantity of objects in disorder resulting from people misbehaving or animals stampeding
çekim: çoğul bendes
köken: From Middle Dutch bende, from Old French bende from Frankish *bindā, *bindu, from Proto-Germanic *bindō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie; bond, band”). Cognate with Old English binde (“band, wreath, ribbon”), Old High German binta (“band, bandage, string”), Middle Dutch bende (“band, buoy, fetter”).
group, bunch, gang (of people or friends) · panel (interview panel, panel of judges) · team
çekim: çoğul ομάδες · tamlayan ομάδας
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμάς (homás, “total”) with accusative case ending -άδα (-áda), in some cases a semantic loan from French équipe.
hoop (a circular band of metal used to bind a barrel) · ring, band (a thicker iron band hot-drawn around the circumference of a wooden wheel to hold the wheel together and protect it from wear) · tire (the rubber covering on a wheel)
çekim: çoğul abroncsok
köken: From a Slavic language, compare Czech obruč.
a crowd, a band, a troop, a retinue · a group, flock, pack (of animals)
çekim: çoğul catervae · tamlayan catervae
köken: Inherited from Proto-Italic *katerwā, of uncertain origin, though Clayton (2024) suggests Proto-Indo-European *ḱátwr̥ (“hostility”). Perhaps related to cassis (“net”) and catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”). Also compare Albanian thes (“sack, bag”).
From a form of Chinese 對 (MC twojH) (SV: đối) in a southern Sinitic lect. Southern Min lects (對 /对 (dui³) or 對 /对) are phonetically close, but in these lects, the word for "pair" is usually 雙 (MC sraewng); in Yue, 對 /对 is the chief word for "pair" but phonetically it is less straightforward as far as the prestigious Guangfu lects are concerned. In any case, doublet of đôi. In Đại Nam quấc âm tự…