a metric pound, 500 grams, half a kilogram · any of the English (Anglophone) units of mass or currency called a "pound" · a hard shot at the goal
çekim: çoğul Pfunde · tamlayan Pfundes
eş: Kilogramm, Kilo, Pfund Sterling, Sterling
köken: From Middle High German pfunt, phunt, from Old High German pfunt, phunt, from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą, a borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”, adverb) or Latin pondus (“weight”, noun).
eş: bouquin, ouvrage, écrit, manuel, recueil, tome
köken: Inherited from Middle French livre, from Old French livre, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin librum. The strictly inherited form would be *loivre. Doublet of liber.
aile: à livre ouvert, livre audio, livre blanc, livre de bord, livre de chevet, livre de comptes, livre de poche, livre d'heures, livre d'or, livre électronique
English or American pound avoirdupois (a unit of mass equivalent to 453.6 g) · libra, Spanish pound (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 460 g) · British pound (the currency of the United Kingdom and its dependencies, originally notionally equivalent to a pound of stirling silver)
çekim: çoğul libras
eş: libra esterlina, lira
köken: From Latin libra (“Roman pound, scale”). Doublet of lira. In reference to the English unit, a calque of English pound. Cognate with Galician and Portuguese libra and Catalan lliura.
unit of mass, often broadly similar to 500 grams · pound (453.6 grams) · pound, any of several local units, with a range between 420 and 500 grammes, divided into 16 historical ounces
çekim: çoğul ponden
köken: From Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pondō.
aile: apothekerspond, de volle pond betalen, pondteken
English or American pound, a unit of mass equal to 454 g · pound, British and other currencies derived from the use of a pound as a weight in silver · libra, Portuguese pound, a traditional unit of mass usually equivalent to 345 g and chiefly used for trade in medicines
çekim: çoğul libras
köken: From Latin libra (“Roman pound”). Doublet of arrátel. In reference to the English unit, a calque of English pound. Cognate with Galician and Spanish libra and Catalan lliura.
nail (spike-shaped fastener, often made of metal) · peg (protrusion fixed on the wall on which one can hang a hat, coat, etc.) · pound (Swedish unit of weight equal to 425 grams)
çekim: çoğul naulat · tamlayan naulan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *nakla, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *naglaz (compare Swedish nagel). * ((coat) peg): The first coat pegs were often simply nails hammered on a wall and left to protrude out.
libra, Roman pound, a Roman unit of mass, equivalent to about 327 g · scales, a tool used to balance two weights to measure amounts · level, a tool used to check surfaces for horizontal and vertical alignment
çekim: çoğul lībrae · tamlayan lībrae
eş: £
köken: Of uncertain origin. The word's original form was something like Proto-Italic *līðrā, *leiðrā (“pound”), surviving also in Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra), whence English litre. Weiss derives the term from Proto-Indo-European *leyH- (“to pour”) suffixed with the instrumental/resultative suffix *-dʰrom, under the assumption that the term originally meant "pouring (of metal)" before evolving to mean a…
pound (currency) · pound (unit of mass, usually between 350 and 500 g; 496 g in Denmark before 1839) · half a kilo (informal unit of mass, mostly used of foods or the weight of people)
çekim: çoğul pundene · tamlayan punds
köken: From Old Norse pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą, cognate with English pound, German Pfund. An early loan from Latin pondō (“by weight”).