socket (electrical socket) · cartridge case (unprofessional; the correct term in the military is étui) · money
çekim: çoğul douilles
köken: Inherited from Middle French douille, from Old French doile, doelle (“the hollow part of a tool where the handle is fixed”), from Frankish *dollī, *dullī (“hollow tube, pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *dulją (“pipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰel- (“curvature, hollow”). Cognate with Old High German duli, tulli (“pipe”).
plug (a pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one) · socket, jack, electrical outlet (an opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket) · connections (influence allowing one to obtain something, especially giving an unfair advantage over others)
çekim: çoğul enchufes
köken: Deverbal from enchufar.
aile: enchufar, enchufismo, enchufista, tener enchufe
capture (the act of taking something by force) · plug (pronged end of an electrical cord) · socket (opening into which an electrical plug is connected)
köken: Clipping of コンセントリックプラグ (konsentorikku puragu), wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from concentric + plug, used since the late Meiji period. Sometimes the source word is mistaken for the unrelated English consent, which would be transliterated the same way.
jack, socket (an opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit) · foundation · bottom, floor, bed (the lowermost surface of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea)
köken: From English socket, from Middle English socket, soket, from Anglo-Norman soket (“spearhead”), diminutive of Old French soc (“plowshare”), from Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare modern Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout," from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.