Feminine

Arche

Meaning

  1. (feminine) ark (Noah’s ship)
  2. (archaic, feminine) ark of the covenant
  3. (feminine, obsolete) broad, middle-sized boat or ship
  4. (dialectal, feminine, obsolete) wooden box, chest

Concepts

Noah’s ark

Translations

Arche

Arche

duba

mavna

Nuh’un gemisi

سَفِينَة

Nuh'un gemisi

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈarçə/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German arche, byform of more common arke, from Old High German arka, archa, from Proto-Germanic *arkō, from Latin arca. The expected German form is Arke. The ch-form is native in parts of Upper German. It was reinforced in the modern standard language by the Medieval Latin spelling archa.

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