chas

Meaning

eye (of a needle)

Concepts

eye

👁️

foramen

hole

🕳️

orifice

puncture

vent

Synonyms

trou

🕳️

œil

👁️

Translations

cruna

👁️

ojo

👁️

Öhr

👁️

μάτι

οπή

oog

👁️

τρύπα

τρυπίτσα

olho

👁️

buraco

ull

👁️

Nadelöhr

foramen

ματάκι

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃa/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French: chas

In summary

Inherited from Old French chas, perhaps a derivation from Latin capsus (“sort of cage, hollow body”), related to capsa (“case, box”). The sense evolution could have been from "cage" to "bubble," as attested in the writings of Apicius (a Roman cookbook author), and then finally used to represent a small hollow object, or a cavity.