corbis

Meaning

basket; basketful

Concepts

basket

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basketful

trash

Synonyms

calathus

cophinus

Translations

Korb

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korf

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mand

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cesto

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cesta

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panier

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cistell

🧺

cesto

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cesto

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καλάθι

sepet

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cove

slof

πανέρι

ben

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈkɔr.bɪs]

Etymology

Unknown. Some refer it to Latin curvus, others to Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos) or from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerbʰ- (“to turn (around), wind”) (cognate with scirpus); it could be also a Semitic borrowing, comparing Ge'ez ከረቦ (käräbo, “basket”), Amharic ከረቦ (käräbo, “basket”), considering the variant Ge'ez ከበሮ (käbäro, “basket”) possibly related to Ge'ez ከፈር (käfär, “basket”), Tigrinya ከፈር (käfär, “basket”), Arabic قَفِير (qafīr, “basket”). Alternatively, possibly borrowed from early Proto-West Germanic *korb, from Proto-Germanic *kurbaz, from earlier *krebô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“bundle”).