λεκάνη

• λᾰκᾰ́νη (lakánē) — Koine

From λέκος (lékos, “dish, pot, pan”) +‎ -ᾰ́νη (-ánē, suffix for utensil names), alleged to be from Pre-Greek, however see λᾰ́γῡνος/λᾰ́γῠνος (lágūnos/lágunos, “flask”).

λεκᾰ́νη • (lekánē) f (genitive λεκᾰ́νης); first declension

1. dish, pot, pan, basin

• → Aramaic: לקנא
• Greek: λεκάνη (lekáni)

• “λεκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λεκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λεκάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • charger idem, page 125.
  • dish idem, page 234.
  • plate idem, page 618.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

From Ancient Greek λεκάνη (lekánē).

• IPA^(key): /leˈka.ni/

λεκάνη • (lekáni) f (plural λεκάνες)

1. any large bowl
2. washbasin, handbasin, sink
3. toilet bowl, toilet pan
4. (anatomy) pelvis
5. (geography) basin, catchment (An area of water that drains into a river)

• λεκάνη απορροής f (lekáni aporroḯs, “drainage basin”)

• αποχωρητήριο m (apochoritírio, “toilet, WC”)
• τουαλέτα f (toualéta, “toilet, WC”)