Word Origins | Karambol

Karambol:  "bir bilardo oyunu" [ Ahmed Rasim, Şehir Mektupları, 1897] ayrı bir bilardo salonu var ki bamkota, karambol, İtalyan vesaire oynanmaktadır. [ TDK, Türkçe Sözlük, 1. Baskı, 1945] karambol: 1. Bilardo oyununda isteka ile vurulan bilyanın ötekilere çarpması. 2. Çarpışma. FR carambole 1. bilardoda kırmızı top, 2. bilardoda endirekt vuruş veya birden fazla topa vurma  SP carambola Hindistan kökenli kırmızı top biçimli bir meyve

"bilardo oyunu" [ Ahmet Rasim, Şehir Mektupları (1899) : ayrı bir bilardo salonu var ki bamkota, karambol, İtalyan vesaire oynanmaktadır. ] "1. bilardoda kırmızı top, kırmızı topu sektirerek birkaç topa değdirme, 2. üstüste darbelere uğrama" carambola. (star fruit) red (ball) Il a raté son coup de peu ; il est passé à deux millimètres de la carambole. He just missed the shot; he missed the red ball by two millimeters.

French billiards La carambole est une variante de billard qui se joue à deux ou plusieurs joueurs, sur une table sans poche, avec des queues et trois billes : La blanche, la pointée (ou le pointu, également blanche parfois jaune) et la carambole (rouge). French billiards is a billiard game played by two or more players, on a billiard table with no pockets, using cues and three balls: the white, the dotted (also white but sometimes yellow) and the “carambole” (the red). (cue sports, dated) cannon. Ne traduisez plus l'anglais “a carom” par “une carambole” ; préférez le terme “un carambolage” plus fréquent aujourd'hui. The English term “a carom” should no longer be translated as “une carambole”; instead use “un carambolage”, which is more common today. carom (n.) 1779, "the hitting of two or three balls in succession by the cue ball at a single stroke," a shortening and alteration of carambole (1775), from French carambole "the red ball in billiards," from Spanish carombola "the red ball in billiards," perhaps originally "fruit of the tropical Asian carambola tree," which is round and orange and supposed to resemble a red billiard ball; from Marathi (southern Indian) karambal: If the Striker hits the Red and his Adversary's Ball with his own Ball he played with, he wins two Points; which Stroke is called a Carambole, or for Shortness, a Carrom. ["Hoyle's Games Improved," London, 1779] carom (v.) 1860, "to strike or collide with a thing and then rebound or glance off," from carom (n.). Related: Caromed; caroming. The word carom, which simply means any strike and rebound, was in use in reference to billiards by at least 1779, sometimes spelled "carrom". Sources differ on the origin. It has been pegged variously as a shortening of the Spanish and Portuguese word carambola, or the French word carambole, which are used to describe the red object ball. Some etymologists have suggested that carambola, in turn, was derived from a yellow-to-orange, tropical Asian fruit also known in Portuguese as a carambola (which was a corruption of the original name of the fruit, karambal in the Marathi language of India), also known as star fruit. But this may simply be folk etymology, as the fruit bears no resemblance to a billiard ball, and there is no direct evidence for such a derivation. In modern French, the word carambolage means 'successive collision', currently used mainly in reference to carom or cannon shots in billiards, and to multiple-vehicle car crashes). multiple crash, pileup.