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Do you have something similar in your language group?

When you have the same word in a few similar languages that means similar but different things, example:
In the language spoken in Montenegro gora means mountain.
In Polish gora also means mountain.
In Bulgarian gora means forest.
What?
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English
Hindi
Marathi
Gujrati
... & probably most of the Indian Languages.
english: squirrel or chipmunk
french: écureuil
german: Hoernchen
but in
french: croissant
British English and American English have many examples.
Tube in American is any number of shaft-like objects. The definition of tube I've heard of in British is the mass transit rail system.

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