billow, roller, large wave (also figuratively) · rampart, dyke, wall (an earthen embankment, possibly faced with stone, used as a defensive fortification) · barrage fire
çekim: çoğul валы́ · tamlayan ва́ла
eş: насыпь, волна, шпиндель
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic валъ (valŭ), from Proto-Slavic *valъ.
köken: Argued to be a loan from Aramaic שׂוּרָא / ܫܘܪܐ (šūrā), but other cognates such as Sabaean 𐩣𐩬𐩪𐩥𐩧𐩩 (mns¹wrt, “walls”) and Tigre ሶር (sor, “partition wall”) (unless that form is itself borrowed from Arabic) suggest that it may in fact be inherited.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *dʰóyǵʰos Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰáyȷ́ʰas Proto-Iranian *dáyjah Old Persian 𐎮𐎡𐎭𐎠 (di-i-d-a /didā-/) Proto-Indo-European *wer- Proto-Indo-European *wor-os Proto-Indo-Iranian *wārás Proto-Iranian *wārah Old Persian *-wāra Middle Persian dywʾl (/dēwār/) Persian دیوار Inherited from Middle Persian dywʾl…
aile: دیوار کوتاه, دیواره
گرچه دیوار افکند سایهی دراز باز گردد سوی او آن سایه باز
wall · wall (figuratively, any barrier which limits access) · a type of fast-food vending machine with compartments arranged similar to a wall that contain snacks (chiefly in the phrase "uit de muur trekken")
çekim: çoğul muren
eş: wand, weeg, wal
köken: From Middle Dutch muur, mure, from Old Dutch *mūr, *mūra, from Latin mūrus.
bulwark (a defensive wall or rampart) · bulwark (a defense or safeguard) · linchpin (central cohesive source of stability and security)
çekim: çoğul baluartes
köken: From Old Occitan or Old French balouart, from Middle Dutch bolwerc, from Middle High German bolwerc, from bole (“plank, beam”) (from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ) + werc (“work”). Related to English bulwark. Doublet of bulevar.
a (usually free-standing) wall built of overlapping bricks or stones or cement or the like · a wall (defensive structure surrounding a city, castle, etc.) · the type of material such a wall is made of, usually brick (including when not making up a free-standing wall)
çekim: çoğul murar · tamlayan murs
köken: From Old Swedish mur, from Latin murus, possibly through an intermediate like Middle Low German mûre.
aile: murbruk, murgröna, ringmur, stadsmur, tiga som muren
wall (defensive rampart) · wall (structure built for defense surrounding an area)
çekim: çoğul mury · tamlayan muru
eş: ściana
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Italic *moiros Latin mūrusbor. Proto-West Germanic *mūrā Old High German mūra Middle High German mūrbor. Old Polish mur Polish mur Inherited from Old Polish mur, borrowed from Middle High German mūr, from Old High German mūra.
From Middle High German mūre, from Old High German mūra, from Proto-West Germanic *mūrā, from Latin mūrus, from Proto-Italic *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey-. Cognate with Yiddish מויער (moyer).