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 boulevard.
La mejor arma es la oración y el más terrible baluarte las virtudes y el buen ejemplo.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic крѣпость (krěpostĭ, “strength”), from Proto-Slavic *krěpostь, from *krěpъ (“strong”) + *-ostь. Senses related to fortification attested since 16th-17th centuries. Possibly influenced by German Festung (“fortress”).
«Я слышал, — сказал я довольно некстати, — что на вашу крепость собираются напасть башкирцы».
fortification (especially one that fully encircles the defended position)
köken: Arabic plural of استحکام (estehkâm), from Arabic اِسْتِحْكَام (istiḥkām, “intensification, becoming fortified”). Probably a calque of French fortification, likely via Ottoman Turkish استحكامات (istihkamat).
bastion, stronghold (place built to withstand attack) · bastion, stronghold (place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea) · bastion (person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle)
çekim: çoğul bastiony · tamlayan bastionu
eş: beluarda, bulwar
köken: Borrowed from French bastion, from Old French bastille.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian قلعه (qal'a), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa). Compare with Bengali কেল্লা (kella), Marathi किल्ला (killā), Punjabi ਕਿਲ੍ਹਾ (kilhā).
stronghold, castle, citadel, fortress, acropolis · defence, protection, refuge, bulwark · tyranny (with arx as the abode of tyrants)
çekim: çoğul arcēs · tamlayan arcis
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard, hold, lock”). Cognates include Latin arca (“chest, box”), arceō (“to defend”), arcānus (“hidden, secret”), arcera (“covered carriage for sick people”), Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”) and Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō, “to ward off, fend off”), Persian ارگ (arg, “citadel”)
... Trōiaque, nunc stārēs, Priamīque arx alta, manērēs.
venit in hoc illa fulmen ab arce caput.
Etimoloji
From Middle High German vestunge, from vesten (“to fasten, to secure”), from Old High German festen, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz (“firm, secure”). Compare Dutch vesting, English fastness (“fortress”).