alcazar (Moorish fortress in Spain) · citadel, castle, fortified town · quarterdeck
çekim: çoğul alcázares
eş: fortaleza
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish alcáçar, alcaçar, alcácer (c. 1253), Arabic الْقَصْر (al-qaṣr), via Andalusian Arabic, from Aramaic קַצְרָא (qaṣrā), from Latin castrum. Doublet of castro and castillo.
citadel (strong fortress that sits high above a city)
çekim: çoğul ارگها
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (arg), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-. Cognates include Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”) and Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō), Latin arx (“citadel”).
Borrowed from Italian cittadella with influence from French citadelle. First attested in 1453, replacing earlier Schloss, and used alongside Stadtfestung or Stadtburg.