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.
citadel, castle, borough · burrow of a badger, fox or beaver
çekim: çoğul burchten
eş: slot
köken: From Middle Dutch borcht / burcht, alteration of earlier Middle Dutch burch / borch (surviving as modern Dutch burg), from Old Dutch burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”). The final -t is seemingly random, but not unheard of; such "paragogic" extensions occur occasionally in Dutch following a fricative or liquid…
köken: Etymology tree Italian forte Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -itia Italian -ezza Italian fortezzabor. Polish forteca Borrowed from Italian fortezza.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian قلعه (qal'a), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa). Compare with Bengali কেল্লা (kella), Marathi किल्ला (killā), Punjabi ਕਿਲ੍ਹਾ (kilhā).