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 Proto-Slavic *stъlbъ. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic стлъба (stlŭba, “summit”), Lithuanian stul̃bas, Latvian stulbs, Old Norse stolpi (“pillar”).
pillar (large post, vertical support structure) · pillar (essential support or principle)
çekim: çoğul pijlers
eş: pilaar, zuil
köken: From Middle Dutch pijler, pijlre, from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, either directly or via Middle Low German piler. Doublet of pilaar, which is a later borrowing from Medieval Latin.
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.
köken: First attested in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), 1511. as Middle Korean 기도ᇰ (kitwong), from older suffixless form 긷 (kit) (First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446.). Compare dialectal forms 기동 (gidong, Hamgyeong/Gangwon/Chungcheong/Jeolla), 지둥 (jidung, Chungnam), 지동 (jidong, Gyeongsang/Chungbuk/Jeju), 기듕 (gidyung, Hambuk), 지뒹 (jidwing, Hambuk), etc.
köken: Deverbal from захисти́ти (zaxystýty). From root хист- (xyst-), possibly related to хи́жа (xýža). Etymologically unrelated to homosemous Russian защи́та (zaščíta).
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic стлъпъ (stlŭpŭ, “pillar, column, tower”), from Proto-Slavic *stъlpъ, alternative form of *stъlbъ. Compare Russian столп (stolp).
retaining wall (especially one along a waterfront) · wharf · bulwark, safeguard
çekim: çoğul bolværker · tamlayan bolværks
köken: From Old Danish bulwærk, from Middle Low German bolwerk, from bole (“plank”) and werk (“work, works”). Compare Dutch bolwerk, German Bollwerk, Norwegian bolverk, Old Norse bolvirki and Swedish bålverk. Doublet of boulevard.