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.
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.
parapet (a piece of wood, generally at chest height, that makes up the inside of a window and is used as support by people leaning against it) · parapet (land mass that protects the defender from frontal fire and allows the firing of their weapon to occur) · balustrade, guardrail (protection at the edge of piers, bridges, terraces, etc.)
çekim: çoğul parapeitos
eş: peitoril
köken: Compound of parar + peito or borrowed from Italian parapetto.
Ela estava sentada no parapeito da janela do quarto [...]
earthwork, particularly defensive ramparts or bulwarks, dykes, dams, causeways, and piers · rubble or earth used or intended for such earthwork · any rampart or defensive wall
çekim: çoğul aggerēs · tamlayan aggeris
köken: If not directly from aggerō (“carry towards”), from its root.