castle (fortified building or similar structure; winegrower's estate)
çekim: çoğul châteaux
köken: Inherited from Middle French chasteau, château, chastel, from Old French chastel, from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum. Cognate with Italian castello, Portuguese castelo, Romanian castel, Spanish castillo
aile: château de cartes, château de sable, château d'eau, château gonflable, château la pompe, château lapompe, château-fort, châteaux en Espagne, lettre de château, Salses-le-Château
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).
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…
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).
castle (large fortified residential building) · castle (house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles) · palace (official residence of a head of state or other dignitary)
castle, fort, citadel, fortress, stronghold · a dwelling in a high place · a shelter, stronghold, defence, refuge
çekim: çoğul castella · tamlayan castellī
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱes-der. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder. Proto-Italic *kastrom Latin castrum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lum Latin castellum From castrum (“fort”) + -lum (diminutive suffix).