strong; powerful · (informal) skilled, proficient, successful, sometimes translated "good" (often used in reference to academic subjects) · who can count on
çekim: çoğul forts
eş: ferme, grand, gros, robuste
zıt: faible
köken: Inherited from Old French fort, from Latin fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis.
aile: à plus forte raison, au prix fort, c'est plus fort que moi, employer la manière forte, esprit fort, faire fort, fort comme un bœuf, fort comme un Turc, fort de café, haut et fort
köken: Iranian (Parthian?), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoyǵʰhos (“wall”), from the root *dʰeyǵʰ-; see there for further information. The less common form دز (dez) is from Middle Persian KLYTA / dc (diz, “fortress”)
aile: Fort Anké, Fort Batticaloa, Fort Belgica, Fort Calpentijn, Fort Colombo, Fort Dindingh, Fort Frederick, Fort Frederik Hendrik, Fort Galle, Fort Geldria
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).
wedge (simple machine) · wedge (five-sided polyhedron) · wedge (something that creates a division)
çekim: çoğul kiilat · tamlayan kiilan
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German kīl (“wedge”), possibly but not necessarily through Swedish kil (“wedge”). Even an older Proto-Germanic borrowing has been suggested, but this runs into phonetic difficulties (the Low German word derives from earlier *kīþla-).
köken: From the clipping of erőde, from erő (“strength, force”) + -de (noun-forming suffix) Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.