köken: From Middle High German vestunge, from vesten (“to fasten, to secure”), from Old High German festen, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz (“firm, secure”). Compare Dutch vesting, English fastness (“fortress”).
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
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).
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)
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.
fort (a fortified defensive structure stationed with troops) · bulwark a defensive wall or rampart · rook; castle
çekim: çoğul benteng-benteng
köken: From Malay benteng. * The sense “bulwark” is a semantic loan from Javanese bètèng. * The sense in chess is a semantic loan from Dutch kasteel (“rook (dated)”, literally “castle”).