alcazar (Moorish fortress in Spain) · citadel, castle, fortified town · quarterdeck
çekim: çoğul alcázares
eş: fortaleza
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish alcáçar, alcaçar, alcácer (c. 1253), Arabic الْقَصْر (al-qaṣr), via Andalusian Arabic, from Aramaic קַצְרָא (qaṣrā), from Latin castrum. Doublet of castro and castillo.
citadel (strong fortress that sits high above a city)
çekim: çoğul ارگها
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (arg), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-. Cognates include Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”) and Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō), Latin arx (“citadel”).
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…
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian قلعه (qal'a), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa). Compare with Bengali কেল্লা (kella), Marathi किल्ला (killā), Punjabi ਕਿਲ੍ਹਾ (kilhā).