fortress, fortification
çekim: çoğul Festungen · tamlayan Festungen
eş: Feste
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”).
bastion · stronghold
çekim: çoğul bastions
köken: Inherited from Middle French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”) or Italian bastione. .
bastion, bulwark
çekim: çoğul bastiones
köken: Borrowed from Italian bastione.
aile: abastionar
bastion · battlements
çekim: çoğul bastioni
eş: argine, baluardo, castello, casamatta, forte, fortezza
köken: See bastia (“bastion”)
stronghold (also figuratively)
çekim: çoğul тверды́ни · tamlayan тверды́ни
eş: крепость, цитадель, бастион, фортеция, замок, оплот
köken: твёрдый (tvjórdyj) + -ы́ня (-ýnja)
castle · tower
çekim: çoğul qalalar · tamlayan qalanın
köken: Ultimately from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa).
fortress · castle
çekim: çoğul бекіністер · tamlayan бекіністің
eş: қамал, қорған
fortress, stronghold · high wattle and daub fence on a hill · sheepfold
çekim: çoğul коргондор · tamlayan коргондун
castle, fort
çekim: çoğul قەلئىلەر
köken: From Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa).
bastion; a projecting part of a rampart
çekim: çoğul bastions
eş: bolwerk, citadel, vestingwerk, schans
köken: Borrowed from Middle French bastion.
Fortaleza (a municipality, the state capital of Ceará, Brazil)
çekim: çoğul fortalezas
köken: Ellipsis of Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora de Assunção (literally “Fort of Our Lady of the Assumption”).
aile: Fortal, Unifor
οχυρωμένο φρούριο ή θέση, απ’ όπου αμύνονται οι αμυνόμενοι
citadel; fortress; stronghold
köken: Sino-Korean word from 城塞.
definite natural masculine singular of fäst
çekim: çoğul fästen · tamlayan fästes
fort, citadel
çekim: çoğul क़िले
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian قلعه (qal'a), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa). Compare with Bengali কেল্লা (kella), Marathi किल्ला (killā), Punjabi ਕਿਲ੍ਹਾ (kilhā).
🔊 यह क़िला क्या है भूलभुलैयाँ है।
stronghold, fortress, citadel · stronghold (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
çekim: çoğul linnakkeet · tamlayan linnakkeen
köken: linna + -ke
aile: vartiolinnake
verbal noun of opevnit · fortification
çekim: çoğul opevněním
citadel, fortress · city
çekim: çoğul cetăți · tamlayan cetăți
eş: citadelă, fortăreață
köken: Inherited from Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”).
aile: cetățean, cetățuie
fort (any permanent army post)
çekim: çoğul erődök
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.
stronghold, castle, citadel, fortress, acropolis · defence, protection, refuge, bulwark · tyranny (with arx as the abode of tyrants)
çekim: çoğul arcēs · tamlayan arcis
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard, hold, lock”). Cognates include Latin arca (“chest, box”), arceō (“to defend”), arcānus (“hidden, secret”), arcera (“covered carriage for sick people”), Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”) and Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō, “to ward off, fend off”), Persian ارگ (arg, “citadel”)
🔊 ... Trōiaque, nunc stārēs, Priamīque arx alta, manērēs.
🔊 venit in hoc illa fulmen ab arce caput.
castle, stronghold
çekim: çoğul borge · tamlayan borgs
köken: From Old Danish borgh, burg, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), cognate with German Burg (“castle”) and English borough. The Germanic noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise”), which is also the source of Danish bjerg (“mountain”).
🔊 På borg.