köken: From Middle High German bloc, from Old High German bloc. The more common Middle High German form was originally bloch, from Old High German bloh. The variant prevailed in modern German under the reinforcing influence of Middle Low German block. All from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką. The architectural sense is loaned from English block (and may therefore take a plural in…
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic اَلْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient”), from μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”), from μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).
köken: Reborrowing from French amalgame, from Medieval Latin amalgama, from Arabic مَلْغَم (malḡam), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμᾰ (málagmă). Doublet of μάλαμα (málama).
a property with houses in the countryside (sometimes along with farmland, pasture, etc.); an estate, a homestead, a farmstead, a ranch, etc. · a farm · a property with a main building and smaller buildings (more generally); often translatable as "center"
çekim: çoğul gårdar · tamlayan gårds
köken: From Old Swedish garþer, from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).
walled enclosure · defensive wall, bawn, bulwark, bailey · breakwater (construction in or around a harbour)
çekim: çoğul bábhúin · tamlayan bábhúin
köken: From Middle Irish badún, possibly a compound of ba (“cows”) + dún (“fortress”) The older spelling badhbhdhún implies a compound of badhbh (“war goddess; vulture”) + dún, though this is semantically unlikely.