köken: From Old Occitan or Old French balouart, from Middle Dutch bolwerc, from Middle High German bolwerc, from bole (“plank, beam”) (from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ) + werc (“work”). Related to English bulwark. Doublet of boulevard.
La mejor arma es la oración y el más terrible baluarte las virtudes y el buen ejemplo.
bulwark (a defensive wall or rampart) · bulwark (a defense or safeguard) · linchpin (central cohesive source of stability and security)
çekim: çoğul baluartes
köken: From Old Occitan or Old French balouart, from Middle Dutch bolwerc, from Middle High German bolwerc, from bole (“plank, beam”) (from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ) + werc (“work”). Related to English bulwark. Doublet of bulevar.
köken: From Old Swedish bolverk or bulværk, from Middle Low German bolwerk. Superficially equivalent to bål (“bole; stem; sturdy plank”) + verk. Doublet of bulevard. Cognate of German Bollwerk, Danish bolværk, Dutch bolwerk, English bulwark, French boulevard.
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: Deverbal from захисти́ти (zaxystýty). From root хист- (xyst-), possibly related to хи́жа (xýža). Etymologically unrelated to homosemous Russian защи́та (zaščíta).
retaining wall (especially one along a waterfront) · wharf · bulwark, safeguard
çekim: çoğul bolværker · tamlayan bolværks
köken: From Old Danish bulwærk, from Middle Low German bolwerk, from bole (“plank”) and werk (“work, works”). Compare Dutch bolwerk, German Bollwerk, Norwegian bolverk, Old Norse bolvirki and Swedish bålverk. Doublet of boulevard.