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.
köken: Argued to be a loan from Aramaic שׂוּרָא / ܫܘܪܐ (šūrā), but other cognates such as Sabaean 𐩣𐩬𐩪𐩥𐩧𐩩 (mns¹wrt, “walls”) and Tigre ሶር (sor, “partition wall”) (unless that form is itself borrowed from Arabic) suggest that it may in fact be inherited.
wall · wall (figuratively, any barrier which limits access) · a type of fast-food vending machine with compartments arranged similar to a wall that contain snacks (chiefly in the phrase "uit de muur trekken")
çekim: çoğul muren
eş: wand, weeg, wal
köken: From Middle Dutch muur, mure, from Old Dutch *mūr, *mūra, from Latin mūrus.
a (usually free-standing) wall built of overlapping bricks or stones or cement or the like · a wall (defensive structure surrounding a city, castle, etc.) · the type of material such a wall is made of, usually brick (including when not making up a free-standing wall)
çekim: çoğul murar · tamlayan murs
köken: From Old Swedish mur, from Latin murus, possibly through an intermediate like Middle Low German mûre.
aile: murbruk, murgröna, ringmur, stadsmur, tiga som muren
wall (defensive rampart) · wall (structure built for defense surrounding an area)
çekim: çoğul mury · tamlayan muru
eş: ściana
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Italic *moiros Latin mūrusbor. Proto-West Germanic *mūrā Old High German mūra Middle High German mūrbor. Old Polish mur Polish mur Inherited from Old Polish mur, borrowed from Middle High German mūr, from Old High German mūra.
köken: Borrowed from French barrière, from Old French barriere, from barre, from Vulgar Latin *barra, possibly from Frankish *bara, from Proto-Germanic *barō. First attested in the 19th century.