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.
rook (a black bird whose large flocks signal the arrival of spring)
çekim: çoğul грачи́ · tamlayan грача́
köken: Originally Russian word formed from the onomatopoeia гра (gra) + -ач (-ač). Cf. ка́ркать (kárkatʹ) and other similar words with onomatopoeic origin, such as Ukrainian грак (hrak, “rook”) and крук (kruk, “raven”).
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: From Old Galician-Portuguese enganar, from Early Medieval Latin ingannāre (“to trick, to deceive”) (attested in a gloss), from Latin gannīre. Compare Spanish engañar, Italian ingannare.
köken: Inherited from Old Norse hrókr, from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (“crow, rook”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to crow”); see rook for more.
Jag råkade välta vasen, men det var inte meningen!
... tågresande över gränser i internationell trafik, som råkar i svårigheter ...
tower, especially a military tower for siege, advanced to the walls on wheels, or one on a wall for defense; loosely used of a high building · rook
çekim: çoğul turrēs · tamlayan turrium
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis), likely ultimately a Mediterranean substrate loan. Compare Τυρρηνός (Turrhēnós, “Etruscan”). Also compare the tribe Taurini.
fort (a fortified defensive structure stationed with troops) · bulwark a defensive wall or rampart · rook; castle
çekim: çoğul benteng-benteng
köken: From Malay benteng. * The sense “bulwark” is a semantic loan from Javanese bètèng. * The sense in chess is a semantic loan from Dutch kasteel (“rook (dated)”, literally “castle”).