castle

Etymology
From, , from late , , borrowed from , diminutive of , possibly from. . Parallel borrowings (from Late Latin or Old French) are 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The Middle English word was reinforced by /, itself from Late Latin (compare modern French  from Old French ). If Latin is from Proto-Indo-European, 🇨🇬 is related. Possibly related also to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See also,.

Noun

 * 1) A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
 * 2)  An instance of castling.
 * 3)  A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
 * 4)  A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
 * 5)  A close helmet.
 * 6)  Any strong, imposing, and stately palace or mansion.
 * 7)  A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
 * 8)  The wicket.
 * 1)  The wicket.

Usage notes
For the chess piece, chess players prefer the term rook.

Translations

 * Adyghe: къэлэсэраи
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, këshqel,
 * Arabic: قَلْعَة, قِلْعَة, بُرْج,
 * Hijazi Arabic: قَلْعة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: culã
 * Asturian: ,
 * Avar: хъала
 * Azerbaijani:, ,
 * Baekje: 己
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: за́мак
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: гӏала
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 城堡
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dalmatian: castial
 * Danish:, borg, herregård
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto: kastelo
 * Estonian: kindlus, linnus
 * Extremaduran: castillu
 * Faroese: slott, borg
 * Finnish:
 * Franco-Provençal: châtél
 * French: ,
 * Old French: chastel, castel
 * Friulian: cjiscjel, cjistiel, čhisčhel
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ციხე-დარბაზი,
 * German:, ,
 * Goguryeo: 忽
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: ἀκρόπολις, φρούριον
 * Greenlandic: pallittaalisaq, illussaarsuaq
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: क़िला,, ,
 * Hungarian: vár#Hungarian-castle,
 * Icelandic:, , virki,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: castello
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: қамал, сарай
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: замок, ,
 * Ladino: kastilyo
 * Lao: ປາງ, ມຸນທຽນ, ປາສາດ, ຜາສາດ
 * Latgalian: piļs
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:, , Festung
 * Macedonian: замок
 * Malay:, kastil
 * Maltese: kastell
 * Marathi:, दुर्ग, गड
 * Mirandese: castielho
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Neapolitan: castiello
 * Norman: châté
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Okinawan: 城
 * Old East Slavic: костьръ
 * Old English: castel, fæsten, burg,
 * Old High German: burg
 * Old Korean: 忽
 * Old Saxon: burg, burh, burug
 * Ossetian: галуан
 * Ottoman Turkish: حصار, حصن
 * Pashto:, کلا
 * Persian:
 * Dari:, , , ,
 * Iranian Persian:, , , ,
 * Picard: catiau
 * Plautdietsch: Schlott
 * Polabian: gord
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: pukara
 * Romani: dyiz
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: chastè, chastè-fortezza
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: casteddu
 * Scots: castle
 * Scottish Gaelic: caisteal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дво́рац
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: casteḍḍu
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: grod
 * Upper Sorbian: hród
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tabasaran: гъала
 * Tagalog: kastilyo
 * Tajik: қалъа,, қаср
 * Tamil: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , , ,
 * Turkmen: gala, saraý
 * Ukrainian: за́мок
 * Urdu: دُرْگ, قِلْعَہ, قَلْعَہ, گَڑْھ, بُرْج
 * Uyghur: قەلئە, قەسىر, ساراي
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Venetian: casteło, castel, casteo
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian:, slot
 * Yiddish: שלאָס, בורג
 * Zazaki: qela,

Verb

 * 1)  To house or keep in a castle.
 * 2) * 1611, John Florio, Queen Anna's New World of Words, s.v. "Castellare":
 * ...to encastle, to Castle.
 * 1)  To protect or separate in a similar way.
 * 2) * 1655, William Gurnall, The Christian in Compleat Armour, 1st Pt., 32:
 * Castle me in the armes of thy everlasting strength.
 * 1)  To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.
 * 2)  To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
 * 3)  To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
 * 4)  To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
 * 1)  To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
 * 2)  To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
 * 1)  To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.

Synonyms

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Translations

 * Bulgarian: правя рокада
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 王車易位
 * Czech: rochovat, provést rošádu
 * Danish: rokere
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: aroko
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: enrocar
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hrókera
 * Ido:
 * Irish: caisligh
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: face rocadă
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: vykonať rošádu
 * Slovene: rokirati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: rok atmak
 * Ukrainian: