fortress

Etymology
Early 14 c., from, variant of , from , from (see ), added to adjectives to form nouns of quality or condition. 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬 is also in words such as, and. For change of medial -l- to -r- in Old French, compare from ;  from  and  from. .

Noun

 * 1) A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
 * 2)  A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.
 * 1)  A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.

Translations

 * Ainu: チャシ
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: قَلْعَة,
 * Moroccan Arabic: قلعة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: tsitati, grãditã
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: крэ́пасць, фартэ́цыя, цвердзь, фартэ́ца
 * Bengali:, , কোট
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: yāōcalli
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Dzongkha: རྫོང
 * Erzya: кемечикудо
 * Esperanto: fortreso, fortiko
 * Estonian: kindlus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ციხესიმაგრე
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φρούριον, ὀχύρωμα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, क़िला,
 * Hungarian: vár#Hungarian-castle, ,
 * Icelandic: virki
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: kreeposti
 * Irish: dún
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: шивә
 * Karakalpak: qorg'an
 * Kazakh: бекініс, қамал
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 성새(城塞)
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປ້ອມ, ບຸລະ
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian: cietoksnis
 * Lithuanian: tvirtovė
 * Macedonian: твр́дина, ка́ле, кре́пост
 * Malay: ,
 * Maranao: ilian
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Norman: fortéresse
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: festning
 * Nynorsk: festning
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: fæsten
 * Ottoman Turkish: حصار, حصن, قلعه, قله
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Potawatomi: wakaigin
 * Quechua: pukara
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Scots: fortress
 * Scottish Gaelic: dùn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: твр̀ђава, у̏тврда, тврђа
 * Roman:, ,
 * Shona: svingo
 * Slovak: pevnosť, tvrdza
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: grod
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: қалъа,
 * Tashelhit: ⵜⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔⵜ
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: gala
 * Ukrainian:, крі́пость, тверди́ня
 * Urdu: قِلْعَہ, قَلْعَہ
 * Uyghur: قەلئە
 * Uzbek: qalʻa
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: פֿעסטונג
 * Zhuang: yausai


 * German:

Verb

 * 1)  To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard, to fortify.