moat

Etymology
From, from ; compare also 🇨🇬, from , of origin, perhaps via , , from , , , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at, ,.

As term for a business strategy, popularized by American investor.

Noun

 * 1) A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
 * 2)  An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, because of the nature of its products, services or franchise or for some other reason.
 * 3) A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
 * 4)  A clear ring outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
 * 5)  A hill or mound.
 * 1) A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
 * 2)  A clear ring outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
 * 3)  A hill or mound.
 * 1)  A hill or mound.

Translations

 * Arabic: خَنْدَق
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: роў
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 護城壕,, 城壕,
 * Czech: vodní příkop,
 * Danish: voldgrav
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: fosaĵo
 * Estonian: vallikraav
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: foso, cárcava
 * Georgian: თხრილი, გუბი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ख़ंदक़,, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: kastalasíki, síki, virkisgröf, kastaladíki,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: móta, díog
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: ор
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 해자,, 성호(城濠)
 * Latin: fossa
 * Latvian: aizsarggrāvis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: шанец, ров
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: awamate
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: vollgrav
 * Occitan: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: خندق
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шанац
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: priekopa
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, stormgrav
 * Tajik: хандақ
 * Tamil: பாதுகாப்பு பள்ளம்
 * Thai: คูปราสาท,
 * Tibetan: ཆུ་དོང་ལྕགས་རི
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: خندق, کھائی
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: ffos

Verb

 * 1)  To surround with a moat.