siege

Etymology
From, from , , (modern ), from , from , , from.

Noun

 * 1)  Military action.
 * 2) A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
 * 3)  A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.
 * 4)  A prolonged assault or attack.
 * 5)  A seat.
 * 6)  A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.
 * 1)  A seat.
 * 2)  A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.
 * 1)  A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.


 * 1)  An ecclesiastical see.
 * 2)  The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.
 * 3) The seat of a heron while looking out for prey.
 * 4) A flock of heron.
 * 5)  A toilet seat.
 * 6)  The anus; the rectum.
 * 7)  Excrements, stool, fecal matter.
 * 8)  Rank; grade; station; estimation.
 * 9)  The floor of a glass-furnace.
 * 10)  A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
 * 1)  Rank; grade; station; estimation.
 * 2)  The floor of a glass-furnace.
 * 3)  A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
 * 1)  A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:bathroom

Translations

 * Afrikaans: beleëring, beleg
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حِصَار, مُحَاصَرَة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: asediu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: setio
 * Belarusian:, блака́да
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 攻城戰,, ,
 * Czech: obležení
 * Danish: belejring
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: sieĝo
 * Estonian: piiramine
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , cerco
 * Georgian: ალყა, ბლოკადა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πολιορκία
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: herkví, umsátur
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: léigear
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 攻城戦,
 * Kazakh:, қоршау
 * Khmer: ការឡោមព័ទ្ធ
 * Korean: 공성전(攻城戰),
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Latin: obsidiō, obsessiō
 * Latvian: aplenkums
 * Lithuanian: apgula
 * Macedonian: опсада
 * Malay: pengepungan
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål: beleiring
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: omleiring
 * Pashto: محاصره
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sèist
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏псада
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: obliehanie
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:, муҳосара
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: обло́га,
 * Urdu: محاصرہ, گھِیرا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * 1)  To assault or blockade a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.

Noun

 * 1)  prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition
 * 2) seat (place where one sits)