fortress

English

Etymology

Old French forteresce, from Medieval Latin

Pronunciation

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Noun

Wikipedia fortress (plural fortresses)

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

Translations

fortified place

• Ainu: チャシ (chashi)
• Albanian: kala (sq)
• Arabic: قلعة (ar) (qálʿa) f, حصن (ar) (ḥiṣn) m
• Armenian: ամրոց (hy) (amroc'), բերդ (hy) (berd)
• Belarusian: крэпасць (be) (krépasc’) f
• Bulgarian: крепост (bg) (krépost) f
• Catalan: fortalesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 要塞 (cmn) (yàosài), 城堡 (cmn) (chéngbǎo), 堡壘 (cmn), 堡垒 (cmn) (bǎolěi)

• Czech: pevnost (cs) f
• Danish: fæstning (da) c
• Dutch: vesting (nl)
• Esperanto: fortreso (eo), fortiko (eo)
• Finnish: linnoitus (fi)
• French: forteresse (fr) f
• Georgian: ციხესიმაგრე (ka) (tsixesimagre)
• German: Festung (de) f
• Greek: φρούριο (el) (froúrio) n
• Hebrew: מִבְצָר (he) (mivtsár) m
• Hindi: गढी (hi) (gaḍhī)
• Hungarian: vár (hu)
• Ido: fortreso (io)
• Irish: dún (ga)
• Italian: fortezza (it) f, rocca (it) f
• Japanese: 要塞 (ja) (ようさい, yōsai)
• Jèrriais: fortéresse f
• Khmer: បន្ទាយ (km) (banteay)

• Korean: 요새 (ko) (yosae) (要塞 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: قه‌ڵا

• Latin: castellum (la) n
• Latvian: cietoksnis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: tvirtovė (lt) f
• Macedonian: тврдина (mk) (tv'rdina) f, кале (mk) (kále) n, крепост (mk) (krépost) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: festning (no) f and m

  Nynorsk: festning (nn) m and f

• Old English: fæsten (ang) n
• Persian: دژ (fa) (dež)
• Polish: fort (pl) m
• Portuguese: fortaleza (pt) f
• Romanian: cetate (ro) f, fortăreață (ro) f
• Russian: крепость (ru) (krépost’) f
• Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
• Scots: fortress
• Scottish Gaelic: dùn (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: твр̀ђава (sh) f, у̏тврда (sh) f, тврђа (sh) f

  Roman: tvr̀đava (sh) f, ȕtvrda (sh) f, tvȑđa (sh) f

• Spanish: fortaleza (es) f
• Swedish: fästning (sv) c
• Turkish: kale (tr)
• Ukrainian: фортеця (uk) (fortécja) f
• Welsh: caer (cy) f
• Yiddish: פעסטונג (yi) (festung) f

See also

• fortalice, fortilice

Verb

fortress (third-person singular simple present fortresses, present participle fortressing, simple past and past participle fortressed)

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