migdal

See also: migdał

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew מגדל (“tower”).

Noun

migdal (plural migdals)

1. A fortified tower built in biblical times.
   • 1924, Benjamin Wisner Bacon, The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research:

     If we leave the citadels of walled cities hitherto studied out of consideration, because of the fact that they are planned to meet other contingencies, we find only one group of migdals which has been examined, though inadequately — the fortresses in the Negeb, knowledge of which we owe to Woolley and Lawrence (PEF Annuall, III, pp. 41, 3).

   • 2002, Dr. Phillip Goble, The Orthodox Jewish Bible (Shofetim 9:51), →ISBN, page 243:

     But there "was a migdal oz within the Ir, and there fled all the anashim and nashim. and all ba'alei haIr, and locked it after them, and got them up to the top of the migdal.

   • 2005, William G. Dever, Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel, →ISBN:

     The building has been called a “migdal” (Hebrew “fortress”) temple because of its massive walls, up to fifteen feet thick; its two towers at the entrance; and its presumed second or even third stories.

   • 2014, Simcha Jacobovici, Barrie Wilson, The Lost Gospel, →ISBN:

     Migdals or towers, part of temple precincts, were places of refuge.

Romanian

migdal

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic мигдалъ (migdalŭ), from Greek αμύγδαλο (amýgdalo).

Noun

migdal m (plural migdali)

1. almond (tree)

Declension

Declension of migdal

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) migdal	migdalul	(niște) migdali	migdalii
genitive/dative	(unui) migdal	migdalului	(unor) migdali	migdalilor
vocative	migdalule		migdalilor

Derived terms

• migdală