Bulwark

Etymology
From, from , and , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. (from 🇨🇬, from Dutch); cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 baluarte and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A defensive wall or rampart.
 * 2) A defense or safeguard.
 * The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence, the floating bulwark of the island.
 * 1) A breakwater.
 * 2)  The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
 * 3)  Any means of defence or security.
 * 1)  Any means of defence or security.
 * 1)  Any means of defence or security.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: реду́т, бастио́н
 * Catalan: baluard
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: remparo
 * Estonian: kaitsevall
 * Finnish: ; suojamuuri, suojavalli
 * French:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍄𐌿𐌻𐌲𐌹𐌸𐌰
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bolvirki, bolverk
 * Ido:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Maori: papatū, pākai
 * Old Norse: bolvirki
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bàbhan, mùr
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ,
 * Slovene: branik
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: baluard
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: suojamuuri
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 藩屛
 * Khmer:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: насип
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: фалшбо́рд
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: hrazení
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: pavezo
 * Finnish: lisälaita
 * French:


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: rauawa
 * Norman: boulevard
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
 * 2)  To provide protection of defense for something.