bulwark

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʊl.wək/
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• US: bo͝ol'wərk
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• US: /ˈbʊl.wɚk/
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• Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ˈbʉl.wəɹk/
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From Middle English bulwerk, from Middle Dutch bolwerk, bolwerc and Middle Low German bolwerk, equivalent to bole (“tree trunk”) + work. Cognate with German Bollwerk, Danish bolværk, Swedish bålverk, Dutch bolwerk. Doublet of boulevard (from French boulevard, from Dutch); cognate with Portuguese and Spanish baluarte and Italian baluardo.

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حِصْن (ḥiṣn) — defensive wall or rampart
• Armenian: հողապատնեշ (hoġapatneš) — defensive wall or rampart
• Armenian: բաստիոն (bastion) — defensive wall or rampart
• Bulgarian: реду́т (redút) — defensive wall or rampart
• Bulgarian: бастио́н (bastión) — defensive wall or rampart
• Catalan: baluard — defensive wall or rampart
• Czech: val — defensive wall or rampart
• Danish: bolværk — defensive wall or rampart
• Dutch: bolwerk — defensive wall or rampart
• Esperanto: remparo — defensive wall or rampart
• Estonian: kaitsevall — defensive wall or rampart
• Finnish: suojamuuri — defensive wall or rampart
• Finnish: suojavalli — defensive wall or rampart
• French: rempart — defensive wall or rampart
• German: Bollwerk — defensive wall or rampart
• Gothic: 𐍄𐌿𐌻𐌲𐌹𐌸𐌰 (tulgiþa) — defensive wall or rampart
• Hungarian: bástya — defensive wall or rampart
• Hungarian: védfal — defensive wall or rampart
• Hungarian: védőfal — defensive wall or rampart
• Icelandic: bolvirki — defensive wall or rampart
• Icelandic: bolverk — defensive wall or rampart
• Ido: remparo — defensive wall or rampart
• Irish: bábhún — defensive wall or rampart
• Italian: baluardo — defensive wall or rampart
• Japanese: 堡塁 (hourui) — defensive wall or rampart
• Khmer: កំពែង (kɑmpɛɛng) — defensive wall or rampart
• Central Kurdish: سەنگەر (senger) — defensive wall or rampart
• Latin: agger — defensive wall or rampart
• Macedonian: бе́дем (bédem) — defensive wall or rampart
• Macedonian: на́сип (násip) — defensive wall or rampart
• Macedonian: бастио́н (bastión) — defensive wall or rampart
• Māori: papatū — defensive wall or rampart
• Māori: pākai — defensive wall or rampart
• Norwegian: bolverk — defensive wall or rampart
• Old Norse: bolvirki — defensive wall or rampart
• Persian: بارو (bâru) — defensive wall or rampart
• Polish: wał — defensive wall or rampart
• Polish: szaniec — defensive wall or rampart
• Portuguese: baluarte — defensive wall or rampart
• Russian: вал (val) — defensive wall or rampart
• Russian: бастио́н (bastión) — defensive wall or rampart
• Russian: реду́т (redút) — defensive wall or rampart
• Scottish Gaelic: bàbhan — defensive wall or rampart
• Scottish Gaelic: mùr — defensive wall or rampart
• Serbo-Croatian: grudobran — defensive wall or rampart
• Serbo-Croatian: branik — defensive wall or rampart
• Serbo-Croatian: bastion — defensive wall or rampart
• Serbo-Croatian: bedem — defensive wall or rampart
• Slovene: branik — defensive wall or rampart
• Spanish: baluarte — defensive wall or rampart
• Swedish: bålverk — defensive wall or rampart
• Tagalog: balwarte — defensive wall or rampart
• Ottoman Turkish: قلعه دیواری حصار (kalʼe duvarı) — defensive wall or rampart
• Ukrainian: вал (val) — defensive wall or rampart
• Ukrainian: бастіон (bastion) — defensive wall or rampart
• Yiddish: וואַל (val) — defensive wall or rampart
• Armenian: պատվար (patvar) — defense or safeguard
• Armenian: պաշտպանություն (paštpanutʻyun) — defense or safeguard
• Bulgarian: опо́ра (opóra) — defense or safeguard
• Bulgarian: защи́та (zaštíta) — defense or safeguard
• Catalan: baluard — defense or safeguard
• Czech: záštita — defense or safeguard
• Danish: bolværk — defense or safeguard
• Dutch: verschansing — defense or safeguard
• Dutch: schans — defense or safeguard
• Finnish: suojamuuri — defense or safeguard
• French: bastion — defense or safeguard
• French: rempart — defense or safeguard
• German: Bollwerk — defense or safeguard
• Hungarian: védelem — defense or safeguard
• Japanese: 藩屛 (hanpei) — defense or safeguard
• Khmer: ការការពារ (kaa kaa pie) — defense or safeguard
• Central Kurdish: سەنگەر (senger) — defense or safeguard
• Latin: arx — defense or safeguard
• Macedonian: за́штита (záštita) — defense or safeguard
• Macedonian: о́дбрана (ódbrana) — defense or safeguard
• Persian: سنگر (sangar) — defense or safeguard
• Portuguese: baluarte — defense or safeguard
• Russian: опло́т (oplót) — defense or safeguard
• Russian: защи́та (zaščíta) — defense or safeguard
• Russian: опо́ра (opóra) — defense or safeguard
• Spanish: baluarte — defense or safeguard
• Ukrainian: опора (opora) — defense or safeguard
• Ukrainian: оплот (oplot) — defense or safeguard
• Ukrainian: захист (zaxyst) — defense or safeguard
• Bulgarian: фалшбо́рд (falšbórd) — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Catalan: murada — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Catalan: orla — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Czech: hrazení — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Dutch: verschansing — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Esperanto: pavezo — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Finnish: lisälaita — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Finnish: varalaita — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Finnish: varpe — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• French: bastingage — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• French: pavois — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• German: Schanzkleid — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Italian: impavesata — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Māori: rauawa — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Norman: boulevard — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Portuguese: amurada — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Russian: фальшбо́рт (falʹšbórt) — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Serbo-Croatian: razma — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Spanish: amurada — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale
• Ukrainian: фальшборт (falʹšbort) — nautical: planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale