merlon

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɜːlən/
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• General-American: /ˈmɝl(ə)n/
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Borrowed from French merlon, from Italian merlone (“merlon”), from merlo (“merlon”) + -one (suffix forming augmentatives). Merlo is derived from Late Latin merulus, merlus, possibly from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (as merlons resemble a row of birds perched on a wall), from Proto-Indo-European *h2ems- (“black; blackbird”). The English word is cognate with Italian mergolo (“battlement; pinnacle”), Portuguese merlão, Spanish merlón (“merlon”).

A variant of merlin.

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kanteel — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Armenian: ատամ (atam) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Basque: almena — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Belarusian: мерлон (mjerlón) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Belarusian: зубец (zubjec) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Bulgarian: зъ́бер (zǎ́ber) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Bulgarian: зъбе́ц (zǎbéc) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Burmese: သူရဲခို (surai:hkui) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Catalan: merlet — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Czech: stínka — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Czech: zub — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Czech: ozub — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Dutch: kanteel — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Dutch: tinne — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Estonian: sakk — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Finnish: sakara — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• French: merlon — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• West-Frisian: kantiel — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Galician: amea — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• German: Zinne — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Middle High German: zinne — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Old High German: zinna — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Ido: merlono — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Irish: meiril — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Italian: merlo — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Japanese: 凸部 (totsubu) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Latvian: dzeguļi — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Limburgish: kanteel — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Macedonian: за́бец (zábec) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Norwegian Bokmål: murkrone — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Norwegian Bokmål: murkrans — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Norwegian Bokmål: murtind — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Occitan: merlet — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Persian: شرفه — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Polish: blank — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Polish: blanka — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Polish: ząb — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Portuguese: merlão — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Romanian: merlon — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Russian: зубе́ц (zubéc) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Slovene: cina — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Spanish: merlón — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Spanish: almena — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Swedish: krenelering — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Thai: ใบสอ (bai-sɔ̌ɔ) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement
• Ukrainian: мерлон (merlon) — any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement