watchtower

See also: Watchtower and watch-tower

English

From watch +‎ tower.

watchtower (plural watchtowers)

An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.

observation tower

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: պահակադիտանոց (pahakaditanocʿ)
Catalan: talaia (ca) f, torre de guaita f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 崗樓 (zh), 岗楼 (zh) (gǎnglóu), 望樓 (zh), 望楼 (zh) (wànglóu)
Esperanto: gardoturo
Finnish: vartiotorni
French: tour de guet (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Wachturm (de)
Greek: σκοπιά (el) f (skopiá), παρατηρητήριο (el) n (paratiritírio)
Ancient Greek: σκοπή f (skopḗ)
Hungarian: őrtorony (hu)
Igbo: ugẹle
Irish: túr faire m
Italian: torre di guardia f
Japanese: 望楼 (ぼうろう, bōrō)
Kazakh: күзет мұнарасы (küzet munarası)

Latin: specula (la) f
Maori: pūhara, pūwhara
Mongolian: харуул (mn) (haruul)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vakttårn n
Polish: strażnica (pl) f
Portuguese: torre de observação f
Russian: сторожева́я ба́шня (ru) (storoževája bášnja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: стра̀жа̄рница f, стра̀жара f

Roman: stràžārnica (sh) f, stràžara (sh) f
Spanish: atalaya (es) f, vigía (es)
Swedish: vakttorn n
Tagalog: atalaya, banayaban
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: gözlem kulesi
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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