gendarme

gendarme

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme, from plural gendarmes, a re-spelling of gens d'armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʒɒn.ˈdɑːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʒɑn.ˈdɑɹm/

Noun

gendarme (plural gendarmes or gensdarmes)

1. A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
2. A policeman.
   • 2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170 :

     The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.

3. A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
   • 1979, Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, →ISBN, page 118:

     The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.

   • 1998, Climbing - Issues 178-180, page 64:

     The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.

   • 2013, Joe Kelsey, Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, →ISBN, page 259:

     Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes (the first being the owl-eared one referred to in the next route description) and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.

Synonyms

• (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

Translations

member of the gendarmerie

Albanian: xhandar (sq) m Arabic: دَرَكِيّ‎ m (darakiyy), جَنْدَرْم‎ m (jandarm) Armenian: ժանդարմ (hy) (žandarm) Azerbaijani: jandarm Belarusian: жанда́рм m (žandárm) Bulgarian: жанда́рм (bg) m (žandárm) Catalan: gendarme m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 憲兵／宪兵 (zh) (xiànbīng) Czech: žandarm (cs) m, žandár m, četník (cs) m Dutch: gendarme (nl) m Esperanto: ĝendarmo (eo) Estonian: sandarm (et) Finnish: santarmi (fi) French: gendarme (fr) m Galician: xendarme m Georgian: ჟანდარმი (žandarmi) German: Gendarm (de) m Greek: χωροφύλακας (el) m (chorofýlakas) Hebrew: זַ׳נְדַּרְם‎ m (zhandárm) Hungarian: zsandár (hu), csendőr (hu) Italian: gendarme (it) m Japanese: 憲兵 (ja) (けんぺい, kenpei) Kazakh: жандарм (jandarm) Korean: 헌병(憲兵) (ko) (heonbyeong) Kyrgyz: жандарм (ky) (jandarm) Latvian: žandarms m Lithuanian: žandaras m Norwegian: Bokmål: gendarm m Persian: ژاندارم‎ (fa) (žândârm) Polish: żandarm (pl) m Portuguese: gendarme (pt) m Romanian: jandarm (ro) m Russian: жанда́рм (ru) m (žandárm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: жандар m, жандарм m Roman: žandar (sh) m, žandarm (sh) m Slovak: žandár (sk) m Spanish: gendarme (es) m Swedish: gendarm (sv) c Tagalog: hendarme Tajik: жандарм (žandarm) Turkish: jandarma (tr) Turkmen: žandarm Ukrainian: жанда́рм (uk) m (žandárm) Uzbek: jandarm (uz) Vietnamese: sen đầm (vi), hiến binh (vi) Yiddish: זשאַנדאַרם‎ m (zhandarm)

policeman — see policeman

rock pinnacle

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kalliopaasi Galician: coruncho m, curuto m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• red mange

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French

Etymology

Singular extracted from plural gendarmes, which arose as a re-spelling of gens d'armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃.daʁm/

• audio (un gendarme)

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Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties
2. firebug (the insect)
3. landjäger (a type of sausage)

Derived terms

• gendarme allongé

Descendants

• → English: gendarme
• → Italian: gendarme
• → Ottoman Turkish: ژاندارمه‎ (jandarma)
  • Turkish: jandarma
  • → Armenian: ժանտարմա (žantarma)
• → Romanian: jandarm
• → Russian: жандарм (žandarm)
• → Persian: ژاندرم‎ (žândarm)

Further reading

• “gendarme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Gendarme (charcuterie) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• démanger

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒenˈdar.me/
• Rhymes: -arme
• Hyphenation: gen‧dàr‧me

Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmi)

1. policeman (armed)

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Portuguese

Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. gendarme (member of the gendarmerie)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xenˈdaɾme/ [xẽn̪ˈd̪aɾ.me]
• Rhymes: -aɾme
• Syllabification: gen‧dar‧me

Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. (law enforcement) policeman (armed)

Related terms

• gendarmería

Further reading

• “gendarme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014