infantry

See also: Infanterie

English

Etymology

From Middle French infanterie, from older Italian, possibly from Spanish infantería (“foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank for cavalry”), from infante (“foot soldier”), originally "a youth", either way from Latin īnfāns (“child”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfəntɹi/

Noun

infantry (plural infantries)

Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
(uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops
A regiment of infantry

Derived terms

infanteer
infantryman
light infantry

marine infantry
mechanized infantry
mounted infantry

Translations

soldiers who fight on foot

Afrikaans: infanterie
Albanian: këmbësori (sq)
Arabic: مُشَاة‎ m pl (mušāh)
Armenian: հետևազոր (hetewazor), հետևակ (hetewak)
Basque: infanteria
Belarusian: пяхота f (pjaxóta)
Bulgarian: пехота f (pehota)
Catalan: infanteria (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 步兵 (zh) (bùbīng)
Czech: pěchota f
Danish: infanteri n
Dutch: infanterie (nl) f, voetvolk (nl) n
Esperanto: infanterio
Estonian: jalavägi
Finnish: jalkaväki (fi)
French: infanterie (fr) f
Galician: infantaría f
Georgian: ქვეითი (kveiti), ქვეითები (kveitebi), ქვეითი ჯარისკაცი (kveiti ǯarisḳaci)
German: Infanterie (de) f
Greek: πεζικό (el) n (pezikó)
Ancient: πεζοί m pl (pezoí)
Hebrew: חיל רגלים‎ (he) f pl (khayl raglim)
Hungarian: gyalogság (hu)
Icelandic: fótgöngulið f
Ido: infantrio (io)
Indonesian: infanteri (id)
Italian: fanteria (it) f
Japanese: 歩兵 (ja) (ほへい hohei)

Korean: 보병 (ko) (bobyeong) (步兵 (ko))
Latin: peditatus m
Latvian: kājnieki m pl
Lithuanian: pėstininkai m pl
Macedonian: пешадија f (pešadija)
Malay: infantri
Norwegian:
Bokmål: infanteri n
Nynorsk: infanteri n
Occitan: infantariá f
Persian: پیاده‌نظام‎ (piyâde-nezâm)
Polish: piechota (pl) f
Portuguese: infantaria (pt) f
Romanian: infanterie (ro) f
Russian: пехо́та (ru) f (pexóta), пехоти́нцы (ru) m pl (pexotíncy)
Scottish Gaelic: coisridh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пјеша̀дија f, пјеша́штво n, пеша̀дија f, пеша́штво n
Roman: pješàdija (sh) f, pješáštvo (sh) n, pešàdija (sh) f, pešáštvo n
Slovak: pechota f
Slovene: pehota f
Spanish: infantería (es) f
Swedish: infanteri (sv) n
Tagalog: hukbong-lakad
Thai: ทหารราบ (tha-haan-raap)
Turkish: piyade (tr)
Ukrainian: піхо́та f (pixóta)
Vietnamese: bộ binh (vi) (步兵)

the part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers

Armenian: հետևազոր (hetewazor), հետևակ (hetewak)
Basque: infanteria
Bulgarian: пехота f (pehota)
Catalan: infanteria (ca) f
Czech: pěchota f
Danish: infanteri n
Dutch: infanterie (nl) f (with definite article: de i.)
Estonian: jalavägi
Finnish: jalkaväki (fi)
French: infanterie (fr), fantassins (fr) pl
Galician: infantaría f
Georgian: ქვეითი ჯარი (kveiti ǯari), ქვეითები (kveitebi)
German: Infanterie (de) f
Greek: πεζικό (el) n (pezikó)
Ancient: πεζοί m pl (pezoí)
Hungarian: gyalogság (hu)
Italian: fanteria (it)
Latin: peditatus m
Latvian: kājnieki m pl

Lithuanian: pėstininkai m pl
Malay: infantri
Norwegian:
Bokmål: infanteri n
Nynorsk: infanteri n
Polish: piechota (pl) f
Portuguese: infantaria (pt) f
Romanian: infanterie (ro) f
Russian: пехо́та (ru) f (pexóta)
Scottish Gaelic: coisridh f
Serbo-Croatian: pješàdija (sh) f, pješáštvo (sh) n, pešàdija (sh) f, pešáštvo n
Slovak: pechota f
Slovene: pehota f
Spanish: infantería (es) f
Swedish: infanteri (sv) n
Tagalog: hukbong-lakad
Turkish: piyade (tr)
Ukrainian: піхо́та f (pixóta)

regiment of infantry

Dutch: infanterieregiment n
Finnish: jalkaväkirykmentti
French: régiment d'infanterie

Portuguese: infantaria (pt) f
Romanian: regiment de infanterie n
Spanish: regimiento de infantería m, tercio (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} חיל רגלים‎ (he) m

Volapük: ^{(please verify)} fantid (vo)