reveille

reveille

See also: réveille and réveillé

WOTD – 22 May 2010

English

Etymology

From French réveillez, imperative form of réveiller (“to wake”) .

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈva.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛ.və.li/

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Noun

reveille (plural reveilles)

1. (military) The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.

Translations

the sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers

Armenian: ցայգանվագ (hy) (cʿayganvag) Catalan: diana f Chinese: Mandarin: 起床號 (zh), 起床号 (zh) (qǐchuánghào), 晨號, 晨号 (chénhào) Danish: reveille (da) c Finnish: herätys (fi), aamusoitto French: diane (fr) f, réveil (fr) m German: Wecken (de) n, Weckruf (de) m Greek: εγερτήριο (el) n (egertírio)

Italian: diana, sveglia (it) Japanese: (horn) 起床らっぱ (きしょうらっぱ, kishō rappa), (drum) 起床太鼓 (きしょうたいこ, kishō taiko), 朝礼 (ちょうれい, chōrei) Norwegian: revelje m Portuguese: alvorada (pt) f Russian: у́тренняя заря́ f (útrennjaja zarjá) (scout or pioneer camp), побу́дка (ru) f (pobúdka), подъём (ru) m (podʺjóm) Spanish: diana (es) Swedish: revelj (sv) c, väckning (sv) Tagalog: diyana