chariot

chariot

English

Hittite chariot.

Etymology

From Middle English chariot, from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”). Displaced native Old English hrædwæġn (literally “fast wagon”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæɹɪət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæɹiət/, /ˈt͡ʃɛɹiət/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: char‧i‧ot

Noun

chariot (plural chariots)

1. A (two-wheeled) horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.

   Synonym: (dated) car

2. A light (four-wheeled) carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes.
3. (xiangqi) rook

Hyponyms

• (Roman, 2-horse): biga
• (Roman, 3-horse): triga
• (Roman, 4-horse): quadriga

Derived terms

• your chariot awaits

Related terms

• charret
• charrette
• (driver): charioteer

Translations

vehicle used in warfare

Arabic: عَرَبَة‎ f (ʿaraba) Armenian: մարտակառք (hy) (martakaṙkʿ) Avestan: 𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬀‎ (raθa) Azerbaijani: araba (az) Basque: guda-gurdi Belarusian: калясні́ца f (kaljasníca) Bengali: রথ (bn) (rôthô) Bulgarian: колесни́ца (bg) f (kolesníca) Burmese: ရထား (my) (ra.hta:) Catalan: carro (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 雙輪戰車／双轮战车 (shuāng lún zhànchē), 戰車／战车 (zh) (zhànchē), 馬戰車／马战车 (mǎzhànchē), 馬車／马车 (zh) (mǎchē) Coptic: ⲃⲣϭⲟⲟⲩⲧ f (brcoout), ϩⲁⲣⲙⲁ (harma) Czech: válečný vůz m, vůz (cs) m Danish: stridsvogn c Dutch: strijdwagen (nl) m Egyptian: (mrkbt), (wrryt) Esperanto: armea ĉaro Finnish: sotavaunut pl French: char (fr) m (de guerre), charriot (fr) m Galician: biga f Georgian: ეტლი (eṭli) German: Streitwagen (de) m Greek: άρμα (el) f (árma) Ancient: ἅρμα f (hárma), δίφρος m (díphros), (covered) λαμπήνη f (lampḗnē), ὄχος m (ókhos), ὄχεα n pl (ókhea) Hebrew: מֶרְכָּבָה‎ (he) f (merkavá) Hindi: रथ (hi) m (rath) Hittite: please add this translation if you can Ido: charo (io) Indonesian: cikar (id) Irish: carbad m Italian: biga (it) f Japanese: 戦車 (ja) (せんしゃ, sensha), チャリオット (ja) (chariotto), 馬車 (ja) (ばしゃ, basha) Kazakh: арба (kk) (arba) Khmer: រថ (km) (rŭət), រទេះ (km) (rɔteh) Korean: 전차 (ko) (jeoncha), 마차 (ko) (macha) Kyrgyz: араба (ky) (araba) Lao: ສັນທະນະ (san tha na), ລົດ (lo) (lot) Latin: currūs (la) m, curriculum n, (Celtic) essedum n, (poetic) rota f, (with four horses) quadrīgae (la) f Malay: cikar Malayalam: രഥം (ml) (rathaṃ), തേര് (ml) (tērŭ) Maori: hāriata Middle Persian: 𐫡𐫍𐫏‎‎ (rah) Mon: ရထာပၞာန် (mnw),ကွဳပၞာန် (mnw) Norwegian: Bokmål: stridsvogn (no) m or f Old Church Slavonic: возъ m (vozŭ) Old English: hrædwæġn m Old Norse: reið f Pali: please add this translation if you can Mon: (please verify) ယုဒ္ဓရထ m (yuddharatha) Persian: گردونه‎ (fa) (gardune), ارابه‎ (fa) (arâbe), غرده‎ (fa) (γarde) Polish: rydwan (pl) m Portuguese: biga (pt) Romanian: bigă (ro) f, car de luptă n Russian: колесни́ца (ru) f (kolesníca) Sanskrit: रथ (sa) m (ratha) Scottish Gaelic: carbad m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: двоколица f, кочије n Roman: dvokolica (sh) f, kočije (sh) n Slovak: voz m Slovene: voz (sl) m Spanish: quadriga f, biga (es) f , carro (es) m (de guerra) Swedish: stridsvagn (sv), häststridsvagn Tagalog: karo Tajik: ароба (tg) (aroba) Thai: รถ (th) (rót) Turkish: savaş arabası Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎋𐎁𐎚 (mrkbt) Ukrainian: колісни́ця (uk) f (kolisnýcja) Urdu: رتھ‎ m (rath) Uzbek: jang aravasi, arava (uz) Vietnamese: chiếc xe, xe (vi) Welsh: cerbyd (cy) m

carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes

Burmese: ရထား (my) (ra.hta:) Catalan: carro (ca) m, carruatge (ca) m, carrossa f Esperanto: ĉaro Finnish: juhlavaunut pl German: Triumphwagen (de) m Hindi: रथ (hi) m (rath) Ido: charo (io) Italian: cocchio (it) m, carrozza (it) f Latin: (used by women) pīlentum n Malayalam: രഥം (ml) (rathaṃ) Old Norse: reið f Polish: kareta (pl) f, karoca f Portuguese: charrete (pt) f, carruagem (pt) f Russian: каре́та (ru) f (karéta) Welsh: cerbyd (cy) m

Verb

chariot (third-person singular simple present chariots, present participle charioting, simple past and past participle charioted)

1. (transitive, rare, poetic) To convey by, or as if by, chariot.
2. (intransitive) To ride in a chariot.

Anagrams

• Torahic, Torchia, haricot

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French

Alternative forms

• charriot (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Old French chariot, from char or from charrier +‎ -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ʁjo/

• audio

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• Rhymes: -jo

Noun

chariot m (plural chariots)

1. A car/carriage or wagon
2. carriage (of a computer printer)

   chariot bloqué

3. (Quebec) shopping cart

   Synonym: caddie

Derived terms

• chariot élévateur

Further reading

• “chariot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• haricot
• torchai