gendarmerie

See also: Gendarmerie

English

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gendarmerie

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• gendarmery

Etymology

From French gendarmerie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɒn.dɑː.mə.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɑn.dɑɹ.mə.ɹi/

Noun

gendarmerie (plural gendarmeries)

1. A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.
   • 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 259:

     We must defend it till the Gendarmerie turn out. Keep after me.

Related terms

• gendarme

Translations

military body charged with police duties

Albanian: xhandarmëri (sq) f Arabic: دَرَك m (darak), جَنْدَرْمَة f (jandarma), حَرَس m (ḥaras) Armenian: ժանդարմերիա (hy) (žandarmeria) Azerbaijani: jandarmeriya Belarusian: жандарме́рыя f (žandarmjéryja), жандармэ́рыя f (žandarméryja) Bulgarian: жандарме́рия f (žandarmérija) Carpathian Rusyn: жандарме́рія f (žandarmérija) Chinese: Mandarin: 國家憲兵 / 国家宪兵 (guójiā xiànbīng), 憲兵 / 宪兵 (zh) (xiànbīng) Czech: četnictvo (cs) n, žandarmerie (cs) f Danish: gendarmeri n Dutch: rijkswacht (nl) f, gendarmerie (nl) f Esperanto: ĝendarmo (eo) Estonian: sandarmeeria Finnish: santarmi (fi) French: gendarmerie (fr) f Georgian: ჟანდარმერია (žandarmeria) German: Gendarmerie (de) f Greek: χωροφυλακή (el) f (chorofylakí) Ancient Greek: χωρόφυλαξ m (khōróphulax) Hebrew: זַ׳נְדַּרְמֶרְיָה f (zhandarmerya) Hungarian: csendőrség (hu) Indonesian: gendarmeri (id), marinyo (id) Italian: carabinieri (it) pl, gendarmeria f Japanese: 国家憲兵 (ja) (こっかけんぺい, kokka kenpei), 憲兵 (ja) (けんぺい, kenpei) Kazakh: жандармерия (jandarmeriä) Korean: 국가 헌병(國家憲兵) (gukga heonbyeong), 헌병(憲兵) (ko) (heonbyeong) Kyrgyz: жандармерия (ky) (jandarmeriya) Latvian: žandarmērija f Lithuanian: žandarmerija f Macedonian: жандармерија f (žandarmerija) Norwegian: Bokmål: gendarmeri Persian: ژاندارمری (fa) (žândârmeri) Polish: żandarmeria (pl) f Portuguese: gendarmeria f, gendarmaria (pt) f Romanian: jandarmerie (ro) f Russian: жандарме́рия (ru) f (žandarmérija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: жандармерија f, оружништво n Roman: žandarmerija (sh) f, oružništvo (sh) n Slovak: žandárstvo n, žandarméria f Slovene: žandarmerija f Spanish: gendarmería f Swedish: gendarmeri (sv) n Tajik: жандармерия (žandarmeriya) Turkish: jandarma (tr), jandarmalar pl Turkmen: žandarmeriýa Ukrainian: жандарме́рія (uk) f (žandarmérija) Uzbek: jandarmeriya (uz) Vietnamese: sen đầm (vi), hiến binh (vi)

French

English Wikipedia has an article on:

gendarmerie

Wikipedia

French Wikipedia has an article on:

gendarmerie

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

From gendarme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

gendarmerie f (plural gendarmeries)

1. the military branch of the French police service

Related terms

• gendarme

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

gendarmerie f pl

1. plural of gendarmeria