gendarme

English

Etymology

Borrowed fromFrenchgendarme,from pluralgendarmes,a re-spelling ofgensd’armes(“people of arms "," armed people”).

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ʒɒn.ˈdɑːm/
• (US)IPA^(key):/ʒɑn.ˈdɑɹm/
• Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)m

Noun

gendarme(pluralgendarmesorgensdarmes)

1. A member of thegendarmerie,a military body charged with police duties.
2. Apoliceman.
   • 2003,Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi,Debating Cosmopolitics,Verso,page170:

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

3. Arockpinnacleon amountainridge.
   • 1979,Chris Jones,Climbing in North America,→ISBN,page118:

     The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take thisgendarmedirectly.

   • 1998,Climbing - Issues 178-180,page64:

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

   • 2013,Joe Kelsey,Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains,→ISBN,page259:

     Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of thegendarmes(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):seeThesaurus:police officer

Translations

member of the gendarmerie

• Albanian:xhandar(sq)m
• Arabic:دَرَكِيّm(darakiyy),جَنْدَرْمm(jandarm)
• Armenian:ժանդարմ(hy)(žandarm)
• Azerbaijani:jandarm
• Belarusian:жанда́рмm(žandárm)
• Bulgarian:жанда́рм(bg)m(žandárm)
• Catalan:gendarmemorf
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Hiến binh／Hiến binh(zh)(xiànbīng)

• Czech:žandarm(cs)m,žandárm,četník(cs)m
• Dutch:gendarme(nl)m
• Esperanto:ĝendarmo(eo)
• Estonian:sandarm(et)
• Finnish:santarmi(fi)
• French:gendarme(fr)m
• Galician:xendarmem
• Georgian:ჟანდარმი(žandarmi)
• German:Gendarm(de)m
• Greek:χωροφύλακας(el)m(chorofýlakas)
• Hebrew:זַ׳נְדַּרְםm(zhandárm)
• Hungarian:zsandár(hu),csendőr(hu)
• Italian:gendarme(it)m
• Japanese:Hiến binh(ja)(けんぺい, kenpei)
• Kazakh:жандарм(jandarm)
• Korean:헌병( hiến binh )(ko)(heonbyeong)
• Kyrgyz:жандарм(ky)(jandarm)
• Latvian:žandarmsm
• Lithuanian:žandarasm
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:gendarmm

• Persian:ژاندارم(fa)(žândârm)
• Polish:żandarm(pl)m
• Portuguese:gendarme(pt)m
• Romanian:jandarm(ro)m
• Russian:жанда́рм(ru)m(žandárm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:жандарm,жандармm

  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:זשאַנדאַרםm(zhandarm)

policeman—seepoliceman

rock pinnacle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:please add this translation if you can

• Finnish:kalliopaasi
• Galician:corunchom,curutom
• Portuguese:please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• red mange

French

Etymology

Singular extracted from pluralgendarmes,which arose as a re-spelling ofgensd’armes(“people of arms "," armed people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ʒɑ̃.daʁm/

• Audio;“un gendarme”:

  (file)

Noun

gendarmem(pluralgendarmes)

1. a member of thegendarmerie,a military body charged withpoliceduties
2. firebug(the insect)
3. landjäger(a type of sausage)

Derived terms

• gendarme allongé

Descendants

• →English:gendarme
• →Franco-Provençal:g·endârme
• →Italian:gendarme
• →Ottoman Turkish:ژاندارمه(jandarma),ժանտարմա(jandarma)—Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish:jandarma
  • →Armenian:ժանտարմա(žantarma)
  • →Laz:ჯანდამა(candama),ჟანდამა(jandama)—Arkabi,ჟანდარმა(jandarma)—Akçakoca,ჯანდარმა(candarma)
• →Romanian:jandarm
• →Russian:жандарм(žandarm)
  • →Armenian:ժանդարմ(žandarm)
  • →Georgian:ჟანდარმი(žandarmi)
  • →Uyghur:ژاندارما(zhandarma)
• →Persian:ژاندرم(žândarm)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• démanger

Italian

Etymology

BorrowedfromFrenchgendarme.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gendarmem(pluralgendarmi)

1. policeman(armed)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil)IPA^(key):/ʒẽˈdaʁ.mi/[ʒẽˈdaɦ.mi]

• (Brazil)IPA^(key):/ʒẽˈdaʁ.mi/[ʒẽˈdaɦ.mi]
  • (São Paulo)IPA^(key):/ʒẽˈdaɾ.mi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro)IPA^(key):/ʒẽˈdaʁ.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil)IPA^(key):/ʒẽˈdaɻ.me/

• (Portugal)IPA^(key):/ʒẽˈdaɾ.mɨ/

• Hyphenation:gen‧dar‧me

Noun

gendarmem(pluralgendarmes)

1. gendarme(member of the gendarmerie)

Spanish

Etymology

BorrowedfromFrenchgendarme.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gendarmemorfby sense(pluralgendarmes)

1. (law enforcement)policeperson(armed)

Related terms

• gendarmeríaf

Further reading

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