gendarmerie

See also: Gendarmerie

English

Alternative forms

gendarmery

Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarmerie.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɒn.dɑː.mə.ɹi/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɑn.dɑɹ.mə.ɹi/

Noun

gendarmerie (plural gendarmeries)

A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.

Related terms

gendarme

Translations

military body charged with police duties

Belarusian: жандарме́рыя f (žandarmjéryja)
Bulgarian: жандармерия f (žandarmerija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 國家憲兵, 国家宪兵 (guójiā xiànbīng)
Czech: četnictvo (cs) n, žandarmerie (cs) f
Danish: gendarm
Dutch: rijkswacht (nl) f
Esperanto: ĝendarmo (eo)
Finnish: santarmi (fi)
French: gendarmerie (fr) f
German: Gendarmerie f
Greek: χωροφυλακή (el) f (chorofylakí)
Hungarian: csendőrség (hu)
Italian: carabinieri (it) pl, gendarmeria f
Japanese: 国家憲兵 (ja) (kokkakenpei)
Korean: 국가 헌병대 (gukga heonbyeongdae)

Norwegian: gendarmeri
Persian: ژاندارمری‎ (fa) (žândârmeri)
Polish: żandarmeria (pl) f
Portuguese: gendarmeria f, gendarmaria (pt) f
Romanian: jandarmerie (ro) f
Russian: жандарме́рия (ru) f (žandarmérija)
Rusyn: жандарме́рія 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
Turkish: jandarma (tr), jandarmalar pl
Turkmen: žandarmeriýa
Ukrainian: жандарме́рія f (žandarmérija)

French

Etymology

From gendarme

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi/
Audio (file)

Noun

gendarmerie f (plural gendarmeries)

The military branch of the French police service.

Related terms

gendarme

Further reading

“gendarmerie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

gendarmerie f pl

plural of gendarmeria

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