gendarmerie

See also: Gendarmerie

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

gendarmerie

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)

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

French Wikipedia has an article on:

gendarmerie

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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

gendarmerie f pl

plural of gendarmeria

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