Cossack

English

Cossacks (military).

Alternative forms

• cossack

Etymology

1600, French cosaque, from Russian казак (kazák) and Ukrainian козак (kozák), from Turkish qazaq (“free man, wanderer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɔˈsæk/
• Hyphenation: Cos‧sack

Noun

Wikipedia Cossack (plural Cossacks)

1. A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian tsarist Empire (where they constituted a legendary military caste) and the Soviet Union, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
2. A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above)

Related terms

• Kazakh
• Kazakhstan

Translations

member of a population

• Arabic: قوزاق (ar) (quzaaq) m
• Armenian: կազակ (hy) (kazak)
• Belarusian: казак (be) (kazák) m
• Bulgarian: казак (bg) (kazak) m
• Catalan: cosac (ca) m, cosaca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哥薩克 (cmn), 哥萨克 (cmn) (Gēsàkè)

• Czech: kozák (cs) m
• Dutch: Kozak (nl) m
• Finnish: kasakka (fi)
• French: Cosaque (fr) m
• German: Kosak (de) m
• Hebrew: קוזאק (he) (qozaq) m

• Hungarian: kozák (hu)
• Icelandic: kósakki (is) m
• Italian: cosacco (it) m
• Japanese: コサック (ja) (Kosakku)
• Kazakh: казак (kk) (kazak)
• Korean: 카자크 (ko) (Kajakeu)
• Polish: Kozak (pl) m
• Portuguese: cossaco (pt) m
• Romanian: cazac (ro)
• Russian: казак (ru) (kazák) m, козак (ru) (kozák) m
• Spanish: cosaco (es) m
• Ukrainian: козак (uk) (kozák) m

member of a Cossack military unit

• Armenian: կազակ (hy) (kazak)
• Catalan: cosac (ca) m, cosaca (ca) f
• French: cosaque (fr)
• German: Kosak (de) m
• Hungarian: kozák (hu)

• Icelandic: kósakki (is) m
• Polish: kozak (pl) m
• Portuguese: cossaco (pt) m

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• Macedonian: козак (mk) (kozak) m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: kozak (sh) m

  Roman: козак (sh) m

• Slovak: kozák (sk) m
• Slovene: kozak (sl) m

Derived terms

• cossack green
• cossack hat

Anagrams

• cassock