gendarme

English

Noun

gendarme (plural gendarmes or gensdarmes)

1. A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
2. Policeman.
   • 2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170 [1]:

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

Translations

member of the gendarmerie

• Esperanto: ĝendarmo (eo)
• Finnish: santarmi (fi)
• German: Gendarm (de) m
• Greek: χωροφύλακας (el) (chorofýlakas)
• Hungarian: zsandár (hu), csendőr (hu)

• Italian: gendarme (it) m
• Norwegian: Konstabel (no)
• Romanian: jandarm (ro) m, jandarmi (ro) m pl
• Russian: жандарм (ru) (žandárm) m
• Turkish: jandarma (tr)

any policeman

• German: Gendarm (de) m
• Hungarian: zsandár (hu)

• Italian: agente di polizia (it), poliziotto (it), carabiniere (it), gendarme (it)

Anagrams

• red mange

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French

Etymology

Singular extracted from plural gendarmes, which arose as a re-spelling of gens d' armes = "people of arms", "armed people".

Pronunciation

• audio (un gendarme)

  (file)

• IPA: /ʒɑ̃.daʁm/

Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
2. firebug (the insect)

Derived terms

• gendarme allongé

Anagrams

• démanger

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Italian

Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmi)

1. policeman (armed)