hetman

English

Etymology

From Polish hetman, probably from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman (“commander”), from houbet, heupt (“head”), related to Latin caput (“head”), + Middle High German man (“man”). Compare modern German Hauptmann (“captain”), Haupt, Mann. The Polish e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-.

Noun

hetman (plural hetmans)

1. (history) A Cossack headman or general.
2. Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).

Translations

a historical military commander in various Eastern European countries

• Belarusian: ге́тман m (hjétman)
• Bulgarian: хе́тман m (hétman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓋特曼／盖特曼, 盖特曼 (gàitèmàn)

• Czech: hejtman (cs) m
• Danish: hetman c
• Finnish: hetmani (fi)
• Georgian: ჰეტმანი (heṭmani)
• Greek: χετμάνος m (chetmános)
• Hungarian: hetman (hu)
• Italian: etmano m
• Japanese: ヘトマン (hetoman)
• Korean: 헤트만 (heteuman)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: etmonas m
• Polish: hetman (pl) m
• Portuguese: hétmã m, hétmane m
• Romanian: hatman (ro) m
• Russian: ге́тман (ru) m (gétman)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хетман m

  Roman: hetman (sh) m

• Spanish: hetman m
• Swedish: hetman (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ге́тьман m (hétʹman)
• Uzbek: getman (uz)

See also

• ataman
• hegumen

References

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “гетьман”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

Anagrams

• Hemant, Manthe, anthem, mentha, nameth, the man

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French

Noun

hetman m (plural hetmans)

1. hetman

Further reading

• “hetman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Polish

Noun

1. (chess) queen

   Synonyms: dama, królowa, królówka

Declension

Declension of hetman

	singular	plural
nominative	hetman	hetmany
genitive	hetmana	hetmanów
dative	hetmanowi	hetmanom
accusative	hetmana	hetmany
instrumental	hetmanem	hetmanami
locative	hetmanie	hetmanach
vocative	hetmanie	hetmany

Noun

hetman m pers

1. (historical) a Cossack military commander
2. (historical) title used by the senior military commanders in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (15th to 18th century)

Declension

Declension of hetman

	singular	plural
nominative	hetman	hetmani/hetmany (deprecative)
genitive	hetmana	hetmanów
dative	hetmanowi	hetmanom
accusative	hetmana	hetmanów
instrumental	hetmanem	hetmanami
locative	hetmanie	hetmanach
vocative	hetmanie	hetmani

See also

Chess pieces in Polish · bierki szachowe (layout · text)
król	hetman, królowa, królówka, dama	wieża	goniec, laufer, giermek	skoczek, koń, konik	pion, pionek

Further reading

• hetman in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hetman in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

Possibly English head + man.

Noun

hetman

1. chief; leader