Cossack

See also: cossack

English

Cossacks (military).

Alternative forms

• cossack
• kozak, Kozak

Etymology

Circa 1600, from Middle French cosaque, from Polish Kozak, from Ukrainian коза́к (kozák) (cf. Russian каза́к (kazák) or Russian коза́к (kozák) (older spelling)), from Kazakh қазақ (qazaq), from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰸‎ (*qazǧaq, “profiteer”), from 𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰣𐰢𐰴‎ (qazǧanmaq, “to acquire”), from 𐰴𐰔𐰢𐰴‎ (qazmaq, “to dig out”), from Proto-Turkic *kaŕ-. Doublet of Kazakh.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒsˌæk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑsˌæk/, /ˈkɔsˌæk/
• Hyphenation: Cos‧sack

Noun

Cossack (plural Cossacks)

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

Derived terms

• Cossackdom
• Cossack green
• Cossack hat
• Cossack post
• decossackization

Related terms

• gussuk
• Kazakh
• Kazakhstan

Translations

member of a population

• Albanian: kozak m
• Arabic: قُوزَاق‎ m (quzāq)
• Armenian: կազակ (hy) (kazak)
• Azerbaijani: kazak
• Belarusian: каза́к m (kazák), каза́чка f (kazáčka)
• Bulgarian: каза́к m (kazák), каза́чка f (kazáčka)
• Catalan: cosac (ca) m, cosaca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哥薩克／哥萨克 (zh) (gēsàkè)

• Crimean Tatar: qazaq
• Czech: kozák (cs) m, kozáčka f
• Danish: kosak c
• Dutch: Kozak m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: kasakas
• Finnish: kasakka (fi)
• French: Cosaque (fr) m or f
• Georgian: კაზაკი (ḳazaḳi)
• German: Kosak (de) m
• Greek: Κοζάκος (el) m (Kozákos)
• Hebrew: קוזאק‎ m (kozak)
• Hindi: कोज़ाक (kozāk), कज़ाक (kazāk), कजाक (hi) m (kajāk)
• Hungarian: kozák (hu)
• Icelandic: kósakki m
• Italian: cosacco (it) m
• Japanese: コサック (kosakku)
• Kalmyk: хазг (xazg)
• Kazakh: казак (kazak)
• Korean: 카자크 (kajakeu)
• Kyrgyz: казак (ky) (kazak)
• Latvian: kazaks m
• Lithuanian: kazokas m
• Macedonian: Козак m (Kozak)
• Mongolian: казак (mn) (kazak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kosakk m

  Nynorsk: kosakk m

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: коꙁакъ m (kozakŭ)

• Old East Slavic: козакъ m (kozakŭ)
• Ossetian: хъазах (qazax)
• Persian: قزاق‎ (fa) (qazzâq)
• Polish: Kozak (pl) m, Kozaczka f
• Portuguese: cossaco (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕਸਾਕ m (kasāk)
• Romanian: cazac (ro)
• Russian: каза́к (ru) m (kazák), коза́к (ru) m (kozák) (dated spelling), каза́чка (ru) f (kazáčka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Козак m

  Roman: Kozak m

• Slovak: kozák (sk) m, kozáčka f
• Slovene: kozak m
• Spanish: cosaco m
• Swedish: kosack (sv) c
• Tagalog: Kosako
• Tajik: казак (kazak)
• Tatar: казак (tt) (qazaq)
• Turkish: kazak (tr)
• Turkmen: kazak
• Ukrainian: коза́к (uk) m (kozák), коза́чка (uk) f (kozáčka)
• Uzbek: kazak (uz)
• Vietnamese: Cô-dắc
• Welsh: Cosac m
• Written Oirat: ᡍᠠᠴᠠᡎ (xazag)
• Yiddish: קאָזאַק‎ m (kozak)

member of a Cossack military unit

• Armenian: կազակ (hy) (kazak)
• Catalan: cosac (ca) m, cosaca (ca) f
• Czech: kozák (cs) m
• French: cosaque (fr) m or f
• German: Kosak (de) m
• Hungarian: kozák (hu)
• Icelandic: kósakki m
• Persian: قزاق‎ (fa) (qazzâq)
• Polish: kozak (pl) m
• Portuguese: cossaco (pt) m
• Slovak: kozák (sk) m
• Tagalog: Kosako
• Ukrainian: коза́к (uk) m (kozák)
• Yiddish: קאָזאַק‎ m (kozak), קאָזאַקן‎ m pl (kozakn)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} козак m (kozak)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} kozak (sh) m

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} козак m

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} kozák (sk) m
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} kozak m

Anagrams

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