Cossack

See also: cossack

English

Cossacks (military).

Alternative forms

• cossack
• kozak, Kozak

Etymology

1600, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cosaque, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Polish Kozak, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian коза́к (kozák) (cf. (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian каза́к (kazák) or коза́к (kozák) (older spelling)), from a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  word quzzāq meaning “free man, wanderer”. Cognate with Kazakh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒsˌæk/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑsˌæk/
• 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 the 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

• cossack green
• cossack hat

Related terms

• Kazakh
• Kazakhstan

Translations

member of a population

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

  Mandarin: 哥薩克／哥萨克 (zh) (gēsàkè), 哥萨克 (zh) (gēsàkè)

• Crimean Tatar: qazaq
• Czech: kozák (cs) m
• Danish: kosak c
• Dutch: Kozak m
• Estonian: kasakas
• Finnish: kasakka (fi)
• French: Cosaque (fr) m
• Georgian: კაზაკი (ḳazaḳi)
• German: Kosak (de) m
• Greek: Κοζάκος 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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
• Portuguese: cossaco (pt) m
• 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
• 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)
• Uzbek: kazak (uz)
• Written Oirat: ᡍᠠᠴᠠᡎ (xazag)
• Yiddish: קאָזאַק m (kozak)

member of a Cossack military unit

• Armenian: կազակ (hy) (kazak)
• Catalan: cosac m, cosaca f
• Czech: kozák (cs) m
• French: cosaque (fr)
• German: Kosak (de) m
• Hungarian: kozák (hu)
• Icelandic: kósakki m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: قزاق (fa) (Qazzâq)
• Polish: kozak (pl) m
• Portuguese: cossaco (pt) m
• Slovak: kozák (sk) m
• Tagalog: Kosako
• 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

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} kozák (sk) m
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} kozak m

Anagrams

• cassock