Cossack
See also: cossack
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
1600, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cosaque, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Polish Kozak[1], 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] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "trk" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. word quzzāq meaning “free man, wanderer”. Cognate with Kazakh.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: Cos‧sack
Noun
Cossack (plural Cossacks)
- 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.
- A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above)
- (obsolete) A Ukrainian.
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Translations
member of a population
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member of a Cossack military unit
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