cavalry

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French cavalerie, in turn from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian cavalleria. Recorded in English from the 1540s. Doublet of chivalry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkævəlɹi/

• Audio (US):

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A cavalry of soldiers.

Noun

cavalry (countable and uncountable, plural cavalries)

1. (military, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
2. (military, countable) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.
3. (military, countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.

Derived terms

• cavalryman
• cavalry moustache
• cavalrywoman
• heavy cavalry
• light cavalry
• mechanized cavalry

 

Translations

military service that fights with riding horses

• Afrikaans: kavallerie
• Albanian: kalorësi (sq)
• Amharic: የፈረሰኞች ጭፍራ (yäfäräsäñoč č̣əfra)
• Arabic: فَارِس (ar) m (fāris), سلاح الفرسان m (silāḥ al-fursān)

  Egyptian Arabic: خيالة f (ḵayyāla)

• Armenian: հեծելազոր (hy) (hecelazor), այրուձի (hy) (ayruji), հեծել (hy) (hecel)

  Old Armenian: հեծելազօր (hecelazōr), այրուձի (ayruji)

• Azerbaijani: atlı qoşun
• Basque: zalduneria
• Belarusian: кавале́рыя f (kavaljéryja), конніца f (kónnica)
• Breton: marc'hegiezh m
• Bulgarian: кавалерия (bg) f (kavalerija), конница f (konnica)
• Catalan: cavalleria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 騎兵／骑兵 (zh) (qíbīng), 骑兵 (zh) (qíbīng)

• Czech: jezdectvo n, kavalérie (cs) f
• Danish: kavaleri n
• Dutch: cavalerie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kavalerio
• Estonian: ratsavägi
• Finnish: ratsuväki (fi)
• French: cavalerie (fr) f
• Galician: cabalaría (gl) f
• Georgian: ცხენოსანი ჯარი (cxenosani ǯari), კავალერია (ḳavaleria)
• German: Reiterei (de) f, Kavallerie (de) f
• Greek: ιππικό (el) n (ippikó)

  Ancient: ἱππεῖς m pl (hippeîs), ἱππικόν n (hippikón)

• Hebrew: חיל-פרשים m (kheil-parashym)
• Hindi: घुड़सवार सेना f (ghuṛasvār senā), घुड़सवार फ़ौज f (ghuṛasvār fauj)
• Hungarian: lovasság (hu)
• Icelandic: riddaralið f
• Ido: kavalrio (io)
• Indonesian: kavaleri (id)
• Irish: marcra m, marcshlua m
• Italian: cavalleria (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 騎兵 (ja) (kihei), 騎兵隊 (ja) (kiheitai)
• Kalmyk: мөрн церг (mörn tserg)
• Korean: 기병대 (ko) (gibyeongdae)
• Latin: equitatus m
• Latvian: kavalērija f
• Lithuanian: kavalerija f
• Low German:

  Eastphalian: Pervolk

• Macedonian: коњаница f (konjanica)
• Malay: husar
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠨ
  ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ (morin cooha), ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠨ
   ᡳ
  ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ (morin -i cooha), ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠩᡤᠠ
  ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ (moringga cooha)
• Maori: taua eke hōiho
• Mongolian: морин цэрэг (morin cereg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kavaleri n

  Nynorsk: kavaleri n

• Occitan: cavalariá f
• Persian: سواره‌نظام (savâre-nezâm)
• Polish: kawaleria (pl) f, konnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: cavalaria (pt) f
• Romanian: cavalerie (ro) f
• Russian: кавале́рия (ru) f (kavalérija), ко́нница (ru) f (kónnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̏њӣца f, ко̏њаӣштво n

  Roman: kȍnjīca (sh) f, kȍnjanīštvo (sh) n

• Slovak: jazdectvo n
• Slovene: konjenica (sl) f
• Spanish: caballería (es) f
• Swedish: kavalleri (sv) n
• Tagalog: kabayuhan
• Thai: ทหารม้า (tha-haan-maa)
• Turkish: süvari (tr)
• Ukrainian: кінно́та (uk) f (kinnóta), кавале́рія (uk) f (kavalérija)
• Vietnamese: kỵ binh (vi)
• Welsh: marchoglu m, marchfilwr m, cafalri m

an individual unit of cavalry

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 騎兵／骑兵 (zh) (qíbīng), 骑兵 (zh) (qíbīng)

• Finnish: ratsuväki (fi)
• Galician: cabalaría (gl) f
• Georgian: ცხენოსანი (cxenosani), მხედარი (mxedari), კავალერისტი (ḳavalerisṭi)
• German: Kavallerie (de) f
• Greek: ιππικό (el) n (ippikó)

  Ancient: ἱππικόν n (hippikón)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hindi: घुड़सवार m (ghuṛasvār)
• Hungarian: lovas (hu)
• Russian: кавалери́ст (ru) m (kavaleríst)
• Serbo-Croatian: kȍnjanīk (sh)
• Turkish: süvari (tr)

mechanized cavalry — see mechanized cavalry

References

• Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. →ISBN, →ISBN

Anagrams

• Calvary, calvary