chariot

English

Hittite chariot.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛɹiət/
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæɹɪət/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: char‧i‧ot

Noun

chariot (plural chariots)

1. A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.
2. A light four-wheeled carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes.
3. (xiangqi) rook

Hypernyms

• (obsolete): car, cart

Hyponyms

• (Roman, 2-horse): biga
• (Roman, 3-horse): triga
• (Roman, 4-horse): quadriga

Related terms

• charret
• charrette
• (driver): charioteer
• car

Translations

vehicle used in warfare

• Arabic: عَرَبَة f (ʕaraba)
• Armenian: մարտակառք (hy) (martakaṙkʻ)
• Avestan: 𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬀 (raθa)
• Azerbaijani: araba (az)
• Basque: guda-gurdi
• Belarusian: калясні́ца f (kaljasníca)
• Bengali: রথ (roth)
• Bulgarian: колесни́ца (bg) f (kolesníca)
• Catalan: carro (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙輪戰車／双轮战车, 双轮战车 (shuāng lún zhànchē), 戰車／战车 (zh) (zhànchē), 战车 (zh) (zhànchē), 馬戰車／马战车, 马战车 (mǎzhànchē), 馬車／马车 (zh) (mǎchē), 马车 (zh) (mǎchē)

• Czech: válečný vůz m, vůz (cs) m
• Danish: stridsvogn c
• Dutch: strijdwagen (nl) m
• Egyptian: (mrkbt), (wrryt)
• Finnish: sotavaunut pl
• French: char (fr) m (de guerre), charriot (fr) m
• Georgian: ეტლი (eṭli)
• German: Streitwagen (de) m
• Greek: άρμα (el) f (árma)

  Ancient: ἅρμα f (hárma), δίφρος m (díphros)

• Hebrew: מֶרְכָּבָה (he) f (merkavá)
• Hindi: रथ (hi) m (rath)
• Hittite: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: charo (io)
• Indonesian: cikar (id)
• Irish: carbad m
• Italian: biga (it) f
• Japanese: 戦車 (ja) (せんしゃ, sensha), チャリオット (ja) (chariotto), 馬車 (ja) (ばしゃ, basha)
• Kazakh: арба (kk) (arba)
• Khmer: រថ (km) (rŭət), រទេះ (km) (rɔteh)
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• Korean: 전차 (ko) (jeoncha), 마차 (ko) (macha)
• Kyrgyz: араба (ky) (araba)
• Lao: ສັນທະນະ (san tha na), ລົດ (lo) (lot)
• Latin: currūs (la) m, curriculum n, (Celtic) essedum n, (poetic) rota f, (with four horses) quadrīgae (la) f
• Malay: cikar
• Maori: hāriata
• Middle Persian: 𐫡𐫍𐫏‎ (rah)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stridsvogn m or f

• Old Church Slavonic: возъ m (vozŭ)
• Persian: گردونه (fa) (gardune), ارابه (fa) (arâbe), غرده (fa) (γarde)
• Polish: rydwan (pl) m
• Portuguese: biga (pt)
• Romanian: bigă (ro) f, car de luptă n
• Russian: колесни́ца (ru) f (kolesníca)
• Sanskrit: रथ (sa) m (ratha)
• Scottish Gaelic: carbad m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: двоколица f, кочије n

  Roman: dvokolica (sh) f, kočije (sh) n

• Slovak: voz m
• Slovene: voz (sl) m
• Spanish: carro (es) m, carreta (es) f
• Swedish: stridsvagn (sv), häststridsvagn
• Tagalog: karo
• Tajik: ароба (tg) (aroba)
• Thai: รถ (th) (rót)
• Turkish: savaş arabası
• Ukrainian: колісни́ця (uk) f (kolisnýcja)
• Urdu: رتھ m (rath)
• Uzbek: jang aravasi, arava (uz)
• Vietnamese: chiếc xe, xe (vi)
• Welsh: cerbyd (cy) m

carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes

• Burmese: ရထား (my) (ra.hta:)
• Catalan: carro (ca) m, carruatge (ca) m, carrossa f
• Finnish: juhlavaunut pl
• German: Triumphwagen m
• Hindi: रथ (hi) m (rath)
• Ido: charo (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: cocchio (it) m, carrozza (it) f
• Latin: (used by women) pīlentum n
• Polish: kareta (pl) f, karoca f
• Portuguese: charrete (pt) f, carruagem (pt) f
• Russian: каре́та (ru) f (karéta)
• Welsh: cerbyd (cy) m

Verb

chariot (third-person singular simple present chariots, present participle charioting, simple past and past participle charioted)

1. (transitive, rare, poetic) To convey by, or as if by, chariot.
2. (intransitive) To ride in a chariot.

Anagrams

• Torahic, Torchia, haricot

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French

Alternative forms

• charriot (1990 reform spelling)

Etymology

From Old French chariot, from char or from charrier +‎ -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ʁjo/

• audio

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Noun

chariot m (plural chariots)

1. trolley
2. carriage (of a computer printer)

   chariot bloqué

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• haricot
• torchai