infantry

See also: Infanterie

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French infanterie, from older (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian, possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish infantería (“foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank for cavalry”), from infante (“foot soldier”), originally "a youth", either way from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īnfāns (“child”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfəntɹi/

Noun

infantry (plural infantries)

1. Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
2. (uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops
3. A regiment of infantry

Derived terms

Derived terms

• infanteer
• infantryman
• light infantry

• marine infantry
• mechanized infantry
• mounted infantry

Related terms

• infant

Translations

soldiers who fight on foot

• Afrikaans: infanterie
• Albanian: këmbësori (sq)
• Arabic: مُشَاة m pl (mušāh)
• Armenian: հետևազոր (hetewazor), հետևակ (hetewak)
• Basque: infanteria
• Belarusian: пяхота f (pjaxóta)
• Bulgarian: пехота f (pehota)
• Catalan: infanteria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步兵 (zh) (bùbīng)

• Czech: pěchota f
• Danish: infanteri n
• Dutch: infanterie (nl) f, voetvolk (nl) n
• Esperanto: infanterio
• Estonian: jalavägi
• Finnish: jalkaväki (fi)
• French: infanterie (fr) f
• Galician: infantaría f
• Georgian: ქვეითი (kveiti), ქვეითები (kveitebi), ქვეითი ჯარისკაცი (kveiti ǯarisḳaci)
• German: Infanterie (de) f
• Greek: πεζικό (el) n (pezikó)

  Ancient: πεζοί m pl (pezoí)

• Hebrew: חיל רגלים (he) f pl (khayl raglim)
• Hungarian: gyalogság (hu)
• Icelandic: fótgöngulið f
• Ido: infantrio (io)
• Indonesian: infanteri (id)
• Italian: fanteria (it) f
• Japanese: 歩兵 (ja) (ほへい hohei)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 보병 (ko) (bobyeong) (步兵 (ko))
• Latin: peditātus m
• Latvian: kājnieki m pl
• Lithuanian: pėstininkai m pl
• Macedonian: пешадија f (pešadija)
• Malay: infantri
• Manchu: ᠶᠠᡶᠠᡥᠠᠨ
  ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ (yafahan cooha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: infanteri n

  Nynorsk: infanteri n

• Occitan: infantariá f
• Persian: پیاده‌نظام (piyâde-nezâm)
• Polish: piechota (pl) f
• Portuguese: infantaria (pt) f
• Romanian: infanterie (ro) f
• Russian: пехо́та (ru) f (pexóta), пехоти́нцы (ru) m pl (pexotíncy)
• Scottish Gaelic: coisridh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пјеша̀дија f, пјеша́штво n, пеша̀дија f, пеша́штво n

  Roman: pješàdija (sh) f, pješáštvo (sh) n, pešàdija (sh) f, pešáštvo n

• Slovak: pechota f
• Slovene: pehota f
• Spanish: infantería (es) f
• Swedish: infanteri (sv) n
• Tagalog: hukbong-lakad
• Thai: ทหารราบ (tha-haan-raap)
• Turkish: piyade (tr)
• Ukrainian: піхо́та f (pixóta)
• Vietnamese: bộ binh (vi) (步兵)

the part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers

• Armenian: հետևազոր (hetewazor), հետևակ (hetewak)
• Basque: infanteria
• Bulgarian: пехота f (pehota)
• Catalan: infanteria (ca) f
• Czech: pěchota f
• Danish: infanteri n
• Dutch: infanterie (nl) f (with definite article: de i.)
• Estonian: jalavägi
• Finnish: jalkaväki (fi)
• French: infanterie (fr), fantassins (fr) pl
• Galician: infantaría f
• Georgian: ქვეითი ჯარი (kveiti ǯari), ქვეითები (kveitebi)
• German: Infanterie (de) f
• Greek: πεζικό (el) n (pezikó)

  Ancient: πεζοί m pl (pezoí)

• Hungarian: gyalogság (hu)
• Italian: fanteria (it)
• Latin: peditātus m
• Latvian: kājnieki m pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: pėstininkai m pl
• Malay: infantri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: infanteri n

  Nynorsk: infanteri n

• Polish: piechota (pl) f
• Portuguese: infantaria (pt) f
• Romanian: infanterie (ro) f
• Russian: пехо́та (ru) f (pexóta)
• Scottish Gaelic: coisridh f
• Serbo-Croatian: pješàdija (sh) f, pješáštvo (sh) n, pešàdija (sh) f, pešáštvo n
• Slovak: pechota f
• Slovene: pehota f
• Spanish: infantería (es) f
• Swedish: infanteri (sv) n
• Tagalog: hukbong-lakad
• Turkish: piyade (tr)
• Ukrainian: піхо́та f (pixóta)

regiment of infantry

• Dutch: infanterieregiment n
• Finnish: jalkaväkirykmentti
• French: régiment d’infanterie
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: infantaria (pt) f
• Romanian: regiment de infanterie n
• Spanish: regimiento de infantería m, tercio (es) m

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

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} חיל רגלים (he) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} fantid (vo)