insurgent

English

WOTD – 3 March 2011

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īnsurgentem, accusative singular of īnsurgēns, present active participle of īnsurgō (“I rise up against, revolt”), from in (“against”) + surgō (“I rise”), itself from sub (“up from below”) + regō (“I guide, direct, rule, govern, administer”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“to move in a straight line, to rule, guide, lead straight, put right”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsəːdʒ(ə)nt/
• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsəɹdʒənt/

• Audio (AU):

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Adjective

insurgent (not comparable)

1. Rebellious, opposing authority.
   • (Can we date this quote by Motley and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The insurgent provinces.

Translations

rebellious

• Armenian: ապստամբած (apstambac), ապստամբ (hy) (apstamb)
• Bulgarian: бунтовен (bg) (buntoven), бунтовнически (bg) (buntovničeski)
• Catalan: insurgent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: vzbouřený, vzbouřenecký, povstalecký
• Danish: oprørsk
• Dutch: opstandig (nl)
• Finnish: kapinallinen (fi)
• French: insurgé (fr)
• Georgian: მეამბოხეთა (meamboxeta)
• German: aufständisch
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 謀叛 (ja) (むほん, muhon), 反逆 (はんぎゃく, hangyaku)
• Khmer: ដែលបះបោរ (dael bah bao)
• Latin: rebellis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: opprørsk

  Nynorsk: opprørsk

• Portuguese: insurgente (pt)
• Russian: мяте́жный (ru) (mjatéžnyj), восста́вший (ru) (vosstávšij), разбушева́вшийся (ru) (razbuševávšijsja)
• Spanish: insurgente (es)

Noun

insurgent (plural insurgents)

1. One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.

Translations

rebel

• Arabic: مُتَمَرِّد m (mutamarrid), ثَائِر m (ṯāʔir), عَاصٍ m (ʕāṣin), عُصَاة pl (ʕuṣāh)
• Armenian: ապստամբ (hy) (apstamb)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: мете́жник (bg) m (metéžnik), въста́ник (bg) m (vǎstánik)
• Catalan: insurgent (ca) m or f
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反叛份子 (zh) (fǎnpàn fènzi), 起義者／起义者 (qǐyìzhě), 起义者 (qǐyìzhě), 叛亂者／叛乱者 (pànluànzhě), 叛乱者 (pànluànzhě), 造反者 (zàofǎnzhě)

• Czech: povstalec m, vzbouřenec m
• Danish: oprører c
• Dutch: opstandeling (nl) m, rebel (nl) m
• Finnish: kapinallinen (fi)
• French: insurgé (fr) m, insurgée (fr) f
• Georgian: მეამბოხე (meamboxe)
• German: Aufständischer (de) m, Insurgent (de) m
• Greek: αντάρτης (el) m (antártis), επαναστάτης (el) m (epanastátis)
• Hebrew: מתקומם m (mitkomaym)
• Hungarian: felkelő (hu)
• Indonesian: pendurhaka (id)
• Italian: insorto (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 謀叛人 (むほんにん, muhonnin), 反逆者 (はんぎゃくしゃ, hangyakusha)
• Khmer: អ្នកបះបោរ (neak bah bao), កុបករ (km) (ko’pa’kɑɑ)
• Korean: 반역자 (ko) (banyeokja)
• Latin: rebellis
• Maori: hauhau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: opprører m

  Nynorsk: opprørar m

• Persian: شورشی (fa) (šureši)
• Polish: rebeliant (pl) m, rebeliantka f
• Portuguese: insurgente (pt) m or f
• Russian: мяте́жник (ru) m (mjatéžnik), повста́нец (ru) m (povstánec), бунтовщи́к (ru) m (buntovščík), (seldom) инсурге́нт (ru) m (insurgént)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: побуњеник m

  Roman: pobunjenik (sh) m

• Spanish: insurgente (es) m or f
• Thai: กบฏ (th) (gà-bòt)
• Turkish: isyancı (tr)
• Ukrainian: повста́нець m (povstánecʹ)
• Vietnamese: người khởi nghĩa

Anagrams

• retunings, unresting

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin īnsurgentem.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

insurgent m (plural insurgents)

1. insurgent

Related terms

• insurgència

Adjective

insurgent m or f (masculine and feminine plural insurgents)

1. insurgent

Further reading

• “insurgent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “insurgent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “insurgent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “insurgent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Verb

insurgent

1. third-person plural present indicative of insurger
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of insurger

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) īnsurgent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of īnsurgō