gendarme

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme, from plural gendarmes, a re-spelling of gens d’armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʒɒnˈdɑːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʒɑnˈdɑɹm/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m

Noun

gendarme (plural gendarmes or gensdarmes)

1. A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
2. A policeman.
   • 2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170:

     The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.

3. A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
   • 1979, Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, →ISBN, page 118:

     The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.

   • 1998, Climbing - Issues 178-180, page 64:

     The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.

   • 2013, Joe Kelsey, Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, →ISBN, page 259:

     Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes (the first being the owl-eared one referred to in the next route description) and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.

Synonyms

• (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

Translations

member of the gendarmerie

• Albanian: xhandar (sq) m
• Arabic: دَرَكِيّ m (darakiyy), جَنْدَرْم m (jandarm)
• Armenian: ժանդարմ (hy) (žandarm)
• Azerbaijani: jandarm
• Belarusian: жанда́рм m (žandárm)
• Bulgarian: жанда́рм (bg) m (žandárm)
• Catalan: gendarme m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 憲兵 / 宪兵 (zh) (xiànbīng)

• Czech: žandarm (cs) m, žandár m, četník (cs) m
• Dutch: gendarme (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĝendarmo (eo)
• Estonian: sandarm (et)
• Finnish: santarmi (fi)
• French: gendarme (fr) m
• Galician: xendarme m
• Georgian: ჟანდარმი (žandarmi)
• German: Gendarm (de) m
• Greek: χωροφύλακας (el) m (chorofýlakas)
• Hebrew: זַ׳נְדַּרְם m (zhandárm)
• Hungarian: zsandár (hu), csendőr (hu)
• Italian: gendarme (it) m
• Japanese: 憲兵 (ja) (けんぺい, kenpei)
• Kazakh: жандарм (jandarm)
• Korean: 헌병(憲兵) (ko) (heonbyeong)
• Kyrgyz: жандарм (ky) (jandarm)
• Latvian: žandarms m
• Lithuanian: žandaras m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gendarm m

• Persian: ژاندارم (fa) (žândârm)
• Polish: żandarm (pl) m
• Portuguese: gendarme (pt) m
• Romanian: jandarm (ro) m
• Russian: жанда́рм (ru) m (žandárm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жандар m, жандарм m

  Roman: žandar (sh) m, žandarm (sh) m

• Slovak: žandár (sk) m
• Spanish: gendarme (es) m
• Swedish: gendarm (sv) c
• Tagalog: hendarme
• Tajik: жандарм (žandarm)
• Turkish: jandarma (tr)
• Turkmen: žandarm
• Ukrainian: жанда́рм (uk) m (žandárm)
• Uzbek: jandarm (uz)
• Vietnamese: sen đầm (vi), hiến binh (vi)
• Yiddish: זשאַנדאַרם m (zhandarm)

policeman — see policeman

rock pinnacle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 岩峰 (yánfēng)

• Czech: žandarm (cs) m
• Finnish: kalliopaasi
• Galician: coruncho m, curuto m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• red mange

French

Etymology

Singular extracted from plural gendarmes, which arose as a re-spelling of gens d’armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃.daʁm/

• Audio; “un gendarme”:

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Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties
2. firebug (the insect)
3. landjäger (a type of sausage)

Derived terms

• gendarme allongé

Descendants

• → English: gendarme
• → Franco-Provençal: g·endârme
• → Italian: gendarme
• → Ottoman Turkish: ژاندارمه (jandarma), ժանտարմա (jandarma) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: jandarma
  • → Armenian: ժանտարմա (žantarma)
  • → Laz: ჯანდამა (candama), ჟანდამა (jandama) — Arkabi, ჟანდარმა (jandarma) — Akçakoca, ჯანდარმა (candarma)
• → Romanian: jandarm
• → Russian: жандарм (žandarm)
  • → Armenian: ժանդարմ (žandarm)
  • → Georgian: ჟანდარმი (žandarmi)
  • → Uyghur: ژاندارما (zhandarma)
• → Persian: ژاندرم (žândarm)

Further reading

• “gendarme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Gendarme (charcuterie) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• démanger

Galician

Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xendarme

Further reading

• “gendarme” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒenˈdar.me/
• Rhymes: -arme
• Hyphenation: gen‧dàr‧me

Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmi)

1. policeman (armed)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒẽˈdaʁ.mi/ [ʒẽˈdaɦ.mi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒẽˈdaʁ.mi/ [ʒẽˈdaɦ.mi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʒẽˈdaɾ.mi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʒẽˈdaʁ.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒẽˈdaɻ.me/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒẽˈdaɾ.mɨ/

• Hyphenation: gen‧dar‧me

Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. gendarme (member of the gendarmerie)

Further reading

• “gendarme” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “gendarme”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “gendarme”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xenˈdaɾme/ [xẽn̪ˈd̪aɾ.me]
• Rhymes: -aɾme
• Syllabification: gen‧dar‧me

Noun

gendarme m or f by sense (plural gendarmes)

1. (law enforcement) policeperson (armed)

Related terms

• gendarmería f

 

Further reading

• “gendarme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10