gendarmerie

See also: Gendarmerie

English

Alternative forms

• gendarmery

Etymology

From French gendarmerie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɒn.dɑː.mə.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɑn.dɑɹ.mə.ɹi/

Noun

gendarmerie (plural gendarmeries)

1. A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.
   • 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 259:

     We must defend it till the Gendarmerie turn out. Keep after me.

Related terms

• gendarme

Translations

military body charged with police duties

• Albanian: xhandarmëri (sq) f
• Arabic: دَرَك m (darak), جَنْدَرْمَة f (jandarma), حَرَس m (ḥaras)
• Armenian: ժանդարմերիա (hy) (žandarmeria)
• Azerbaijani: jandarmeriya
• Belarusian: жандарме́рыя f (žandarmjéryja), жандармэ́рыя f (žandarméryja)
• Bulgarian: жандарме́рия f (žandarmérija)
• Carpathian Rusyn: жандарме́рія f (žandarmérija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國家憲兵／国家宪兵 (guójiā xiànbīng), 憲兵／宪兵 (zh) (xiànbīng)

• Czech: četnictvo (cs) n, žandarmerie (cs) f
• Danish: gendarmeri n
• Dutch: rijkswacht (nl) f, gendarmerie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ĝendarmo (eo)
• Estonian: sandarmeeria
• Finnish: santarmi (fi)
• French: gendarmerie (fr) f
• Georgian: ჟანდარმერია (žandarmeria)
• German: Gendarmerie (de) f
• Greek: χωροφυλακή (el) f (chorofylakí)

  Ancient Greek: χωρόφυλαξ m (khōróphulax)

• Hebrew: זַ׳נְדַּרְמֶרְיָה f (zhandarmerya)
• Hungarian: csendőrség (hu)
• Indonesian: gendarmeri (id), marinyo (id)
• Italian: carabinieri (it) pl, gendarmeria f
• Japanese: 国家憲兵 (ja) (こっかけんぺい, kokka kenpei), 憲兵 (ja) (けんぺい, kenpei)
• Kazakh: жандармерия (jandarmeriä)
• Korean: 국가 헌병(國家憲兵) (gukga heonbyeong), 헌병(憲兵) (ko) (heonbyeong)
• Kyrgyz: жандармерия (ky) (jandarmeriya)
• Latvian: žandarmērija f
• Lithuanian: žandarmerija f
• Macedonian: жандармерија f (žandarmerija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gendarmeri

• Persian: ژاندارمری (fa) (žândârmeri)
• Polish: żandarmeria (pl) f
• Portuguese: gendarmeria f, gendarmaria (pt) f
• Romanian: jandarmerie (ro) f
• Russian: жандарме́рия (ru) f (žandarmérija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жандармерија f, оружништво n

  Roman: žandarmerija (sh) f, oružništvo (sh) n

• Slovak: žandárstvo n, žandarméria f
• Slovene: žandarmerija f
• Spanish: gendarmería f
• Swedish: gendarmeri (sv) n
• Tajik: жандармерия (žandarmeriya)
• Turkish: jandarma (tr), jandarmalar pl
• Turkmen: žandarmeriýa
• Ukrainian: жандарме́рія (uk) f (žandarmérija)
• Uzbek: jandarmeriya (uz)
• Vietnamese: sen đầm (vi), hiến binh (vi)

French

Etymology

From gendarme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

gendarmerie f (plural gendarmeries)

1. the military branch of the French police service

Related terms

• gendarme

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

gendarmerie f pl

1. plural of gendarmeria