warlord

See also: Warlord

English

Alternative forms

• war lord, war-lord

Etymology

From war +‎ lord.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔɹlɔɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːlɔːd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

warlord (plural warlords)

1. A high military officer in a warlike nation.
   • 2007 June 18, Nicholas Kristof, quoting Laurent Nkunda, “Dinner With a Warlord”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “I’m not a warlord … I’m a liberator of the people,” he said. That’s the problem: So are they all. More than four million people have died in Congo’s wars since 1998, making it the most lethal conflict since World War II.

2. A local ruler or bandit leader usually where the government is weak.
   • 2002 February 1, John F. Burns, “Warlord Fends Off Warlord, Echoing Afghans' Bitter Past”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Afghanistan's first major battle of the post-Taliban era ended tonight when the soldiers of the warlord besieging this strategic city south of Kabul ran out of ammunition and fled the battlefront in clouds of dust, cursing the warlord to his face for his callousness in committing them to a fight they were doomed to lose.

Derived terms

• warlording

Descendants

• → German: Warlord

Translations

high military officer in a warlike nation

• Arabic: أَمِير حَرْب (ʔamīr ḥarb)
• Bulgarian: военачалник (bg) m (voenačalnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍閥／军阀 (zh) (jūnfá), 督軍／督军 (zh) (dūjūn), 將軍／将军 (zh) (jiāngjun)

• Dutch: krijgsheer (nl)
• Estonian: sõjapealik
• Finnish: sotapäällikkö (fi)
• French: seigneur de guerre m
• German: Kriegsherr (de) m
• Greek: πολέμαρχος (el) m (polémarchos)
• Hungarian: hadúr (hu)
• Irish: taoiseach cogaidh m
• Italian: signore della guerra m
• Japanese: 将軍 (ja) (しょうぐん, shōgun)
• Khmer: ស្ដេចត្រាញ់ (sdach trañ), ស្ដេចសឹក (sdach sək)
• Korean: 장군(將軍) (ko) (janggun)
• Macedonian: војсководец m (vojskovodec)
• Occitan: senhor de la guèrra
• Portuguese: senhor da guerra m
• Russian: главнокома́ндующий (ru) m (glavnokomándujuščij) (commander in chief), военача́льник (ru) m (vojenačálʹnik), воево́да (ru) m (vojevóda), полково́дец (ru) m (polkovódec), кома́ндующий (ru) m (komándujuščij)
• Serbo-Croatian: ratni vođa m, gospodar rata m, vojskovođa (sh) m, војсковођа m
• Spanish: señor de la guerra m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} krigsherre c
• Turkish: komutan (tr)
• Welsh: cadlywydd m

local ruler or bandit leader where the government is weak

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍閥／军阀 (zh) (jūnfá), 督軍／督军 (zh) (dūjūn)

• Finnish: sotaherra (fi)
• French: seigneur de la guerre (fr) m
• German: Kriegsherr (de) m, Warlord (de) m
• Hungarian: hadúr (hu)
• Irish: taoiseach cogaidh m
• Italian: signore della guerra m
• Khmer: ស្ដេចត្រាញ់ (sdach trañ), ស្ដេចសឹក (sdach sək)
• Occitan: senhor de la guèrra
• Polish: watażka (pl) m
• Portuguese: caudilho (pt) m, senhor da guerra m
• Russian: полево́й команди́р (ru) m (polevój komandír), милитари́ст (ru) m (militaríst)
• Spanish: señor de la guerra m
• Swedish: krigsherre c
• Welsh: cadlywydd m

See also

• militia