English
Noun
cavalry (plural cavalries)
- (military, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
- (military, countable) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.
- (military, countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.
Derived terms
Translations
military service that fights with riding horses
- Afrikaans: kavallerie
- Albanian: kalorësi (sq)
- Amharic: የፈረሰኞች ጭፍራ (yäfäräsäñoč č̣fra)
- Arabic: فَارِس (ar) m (fāris), سلاح الفرسان m (silāḥ al-fursān)
- Armenian: հեծելազոր (hy) (hecelazor), այրուձի (hy) (ayruji), հեծել (hy) (hecel)
- Old Armenian: հեծելազօր (hecelazōr), այրուձի (ayruji)
- Azeri: atlı qoşun
- Basque: zalduneria
- Belarusian: кавале́рыя f (kavaljéryja), конніца f (konnica)
- Breton: marc'hegiezh m
- Bulgarian: кавалерия (bg) f (kavalerija), конница f (konnica)
- Catalan: cavalleria (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 騎兵 (zh), 骑兵 (zh) (qíbīng)
- Czech: jezdectvo n, kavalérie (cs) f
- Danish: kavaleri n
- Dutch: cavalerie (nl) f
- Esperanto: kavalerio
- Estonian: ratsavägi
- Finnish: ratsuväki (fi)
- French: cavalerie (fr) f
- Galician: cabalaría (gl) f
- Georgian: ცხენოსანი ჯარი (cxenosani ǯari), კავალერია (ḳavaleria)
- German: Reiterei (de) f, Kavallerie (de) f
- Greek: ιππικό (el) n (ippikó)
- Hebrew: חיל-פרשים m (kheil-parashym)
- Hungarian: lovasság (hu)
- Icelandic: riddaralið f
- Ido: kavalrio (io)
- Indonesian: kavaleri (id)
- Irish: marcra m, marcshlua m
- Italian: cavalleria (it) f
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- Japanese: 騎兵 (ja) (kihei), 騎兵隊 (ja) (kiheitai)
- Kalmyk: мөрн церг (mörn tserg)
- Korean: 기병대 (ko) (gibyeongdae)
- Latin: equitatus m
- Latvian: kavalērija f
- Lithuanian: kavalerija f
- Macedonian: коњаница f (konjanica)
- Malay: husar
- Maori: taua eke hōiho
- Mongolian: морин цэрэг (morin tsereg)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kavaleri n
- Nynorsk: kavaleri n
- Occitan: cavalariá f
- Persian: سوارهنظام (savâre-nezâm)
- Polish: kawaleria (pl) f, konnica f
- Portuguese: cavalaria (pt) f
- Romanian: cavalerie (ro) f
- Russian: кавале́рия (ru) f (kavalérija), ко́нница (ru) f (kónnica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̏њӣца f, ко̏њаӣштво n
- Roman: kȍnjīca (sh) f, kȍnjanīštvo (sh) n
- Slovak: jazdectvo n
- Slovene: konjenica (sl) f
- Spanish: caballería (es) f
- Swedish: kavalleri (sv) n
- Tagalog: kabayuhan
- Thai: ทหารม้า (tha-haan-maa)
- Turkish: süvari (tr)
- Ukrainian: кінно́та (uk) f (kinnóta), кавале́рія (uk) f (kavalérija)
- Vietnamese: kỵ binh (vi)
- Welsh: marchoglu m, marchfilwr m, cafalri m
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an individual unit of cavalry
References
- Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. ISBN 978 2 87772 369 5, ISBN 2 87772 237 6
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