gendarme

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʒɒn.ˈdɑːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʒɑn.ˈdɑɹm/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m

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.

• (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

• red mange

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

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃.daʁm/

• audio (un gendarme)

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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)

• gendarme allongé

• → English: gendarme
• → Italian: gendarme
• → Ottoman Turkish: ژاندارمه (jandarma)
  • Turkish: jandarma
  • → Armenian: ժանտարմա (žantarma)
• → Romanian: jandarm
• → Russian: жандарм (žandarm)
  • → Armenian: ժանդարմ (žandarm)
  • → Georgian: ჟანდარმი (žandarmi)
  • → Uyghur: ژاندارما (zhandarma)
• → Persian: ژاندرم (žândarm)

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

• démanger

Borrowed from French gendarme.

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

gendarme m (plural gendarmi)

1. policeman (armed)

• Hyphenation: gen‧dar‧me

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. gendarme (member of the gendarmerie)

Borrowed from French gendarme.

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

gendarme m or f by sense (plural gendarmes)

1. (law enforcement) policeperson (armed)

• “gendarme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014