reveille

See also: réveille and réveillé

English

WOTD – 22 May 2010

From French réveillez, imperative form of réveiller (“to wake”) .

reveille (countable and uncountable, plural reveilles)

(military) The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.
- 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 53:
  A bugler and his brisk reveille woke them most mornings.

the sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers

Armenian: ցայգանվագ (hy) (cʿayganvag)
Bulgarian: утринна заря f (utrinna zarja)
Catalan: diana (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 起床號／起床号 (zh) (qǐchuánghào), 晨號／晨号 (chénhào)
Czech: budíček (cs) m
Danish: reveille (da) c
Finnish: herätys (fi), aamusoitto
French: diane (fr) f, réveil (fr) m
German: Wecken (de) n, Weckruf (de) m
Greek: εγερτήριο (el) n (egertírio)
Hungarian: ébresztő (hu)
Italian: diana, sveglia (it)
Japanese: (horn) 起床らっぱ (きしょうらっぱ, kishō rappa), (drum) 起床太鼓 (きしょうたいこ, kishō taiko), 朝礼 (ja) (ちょうれい, chōrei)
Norwegian: revelje m
Portuguese: alvorada (pt) f
Russian: у́тренняя заря́ f (útrennjaja zarjá) (scout or pioneer camp), побу́дка (ru) f (pobúdka), подъём (ru) m (podʺjóm)
Slovak: budíček (sk) m
Spanish: diana (es)
Swedish: revelj (sv) c, väckning (sv)
Tagalog: diyana

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