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Etymology
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From Middle French cavalerie , in turn from Italian cavalleria . Recorded in English from the 1540s. Doublet of chivalry .
Pronunciation
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A cavalry of soldiers.
cavalry (countable and uncountable , plural cavalries )
( military , historical , 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 .
( figurative ) Source of rescue, especially in an emergency.
call in the cavalry
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Translations
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military service that fights with riding horses
Afrikaans: kavallerie
Albanian: kalorësi (sq) f
Amharic: የፈረሰኞች ጭፍራ ? ( yäfäräsäñoč č̣əfra )
Arabic: فَارِس (ar) m ( fāris ) , سِلَاح الفُرْسَان m ( silāḥ al-fursān )
Egyptian Arabic: خيالة f ( ḵayyāla )
Armenian: հեծելազոր (hy) ( hecelazor ) , այրուձի (hy) ( ayruji ) , հեծել (hy) ( hecel )
Old Armenian: հեծելազօր ( hecelazōr ) , այրուձի ( ayruji )
Azerbaijani: atlı qoşun
Basque: zalduneria
Belarusian: кавале́рыя f ( kavaljéryja ) , конніца f ( kónnica )
Breton: marc'hegiezh m
Bulgarian: кавалерия (bg) f ( kavalerija ) , конница f ( konnica )
Catalan: cavalleria (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 騎兵 / 骑兵 (zh) ( qíbīng )
Czech: jezdectvo (cs) 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 )
Ancient: ἱππεῖς m pl ( hippeîs ) , ἱππικόν n ( hippikón )
Hebrew: חיל-פרשים m ( kheil-parashym )
Hindi: घुड़सवार सेना f ( ghuṛasvār senā ) , घुड़सवार फ़ौज f ( ghuṛasvār fauj ) , रिसाला (hi) m ( risālā )
Hungarian: lovasság (hu)
Icelandic: riddaralið f
Ido: kavalrio (io)
Indonesian: kavaleri (id)
Irish: marcra m , marcshlua m
Italian: cavalleria (it) f
Japanese: 騎兵 (ja) ( kihei ) , 騎兵隊 (ja) ( kiheitai )
Kalmyk: мөрн церг ( mörn tserg )
Kazakh: атты әскер ( atty äsker )
Korean: 기병대 (ko) ( gibyeongdae )
Latin: equitātus m
Latvian: kavalērija f
Lithuanian: kavalerija f
Low German:
Eastphalian: Pervolk ?
Macedonian: коњаница f ( konjanica )
Malay: husar
Manchu: ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠨ ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ ( morin cooha ) , ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠨ ᡳ ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ ( morin-i cooha ) , ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠩᡤᠠ ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ ( moringga cooha )
Maori: taua eke hōiho
Mon: ဒပ်ပၞာန်ချေံ (mnw) , သရာဲပၞာန်ချေံ (mnw)
Mongolian: морин цэрэг ( morin cereg )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kavaleri n
Nynorsk: kavaleri n
Occitan: cavalariá (oc) f
Pali: assasenā f
Persian: سوارهنظام ( savâre-nezâm )
Polish: jazda (pl) f , kawaleria (pl) f , konnica (pl) 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 , kalvária f
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
an individual unit of cavalry
References
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Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. →ISBN , →ISBN
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