dojo

Borrowed from Japanese 道(どう)場(じょう) (dōjō, literally “place of the ways”): 道(どう) (dō, “road; way”) + 場(じょう) (jō, “place”).

ja-r

(martial arts) a training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training


party

→ Bulgarian: парти (parti)

Chinese:

desc

Cantonese: → 派對 /派对 (paai³ deoi³), → party, ⇒ P

→ Mandarin: 趴體 /趴体 (pātǐ), 派對 /派对 (pàiduì)

→ Dhivehi: ޕާޓީ (pāṭī)

→ Japanese: パーティー (pātī)

→ Korean: 파티 (pati)

→ Maori: pāti

→ Malay: parti

→ Russian: пати (pati), → Russian: парти (parti)

From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Old French partie (“side, part; portion, share; separation, division”, literally “that which is divided”), noun use of feminine of past participle of Old French partir (“to divide, separate”), from Latin partire (“to share, part, distribute, divide”), from pars (“a part, piece, a share”); see also part. First attested in c. 1300. Doublet of partita. The sense of communist party of a communist state derives Russian партия (partija), short for Коммунистическая партия (Kommunističeskaja partija).

حِزْب

group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.

гру́па

group of people travelling or attending an event together

business in the front, party in the back

boarding party

The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.

(military) A detachment of troops selected for a particular service or duty.


asset

→ Malay: aset

Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.


squash

en-noun

squash (countable and uncountable, plural squashes)

→ Catalan: esquaix

→ Czech: squash

→ Dutch: kwast

Afrikaans: kwas

→ Finnish: squash

→ French: squash

→ Japanese: スカッシュ (sukasshu)

→ Korean: 스쿼시 (seukwosi)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: squash

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: squash

→ Polish: squash

→ Portuguese: squash

→ Russian: сквош (skvoš)

→ Swedish: squash

From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).

It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent.

Orr, James (2014 August 18) “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted to John Cena vs Brock Lesnar”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Independent, retrieved 2015-07-30

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.


東

→ English: higashi

/ɸiŋɡaɕi/ → /ɸiɡaɕi/ → /hiɡaɕi/
Sound shift from hingashi (see Etymology 2 below).
Now the standard word for east.

(sumo) higher-ranked wrestlers listed on the right of a banzuke


password

passwords (plural)
pass-word (alternative)

From pass + word; the sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.

Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions.

(military, security) A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.


mark

marks (plural)
marke (alternative obsolete)
merk (alternative obsolete)
marc (alternative obsolete)

→ Bengali: মার্কা (marka)

→ Cantonese: 嘜 /唛 (mak¹, maak¹)

desc

→ Shanghainese: 麥克麥克 /麦克麦克 (⁸maq-kheq₇-maq₈-kheq₇)

→ Japanese: マーク (māku)

→ Korean: 마크 (makeu)

From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”).
Compare march.
Cognates
* Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”)
* German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“mark, brand”)
* Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”)
* Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”)
* Latin margo (“edge, margin”)
* Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”)
* Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”).

cog

(professional wrestling slang) Condescending label of a wrestling fan who refuses to believe that pro wrestling is predetermined and/or choreographed.


penguin

→ Assamese: পেঙ্গুইন (peṅguin)

→ Burmese: ပင်ဂွင် (panggwang)

desctree

→ Dutch: pinguïn, pinguin (superseded, dated)
Afrikaans: pikkewyn
→ French: pingouin
→ Danish: pingvin
→ Italian: pinguino
→ Persian: پنگوئن (pangu'an)
→ Portuguese: pinguim
→ Romanian: pinguin
→ Spanish: pingüino
→ Swedish: pingvin
→ Turkish: penguen

→ Hawaiian: penekuina

→ Japanese: ペンギン (pengin)

→ Khmer: ភេនឃ្វីន (pheinkhviin)

→ Korean: 펭귄 (penggwin)

→ Thai: เพนกวิน (pen-gwîn)

→ Welsh: pengwin

Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *kʷennom
Proto-Brythonic *penn
Welsh pen?
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.?
Proto-Celtic *windos
Proto-Brythonic *gwɨnn
Welsh gwyn?
Proto-Indo-European *peyH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-influ.?
Latin pinguisder.?
English penguin
Unknown; first attested in the 16th century in reference to the auk of the Northern hemisphere; the word was later applied to the superficially similar birds of the Southern hemisphere (as was woggin). Possibly from Welsh pen (“head”) and gwyn (“white”), or from Latin pinguis (“fat”). See citations and the Wikipedia article.
(nun): Because of the often black-and-white habit, resembling the bird's colors.

etymon

Although it is a permanent R.A.F. station (pre-war, that is), we meander about, even in the Mess, in battle dress and flying boots, sweaters, etc., much to the disgust of some of the more dignified 'penguins' […]

1942, Hermann Hagedorn, Sunward I've Climbed, page 143:

Notwithstanding his elevated status as the wing’s Senior Intelligence Officer, Monty, too, was a “penguin,” equal in that respect to an armament assistant, airframe mechanic, pigeon loftsman or any of the seventy-odd ground trades listed by the Royal Canadian Air Force at the war’s end.

1994, Monty Berger, Invasions without tears: the story of Canada's top-scoring Spitfire wing in Europe during the Second World War, →ISBN, →LCCN, page xi:

She may have been a “penguin”—an Air Force service member who didn't fly—but it sure beat being at home, as Brady had pointed out.

2015 June 1, Kate Christie, In the Company of Women, Bella Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:

This was to be my home for three months where ground officer cadets, referred to colloquially as ‘penguins’ were trained.

2019 November 5, Derek Esp, An Adventure in Education: The Autobiography of an Accidental Career in Education, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:

(UK, military, slang) A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.


㓤

GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)


mask

Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā from which English mesh is regularly inherited.
Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
Compare also Hebrew מַסֵּכָה (masseiḥa).

蒙版

two-color bitmap used to create transparency in an image

(fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.

kaponieeria suojaava redutti

fortification: redoubt which protects the caponiere


mask

en-verb

mask (third-person singular simple present masks, present participle masking, simple past and past participle masked)

masks (present singular third-person)
masking (participle present)
masked (participle past)
masked (past)
masque (alternative)

(transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out

(transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.


刺

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰeɡs, *sʰeɡ): phonetic 朿 (OC *sʰeɡs) + semantic 刂 (“knife”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-tshyar ~ *g-zyar (“thorn, nail, tack”) (provisional) (STEDT); cognate with Tibetan ཚེར་མ (tsher ma, “thorn, thorn bush”), གཟེར་བ (gzer ba, “to bore into”), and གཟེར (gzer, “nail”) (Schuessler, 2007).
刺 (OC *tsekh) "attack, satirize" (Zuozhuan) < "criticize" (Shijing) < lit. "cause to be stabbed" is exopassive/exoactive derivation of 刺 (OC *tsek) "pierce, stab" (ibid.); 朿 (OC tsʰie^C) "thorn" (SW) is Han period's general tone-C derivation of 刺 (OC *tsʰiek) (ibid.)

cog

(fencing) to thrust; to attack the opponent at an area parallel to the weapon's length

假直刺


劈

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pʰeːɡ): phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”).
Note similarities to Tagalog biyák (“split, crack”) and Burmese ပျက် (pyak, “to be destroyed”).

Han compound

(fencing) to cut; to deliver an attack with a chopping motion, landing on the edge or tip of the weapon

複雜還擊劈

复杂还击劈


cycle

→ Japanese: サイクル (saikuru)

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, and wheel (see there for more).

pyörä

bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle etc. — see also bicycle

Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.

2014, R.T. Wyant, Thomas Burns, Risk Management of Less Lethal Options, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 211:


営

From Middle Chinese 營 (MC yweng).
The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.


團

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (團):
* → Vietnamese: đoàn (團)

→ Lü: ᦒᦸᧃᧉ (thoan²)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *doːn): semantic 囗 + phonetic 專 (OC *tjon).


型

Noun senses are attested from the 8th century, with suffix use later. See 形(かた) (kata). Compare also 姿(すがた) (sugata, “appearance, likeness”), 模(かたぎ) (katagi, “model, pattern, template”).

ja-r

(martial arts) kata (choreographed training exercises)


壕

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡaːw): semantic 土 (“earth; dirt”) + phonetic 豪 (OC *ɡaːw).


將

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋs): phonetic 爿 (OC *braːn, *zaŋ, “bed; small table”) + semantic ⺼ (“meat”) + semantic 寸 (“hand”) – to offer meat as tribute. Besides pronunciation, 爿 may partly indicate a small cutting board and/or sacrificial table on which the meat is placed. The sacrificial meat and the hand together form the shape 𪧷, which is similar but unrelated to 有.
The ⺼ component is on its side, hence resembles 夕 with an added dot; compare 祭, 然.
Shuowen erroneously considers the phonetic component of 將 to be 醬 (OC *ʔsaŋs, “sauce”) (abbreviated).
A conflation of two roots: “to take; to hold” and “will; be going to; near”.
; “to take; to hold” (Pronunciations 1, 2 and 3)
; “will; be going to; near” (Pronunciation 1)
; anteposed object introductory particle


將

tương (romanization)
tướng (romanization)

chữ Hán form of tướng
(military) general; commander

chữ Hán form of tướng
general; commander


帥

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 寻 (“two hands”) + 巾 (“scarf”) - to wear a scarf. Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sruds, *srud): phonetic 𠂤 (*C.tˤuj) + semantic 巾.
Also written as 率 (OC *sruds, *rud, *srud, “to lead”); both represent the s-causative of 律 (OC *rud, “to follow”). Cognate with Tibetan སྲིད (srid, “commander, leader”).

cog

The Master said: "The three armies' commander can be seized. The common man's will cannot be deprived."

The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

Zǐyuē: “Sānjūn kě duó shuài yě, pǐfū bùkě duó zhì yě.”

子曰：「三軍可奪帥也，匹夫不可奪志也。」

子曰：「三军可夺帅也，匹夫不可夺志也。」

If the king appoints respected officers as commanders, there will be harmony in the military.

Shàng shuài shì yǐ rén zhī suǒ dài, zé shàngxià hé.

上帥士以人之所戴，則上下和。

上帅士以人之所戴，则上下和。

五年... 秋八月，方叔帥師伐荊蠻

4th cent. BC, 《竹書紀年》 (Bamboo Annals), s.v. "周宣王" (Xuan King)

Year 5 [c. 820 BC]... Autumn, Month 8: "Uncle" Fang led a force to slaughter the Jingman.

(military) to command; to lead (and give orders to); to designate


師

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (師):
* → Japanese: 師(し) (shi)
* → Korean: 사(師) (sa)
* → Vietnamese: sư (師)

→ Vietnamese: thầy

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 𠂤 (“mound, hill”) + 帀 – ancient troops were usually stationed at a hill.
Each of the two components can be used as 師 on their own in preclassical scripts. The significance of 帀 is debated. See also 官 and 追.
Starostin derives this word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rij (“many”), cognate with 皆 (OC *kriːj, “all”), 偕 (OC *kriːj, “together with”), as well as Tibetan ཁྲི (khri, “ten thousand”) and Burmese ရဲ (rai:, “police”).

Han compound

师
𠦵
𠵀
𢂖
𢃋
𨸲
𨸴
𩇱

We went along on foot; we rode in our chariots; our 2500-strong regiment, and our 500-strong battalions.

The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

我徒我御，我師我旅。

我徒我御，我师我旅。

(historical, military) division of 2500 soldiers

(military) division; a large body of troops composing part of an army


弓

Bow (music)
Bow and arrow
Man'yōshū
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Yumi
ja:弓 (楽器)
ja:弓 (武器)

From Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *yumi. Appears in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE), with a phonetic spelling of 由美 ⟨yumi₁⟩, */yumʲi/.

梓弓

a bow made from the wood of the Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa

破魔弓

a traditional Shintō ceremonial bow for dispel evil

鏃 (yajiri): arrowhead; 簳 (yagara): arrow-shaft; 羽 (hane): arrow-fletching

仗, 杖: yumi stave; 弦: yumi bowstring; 矢: an arrow; 靫): a quiver; 胸当て: kyudo plastron/chestguard; 弽: kyudo glove; 弩

a bow:
(weaponry) a bow for shooting arrows


拳

From Middle Chinese 拳 (MC gjwen).
The standalone noun senses are first cited to texts from the 1500s.

蟷螂拳

太極拳

波動拳

1999 February 20 [1994 April 15], Rumiko Takahashi, “ＰＡＲＴ(パート).２ [海](うみ)[千](せん)[拳](けん)と[山](やま)[千](せん)[拳](けん) [PART.2 Umisenken and Yamasenken]”, in らんま½ [Ranma ½], 10th edition, volume 28 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN:

海千拳？

海千拳？

2000 December 20 [1999 May 17], Maekawa, Takeshi, “水(すい)面(めん)の戦(たたか)いの巻(まき) [Water Struggle]”, in 新(しん)鉄(てっ)拳(けん)チンミ [New Ironfist Chinmi], 2nd edition, volume 6 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, pages 158–161:

通背拳⁉吊り橋でみせたあの技で 水を‥‥‼

Tsūhaiken⁉ Tsurihashi de miseta ano waza de Mizu o‥‥‼

Tongbeiquan⁉ I saw him use this move at the suspension bridge, but now on water‥‥⁉

通背拳⁉吊り橋でみせたあの技で 水を‥‥‼

通背拳⁉吊り橋でみせたあの技で 水を‥‥‼

通背拳⁉吊り橋でみせたあの技で 水を‥‥‼

2001 January 23, Masami Kurumada, “女神(アテナ)の聖闘士(セイント)の巻(まき) [Athena’s Saints]”, in Saint(セイント)星(セイ)矢(ヤ) [Saint Seiya], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 60:

ペガサス流星拳‼

2004 September 8, Nobuhiro Watsuki, “第(だい)36話(わ) カーニバル［祭(まつり)］ [Chapter 36: Carnival]”, in 武(ブ)装(ソウ)錬(レン)金(キン) [Armed Alchemy], volume 4, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

直撃！ブラボー拳‼

(martial arts) used in the names of styles, or moves that involve punching


掌

掌 (canonical)
-shō (romanization)
-syau (romanization)
しやう (hiragana historical)

条拳法 八卦六十四掌

Jūkenpō: Eight Trigrams, Sixty-Four Palms

2003 September 22, Akinobu Uraku, “第(だい)60話(わ) 少(しょう)女(じょ)の決(けつ)意(い) [Chapter 60: A Girl’s Resolve]”, in 東(とう)京(きょう)アンダーグラウンド [Tokyo Underground], volume 11 (fiction), Square Enix, →ISBN, pages 30–31:

This is the flame that helped put me, Seki, at the top of the Supei!!! Garyū Sōrenshō

これがこの赤を師兵の頂点たらしめる炎だッ!!!我龍双煉掌

Kore ga kono Seki o Sūpei no chōten tarashimeru honō da'!!! Garyū Sōrenshō

(martial arts) used in the names of moves that involve hitting and pushing hard with the palm


排

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *brɯːl): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 非 (OC *pɯl) – to place in line.
Note resemblance to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s/m-ba ~ *s/m-baːy (“to throw”), whence Burmese ပယ် (pai, “to reject, disqualify”).


撻

挞
挞
挞
挞
挞
躂
挞

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, archery) leather grip at the nocking point in a bow string


操

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰaːw, *sʰaːws): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 喿 (OC *saːws).


igloo

From Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, building (of any kind)”), from Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu, from Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu.

hogan

used by the Navajo in the southwestern United States

wetu

used by the Wampanoag in the northeastern United States

wickiup

used in the southwestern and western United States

General James Walsh signalled Strategic Air Command that the B-47 tore apart the igloo and knocked about 3 mark sixes.

2011, Robert Hutchinson, Weapons of Mass Destruction:

(military) A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons.


旅

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 㫃 (“flag”) + 从 (“together”) – brigade. Hence, the original version is 𣃨.
The top component of the character is unrelated to 每, 伤, 复, 乞 as well as 人.
;anything lined up in a regular fashion > one after another > line up in a row, set forth; troops, multitude
;guest, stranger, lodging


星

/posi/ → /ɸoɕi/ → /hoɕi/
From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pəsi.

(sumo) a round mark indicating a victory or defeat in a bout


alert

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).

an airborne alert; ground alert

(military) A state of readiness for potential combat.


alert

alert (nominative singular)
alerty (nominative plural)
alertu (genitive singular)
alertów (genitive plural)
alertowi (dative singular)
alertom (dative plural)
alert (accusative singular)
alerty (accusative plural)
alertem (instrumental singular)
alertami (instrumental plural)
alercie (locative singular)
alertach (locative plural)
alercie (singular vocative)
alerty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French alerte or English alert, from Italian all'erta. First attested in the second half of the 20th century.

etydate

(military) alert (state of readiness for potential combat)


木

⟨ki₂⟩ → */kɨ/ → /ki/
From Old Japanese 木 (ki₂), from Proto-Japonic *kəi. Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *ke. For the vowel alternation, see Wiktionary:About Proto-Japonic § Standalone forms and combining forms.
First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.

猿も木から落ちる

even monkeys fall from trees → nobody's perfect

(theater, sumo, etc.) a clapper used to signal the opening or closing of a match or play


槍

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of 遣る (yaru, “to do, execute → to kill”).


次

Characters in the same phonetic series (次) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and possibly phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sn̥ʰis): phonetic 二 (OC *njis, “two”) + semantic 欠. Given that the right part of the character depicts a man kneeling with an open mouth, the number two perhaps indicates "two people speaking".
As an alternative, the two horizontal traits 二 are the representation of some saliva spitted while speaking; hence, the act of speaking is represented without a reference to blown air or breathing (e.g., 曰, 丂, 于, 只). The original meaning was "to consult", 咨. Perhaps related to 㳄, which means "saliva"; however, this is not the original version of the character, but a variant.
Given that the character started meaning "following; inferior (to)", the component 二 in this second translation adds part of the meaning if interpreted as a number.
In all cases, the Kangxi radical "Ice" is a false friend of either "Number two" or two drops representing saliva; however, in some fonts, it is still possible to see 二. An old variant of the character is 𣄭.
Probably from *s- + 二 (OC *njis, “two”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-ni-s (Pulleyblank, 1962; Sagart and Baxter, 2012; STEDT).

Han compound

Spring, the first month (of Zhou calendar), the armies of Lu were stationed at Lang to await those of Chen and Cai.

Chūn wáng zhēngyuè, shī cì yú Láng, yǐ sì Chénrén, Càirén.

春王正月，師次于郎，以俟陳人、蔡人。

春王正月，师次于郎，以俟陈人、蔡人。

Wáng chū Sānjiāng àn Wǔhú, lóuchuán kuàhǎi cì Yángdū.

王出三江按五湖，樓船跨海次揚都。

王出三江按五湖，楼船跨海次扬都。

(archaic, military) to station the troops at some place; to hold position at some place


步

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 止 (“foot”) + 止 (“foot”) reversed – one foot in front of the other. Compare: 夅, 舛, other characters deriving from "two feet". See also the inner component of 歲. Unrelated to 少.

歨
𣥕
歩
𡵯
𰰦
𣥗
𣥶
𩣝


殿

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (殿):
* → Vietnamese: điện (殿)

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tɯːns, *dɯːns): phonetic 𡱂 (OC *duːn) + semantic 殳 (“hand holding a weapon”) – the sound of hitting (not attested in ancient documents).
Chi (2010) considers the character to be developed from 𠂤 (“buttocks”); 尸 (“body”) and 丌 (“pedestal”) are added to form 𡱂 (“buttocks”), and 殳 is added to emphasize the meaning of “hitting the buttocks”.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-t(u/i)l (“buttocks; heel; dull; blunt; rounded part”). Compare Jingpho shatin (“buttocks”). Related to 臀 (OC *duːn, “buttocks”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Whether “lofty building” is related is unclear; Chi (2010) suggests that it is a semantic extension of “buttocks”, which are elevated from the ground.

inh

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, military) rear


size

en-verb

size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)

sizes (present singular third-person)
sizing (participle present)
sized (participle past)
sized (past)

Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be paid”, from Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”), from the verb asseoir (“to sit down”), from Latin assidēre, composed of ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit; settle down”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Displaced native Old English miċelnes (literally “bigness”).

ncog

(transitive) To classify or arrange by size.

(military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.


group

groups (plural)
groop (alternative nonstandard)
groupe (alternative obsolete)

→ Gulf Arabic: قروب (grūp)

→ Japanese: グループ (gurūpu)

→ Korean: 그룹 (geurup)

→ Tongan: kulupu

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Frankish *krupp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).
In the “group theory” sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830.
Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.


Kugel

de-noun

Kugel f (genitive Kugel, plural Kugeln, diminutive Kügelchen n or (both rare) Kügelein n or Küglein n)

Kugel (genitive)
Kugeln (plural)
Kügelchen (diminutive neuter)
Kügelein (diminutive neuter rare)
Küglein (diminutive neuter rare)
Kugel (nominative singular)
Kugeln (definite nominative plural)
Kugel (genitive singular)
Kugeln (definite genitive plural)
Kugel (dative singular)
Kugeln (dative definite plural)
Kugel (accusative singular)
Kugeln (accusative definite plural)

→ Kashubian: kùgla

desc

→ Polish: kula (meanings other than "crutch")

→ Serbo-Croatian: kugla

From Middle High German kugel, kugele, of uncertain origin, but probably related to Keule (“club”).
 Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“knobbed instrument”), a derivative of*kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), an extension of *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve””), whence also perhaps Albanian gogël (“acorn, small ball”).
Further discussion
Outside of loans from German (as in Danish kugle and Dutch kogel), it appears only in German, and only from the Middle High German period, as kugel, kugele, referring to a ball used in games (Spielkugel).
Nevertheless, the word seems to be of genuinely Germanic origin. A Swiss dialect form has an additional r, in krugle, found already in Middle High German in the diminutive form krúgellin (Konrad of Würzburg, d. 1287).
Middle German variants of the word in the original sense “ball used in skittles or Paille-maille” are kaule, kulle, while Low German had cognates of Klotz.
The sense “bullet” is directly via comparison with the ball in skittles, already in use for lead or iron spheres used as projectiles (fired with slingshots or similar) before firearms became widespread.
Also compared are Kegel (“pin or peg used in a game (such as skittles)”), as well as English cudgel and cog, though these connections are far from certain.

der

Die Kugel ging mitten ins Herz.

The bullet went right through the heart.

Er hatte noch drei Kugeln im Magazin.

He had three rounds left in the magazine.

(firearms, loosely) round, cartridge, bullet


game

en-noun

game (countable and uncountable, plural games)

→ Brazilian Portuguese: game

→ Dutch: gamen, game

→ Finnish: geimit

→ Irish: géim

→ Japanese: ゲーム

→ Korean: 게임 (geim), 겜 (gem)

→ Norman: gamme

→ Norwegian: gamen, game

→ Spanish: game

→ Welsh: gêm

From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.

cog

(countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.


stealth

en-verb

stealth (third-person singular simple present stealths, present participle stealthing, simple past and past participle stealthed)

stealths (present singular third-person)
stealthing (participle present)
stealthed (participle past)
stealthed (past)

From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).

(especially military, computing) To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.


stealth

(military, aviation, vehicles, technology) Having properties that diminish radar signatures.


fast

From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.
The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).

(archery) Ellipsis of stand fast, a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.


file

From French file, from filer (“to spin out, arrange one behind another”), from Latin fīlāre, from filum (“thread”).

(military) A small detachment of soldiers.


Andrew

en-prop

Andrew (countable and uncountable, plural Andrews)

[ˈeᵊnˌd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʊ̈u]

[ˈænˌd̠ɹ̠ʷ˔ʊ̈u]

From Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreîos, “manly”), both from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”). Doublet of André, Andreas, Andrei, and Andrey.

doublet

A common British catch phrase is, "You shouldn't have joined Andrew if you couldn't take a joke."

1984, Robert Hendrickson, Salty Words, page 19:

“Me muvver always said I should a joined the Andrew.” (Royal Navy.)

2011, Johannes H. L. Bosman, The Plough & the Sword, page 257:


營

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɢʷeŋ): abbreviated phonetic 熒 (OC *ɡʷeːŋ) + abbreviated semantic 宮 (“palace”), depicting a person working all night with a light on his house.


occupation

en-noun

occupation (countable and uncountable, plural occupations)

/ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən/

/ˌɒkjəˈpeɪʃən/

/ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/

/ˌɑkjəˈpeɪʃən/

From Middle English occupacioun, borrowed from Middle French occupacion, occupation, from Latin occupātiō, occupātiōnis, from occupō (“occupy, seize”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to seize, grab”). By surface analysis, occupy + -ation.

der

The early years of Norman occupation saw a frenzy of castle building.

1999, Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell, “1066[:] The Normans Begin to Erect Castles”, in dictionary of english down through the ages[:] words & phrases born out of historical events great & small, 2005 edition, London: Kyle Cathie Limited, →ISBN, page 17:

The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".

2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian:

(geopolitics, military) The control of a nation or region by a hostile military or paramilitary force.

okupacion

control of a country or region by a hostile army


window

en-noun

window (countable and uncountable, plural windows)

From Middle English wyndowe, wyndown, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye; wind-hole”), equivalent to wind + eye. Cognate with Scots windae and windock, Faroese vindeyga, Norwegian Bokmål vindu, Norwegian Nynorsk vindauge, Danish vindue, archaic Swedish vindöga, Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. Displaced native Old English ēagþȳrel (literally “eye hole”) (the rare direct descendant is eyethurl (“window, pupil, etc.”)). The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through .

ncog

not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

(military, historical, uncountable) Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)


班

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (班):
* → Japanese: 班(はん) (han)
* → Korean: 반(班) (ban)
* → Vietnamese: ban (班)

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 珏 (“pieces of jade”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to cut jade to pieces with knife. The pieces of jade appear as a more conservative version 玨. The knife in the middle is well visibile in the conservative variant 𤤻. Unrelated to 师.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(b/p)ral (“to leave, depart, separate”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan བྲལ་བ (bral ba, “to be separated”), འཕྲལ་བ ('phral ba, “to cause to be separated, to separate”), Miju phɑ̆l⁵³ (“to pull (weeds)”), phɹɯl⁵⁵ lɑ³⁵ (“to collapse”), Thulung phal si- (“to collapse”), Burmese ပြား (pra:, “various”), Jingpho pə³¹-ran³¹.
Karlgren (1933) grouped 班 (OC *praːn), 半 (OC *paːns), and 釆 (OC *brens) into one word family.
Schuessler (2007) also pointed to Austroasiatic comparanda semantically closer to Chinese; such as Khmer រាល (riəl, “to spread, extend, distribute”) and Khmer ព្រាល (priəl, “to spread”) with causative prefix *p-.
Possibly the same etymon as 斑 (OC *praːn, “variegated, spotted, striped”), which may be cognate to 羆 (OC *pral, “brown bear”) (Zhang, 2019).


環

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (環):
* → Japanese: 環(かん) (kan)
* → Korean: 환(環) (hwan)
* → Vietnamese: hoàn (環)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡʷraːn): semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ).
Note similarities to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *hwaŋ (“to encircle; circular, fence”), whence Burmese ဝင်း (wang:, “enclosure, compound”).


rifle

→ Catalan: rifle

→ French: rifle

→ Japanese: ライフル (raifuru)

→ Korean: 라이플 (raipeul)

→ Portuguese: rifle

→ Spanish: rifle

Originally short for “rifled gun”, referring to the spiral grooves inside the barrel. From Middle English riflen (“to rob, plunder, search through”), from Old French rifler (“to lightly scratch, scrape off, plunder”), from Old High German riffilōn (compare German riffeln (“to score, make grooves in, ripple”), archaic Dutch rijfelen (“to scrape”), Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”)), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (compare Old Norse rífa (“to tear, break”)). More at rive.

cog

Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.

1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.

1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:

(weaponry) A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.

(military, usually in the plural, dated) A rifleman.

(weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.

កាំភ្លើងវែង

kampləəŋ vɛɛŋ


rifled

(firearms) Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.

rihlattu

having a spiral groove on the inside of a gun barrel


rifling

(military) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

(military) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.


的

From Old Japanese.
* May be derived from rare archaic verb いくう (ikuu, “to shoot (an arrow) at something”, archaic spelling いくふ).
: The ha element would presumably derive from the verb ending ふ (fu), which has a 未然形 (mizenkei, “incomplete form”) of ha. However, this is unlikely, as verb forms ending in -fu underwent the regular f- and h- > w- shift, which would result in a reading of *ikuwa rather than the correct ikuha.
* The above phonetic discrepancy suggests that ikuha may instead be a compound of iku + ha.
: The iku element probably derives from root component いく (iku) meaning “shooting [arrows]”, as found in いくう (ikuu) and also in 戦 (ikusa, “a battle”, original meaning “the shooting of arrows”). The iku element might be related to verb 射る (iru, “to shoot an arrow”), or obsolete verb 生く (iku, “to live; to make something live, to make something go”), likely cognate with 行く (iku, “to go”).
: The ha element is uncertain. It might be 端 (ha, “the edge or end of something”), from the sense “the end [of the arrow's flight]”.

的所

the location where an archery target is placed


的

From Old Japanese. Alteration of ikuha above. Compare the iku <> yuku alteration in the verb 行く (iku, yuku, “to go”).


盾

Pictogram (象形) — a shield (in the oracle bone script). Note that under the 𠂆 is not 直 - one less stroke here. See also 古, perhaps a differentiation of 盾.
; “shield”
; “dong”
; “guilder; gulden; rupiah”


TOC

(military, law enforcement) Initialism of tactical operations center.


MP

en-noun

MP (countable and uncountable, plural MPs)

MPs (plural)
M. P. (alternative)
M.P. (alternative)

military policeman
military policeman#English

(military) Initialism of military police or military policeman.

(military) Initialism of machine pistol.


ABM

ABM (countable and uncountable, plural ABMs)

anti-ballistic missile
anti-ballistic missile#English

(military, astronautics) Initialism of anti-ballistic missile.


矢

Pictogram (象形) – an arrow. More recognizable in older forms. Compare 畀 and 至. See also the bottom component of 睪 and the original versions of 弗 and 𢦏.
; arrow
; to swear, to vow

The way to Zhou was like a whetstone,
And straight as an arrow.

周道如砥，其直如矢。


矢

From Old Japanese. Found in the Kojiki of 712 CE, and in the Man'yōshū completed some time after 759 CE.

光陰矢の如し。

Shine and shadow, just like an arrow. → Time flies like an arrow.

大夫之弓上振起射都流矢乎後将見人者語継金

masurao no yuzue furiokoshi itsuru ya o nochi mimu hito wa kataritsugu gane


GB

(chemistry, military) Initialism of German agent B (US designation for the nerve gas sarin).


ASP

ammunition supply point
w:ammunition dump

(military) Initialism of ammunition supply point.


突

CJK compatibility ideographs
Kyūjitai
Shinjitai
kyūjitai

(martial arts) an attacking move in kendo, sumo, et al.; thrust, lunge


管

From Old Japanese 管 (kuda, “pipe, tube”).

(military) short for 管の笛 (kuda no fue, “a kind of small pipe or flute used for signalling during a battle, similar to a fife”)


箭

→ Vietnamese: tên

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔslens): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 前 (OC *zleːn).

Han compound

(archery, weaponry) arrow (Classifier: 支 m c mn)


EOD

(military, law enforcement) Initialism of explosive ordnance disposal.


紮

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsriːd): phonetic 札 (OC *sqriːd) + semantic 糸.

Han compound

(military) to be stationed; to encamp; to be quartered (of troops)


put out

en-verb

put out (third-person singular simple present puts out, present participle putting out, simple past and past participle put out)

puts out (present singular third-person)
putting out (participle present)
put out (participle past)
put out (past)

(transitive) To cause something to be out, particularly

(boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.


縱

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsloŋ, *ʔsloŋs): semantic 糸 + phonetic 從 (OC *zloŋ, *zloŋ, *zloŋs).

Han compound

(military) short for 縱隊／纵队 (zòngduì, “column corps”)


kata

From Japanese 型 (literally “pattern, model”).
In English use since the 1950s.

judo kata

About fifty kata, or "formal exercises," are practiced at the present time, some having been passed down from generation to generation, others having been developed fairly recently.

1979, Masatoshi Nakayama, Best Karate: Heian, Tekki, page 12:

Katas are a series of motions, such as punches, strikes, and kicks, arranged in a specific pattern. The pattern allows the motions to flow into one another. A student must learn a new kata to advance to each new belt level.

2006, Kelley MacAulay, Bobbie Kalman, Karate in Action, page 22:

When the competitor's name is called, she stands on the designated line, bows to the panel of judges, and announces the name of the kata she will perform.[…]She then performs the kata. When she is finished, her opponent performs her kata. At the end of the second kata, both return to the mat area to await the decision of the judging panel.

2009, Thomas W. Hanlon, The Sports Rules Book, Human Kinetics, page 161:

2010, Kenji Tokitsu, The Katas: The Meaning Behind the Movements:

(martial arts) Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.


splash

Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).

(wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.

Hits were observed, but again the poor functioning of VT ammunition hindered in effecting a splash.

2010, Robin L. Rielly, Kamikaze Attacks of World War II, page 267:

(military, slang) The shooting down of an aircraft over water.


splash

en-verb

splash (third-person singular simple present splashes, present participle splashing, simple past and past participle splashed)

splashes (present singular third-person)
splashing (participle present)
splashed (participle past)
splashed (past)

Planes were sighted at about 5000 yards, fire was opened at 4500 yards; the first plane was splashed about 1800 yards from the ship, the second was splashed about 3000 yards from the ship and rudder shifted to hard right.

2010, Robin L. Rielly, Kamikaze Attacks of World War II, page 234:

(military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.


ABC

weapon of mass destruction
weapon of mass destruction

(weaponry) Initialism of atomic, biological and chemical, the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction.


ABC

From Middle High German a. b. c., abecē; equivalent to A + B + C, the first three letters of the Latin and German alphabet.

Es gab dann immer einen Sirenenalarm im Camp und wir mussten unter ABC-Vollschutz (ABC: atomar, biologisch, chemisch) versuchen, in irgendeinen Bunker zu laufen.

2009, Christian Bernhardt, “Noch einmal ganz von vorne anfangen”, in Leah Wizelman, editor, Wenn der Krieg nicht endet. Schicksale von traumatisierten Soldaten und ihren Angehörigen, →ISBN, page 142:

Then there was always a siren alarm in camp and we had to run into a bunker wearing NBC protection (NBC: nuclear, biological, chemical).

In Abhängigkeit von der Art, den Eigenschaften und der Menge des freigewordenen ABC-Gefahrstoffes sind unterschiedliche taktische Einheiten zur Gefahrenabwehr erforderlich.

2013, Grundlagen des ABC-Einsatzes (Fachwissen Feuerwehr), 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 11:

Various tactical units are required for security depending on the type, characteristics and quantity of the hazardous NBC substance that has been released.

Das kann bis zu einem ABC-Krieg reichen.

2022, Rainer Uhlmann, Ukraine-Krieg. Tagebuch eines Fragenden, →ISBN, page 203:

(weaponry) initialism of atomar, biologisch und chemisch: NBC


ABC

The first letter of each term; atom, biologisk and kjemisk, borrowed from English atomic, biological and chemical.

weapons of mass destruction
weapon of mass destruction

(weaponry) initialism of atom-, biologisk and kjemisk: ("atomic, biological and chemical") the three main categories of weapons of mass destruction.


羽

From Old Japanese.
May be cognate with 葉 (ha, “leaf”).

(archery) when a bow is strung, the distance between the grip and the serving (nocking point) on the bowstring


脚

2004 September 8, Nobuhiro Watsuki, “第(だい)３４(さんじゅうよん)話(わ) Let’s(レッツ) お見(み)舞(ま)い [Chapter 34: Let’s Go for a Hospital Visit]”, in 武(ブ)装(ソウ)錬(レン)金(キン) [Armed Alchemy], volume 4, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

流星・ブラボー脚‼

(martial arts) used in the names of moves that involve kicking


loophole

loophole (third-person singular simple present loopholes, present participle loopholing, simple past and past participle loopholed)

loopholes (present singular third-person)
loopholing (participle present)
loopholed (participle past)
loopholed (past)
loop hole (alternative)

From Middle English loupe (“opening in a wall”) + hole, from a Germanic source. Compare Medieval Latin loupa, lobia and Middle Dutch lupen (“to watch”).

af

The lower windows were barricaded, and the whole building loopholed for musketry fire.

1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard:

The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses.

The Germans were loopholing it for defence.

1915, W. H. L. Watson, Adventures of a Despatch Rider:

(military, transitive) To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers


cuerpo

cuerpos (plural)
cuelpo (alternative obsolete pronunciation-spelling)

Inherited from Old Spanish cuerpo, from Latin corpus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. Doublet of the borrowing corpus.

(military, law enforcement) corps, force (e.g. army corps, police force)


no holds barred

a no holds barred match

(wrestling) Without restrictions on holds or what opponents may do.

ilman kiellettyjä otteita

in wrestling: without restrictions on holds or what opponents may do


cop

From Middle English cop, coppe, from Old English cop, copp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew-. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.

check cop

probably etymologically unrelated to above terms


rot

nl-noun

rot n or f (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)

rotten (plural)
rotje (diminutive neuter)


FM

en-noun

FM (countable and uncountable, plural FMs)

FMs (plural)
F.M. (alternative)
F. M. (alternative)

(countable, military) Initialism of field marshal.


ADP

arah dasar pengukuran
arah dasar pengukuran#Indonesian

(military) initialism of arah dasar pengukuran


division

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.


division

head

division c (singular definite divisionen, plural indefinite divisioner)

divisionen (definite singular)
divisioner (indefinite plural)
division (indefinite nominative singular)
divisionen (definite nominative singular)
divisioner (indefinite nominative plural)
divisionerne (definite nominative plural)
divisions (genitive indefinite singular)
divisionens (definite genitive singular)
divisioners (genitive indefinite plural)
divisionernes (definite genitive plural)


division

→ English: division

→ German: Division

→ Russian: дивизион (divizion)

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin divisiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”).


tank

tankok (plural)
tank (nominative singular)
tankok (nominative plural)
tankot (accusative singular)
tankokat (accusative plural)
tanknak (dative singular)
tankoknak (dative plural)
tankkal (instrumental singular)
tankokkal (instrumental plural)
tankért (causal-final singular)
tankokért (causal-final plural)
tankká (singular translative)
tankokká (plural translative)
tankig (singular terminative)
tankokig (plural terminative)
tankként (essive-formal singular)
tankokként (essive-formal plural)
tankban (inessive singular)
tankokban (inessive plural)
tankon (singular superessive)
tankokon (plural superessive)
tanknál (adessive singular)
tankoknál (adessive plural)
tankba (illative singular)
tankokba (illative plural)
tankra (singular sublative)
tankokra (plural sublative)
tankhoz (allative singular)
tankokhoz (allative plural)
tankból (elative singular)
tankokból (elative plural)
tankról (delative singular)
tankokról (delative plural)
tanktól (ablative singular)
tankoktól (ablative plural)
tanké (singular)
tankoké (plural)
tankéi (singular)
tankokéi (plural)
tankom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
tankjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
tankod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
tankjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tankja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
tankjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
tankunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
tankjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
tankotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
tankjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
tankjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
tankjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

(military) tank, armoured fighting vehicle (military fighting vehicle)


tank

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)

tanken (definite singular)
tanker (indefinite plural)
tankene (definite plural)

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle#English

(military, nonstandard since 2005) a tank (armoured fighting vehicle) (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tanks)


tank

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tankar, definite plural tankane)

tanken (definite singular)
tankar (indefinite plural)
tankane (definite plural)

(military, nonstandard since 2005) a tank (armoured fighting vehicle) ((pre-2005) alternative form of tanks)


tank

tank (nominative singular)
tanki (nominative plural)
tanku (genitive singular)
tanków (genitive plural)
tankowi (dative singular)
tankom (dative plural)
tank (accusative singular)
tanki (accusative plural)
tankiem (instrumental singular)
tankami (instrumental plural)
tanku (locative singular)
tankach (locative plural)
tanku (singular vocative)
tanki (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Russian та́нк (tánk), borrowed from English tank (or the English term was directly borrowed to Polish). First attested in 1922.

gąsienice tanków

lufy tanków

niemieckie tanki

radzieckie/ruskie/sowieckie tanki

rosyjskie/ruskie tanki

(military) tank (armoured fighting vehicle)


kimono

kimonowy (adjective)
kimono (nominative singular)
kimona (nominative plural)
kimona (genitive singular)
kimon (genitive plural)
kimonu (dative singular)
kimonom (dative plural)
kimono (accusative singular)
kimona (accusative plural)
kimonem (instrumental singular)
kimonami (instrumental plural)
kimonie (locative singular)
kimonach (locative plural)
kimono (singular vocative)
kimona (plural vocative)

(martial arts) kimono (sports outfit worn by people training in certain martial arts, consisting of pants and a blouse with a slit in the front, the parts of which are worn one over the other and tied rigidly at the waist with a belt)


袴

(historical, military): prior to World War II, the general term for trousers in the Imperial Japanese Army


ta

ta (canonical)
tâ (canonical)
ᜆ (Baybayin)

command of execution for commands involving weapons such as a rifle or a sword


STS

en-noun

STS (countable and uncountable, plural STSs)

special treatment steel
w:special treatment steel

(metallurgy, military, nautical, historical) Initialism of special treatment steel (a type of homogenous armor plate).


褌

→ English: fundoshi

[ɸɯ̟̃ndo̞ɕi]

越中褌

越中褌 えっちゅうふんどし

西洋褌

西洋褌 せいようふんどし

六尺褌

六尺褌 ろくしゃくふんどし

湯文字: a kind of loincloth wrap used while bathing

a similar wrap worn historically by women under a kimono

人の褌で相撲を取る

(sumo) a sumo wrestler's traditional apron


褌

(sumo) a sumo wrestler's belt, a mawashi


legend

legend (countable and uncountable, plural legends)

From Middle English legende, from Old French legende, from Medieval Latin legenda (“a legend, story, especially the lives of the saints”), from Latin legenda (“things which ought to be read”), from lego (“I read”).

legende

any person of extraordinary accomplishment

The legend displacement on the basis then in use was 48,000 tons, the corresponding standard displacement as defined by the Washington Treaty being 47,540 tons.

1929, Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Inc, page 304:

The legend and sketch designs were submitted to the Board on 27th March 1916 and, after examining a model and the drawings, the Sea Lords generally favoured proposal 'B'; the extra weight involved being acceptable.

1976, Alan Raven, John Roberts, British Battleships of World War Two: The Development and Technical History of the Royal Navy's Battleships and Battlecruisers from 1911 to 1946, page 63:

(naval) The design and specification of a vessel.


download

en-verb

download (third-person singular simple present downloads, present participle downloading, simple past and past participle downloaded)

downloads (present singular third-person)
downloading (participle present)
downloaded (participle past)
downloaded (past)
DL (alternative)
dl (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)

→ Danish: downloade

→ Dutch: downloaden

→ German: downloaden; herunterladen (calque)

desc

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Malay: muat turun (calque)

→ Maltese: ddawnlowdja

→ Thai: ดาวน์โหลด (daao-lòot)

From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.

(transitive, firearms) To load a gun (especially a muzzle-loader) with less propellant than its designed load.


delta

From Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), borrowed from a Phoenician word for "door", ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-. Doublet of dalet.
* (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
* (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ

(US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF operations wing, or an army regiment.


huh

Attested from circa 1600. Compare Dutch hè (“huh”).

Speech disfluency#"Huh" – the universal syllable

Shawn quickly turns around and punches the pale hand, yelling "Huh! Huh! Hi yah'! Huh! Get off me! Yeah!"

1993, Ashaki Boelter, The Nok, Bend, O.R.: Shakalot High Entertainment, published 2006, →ISBN, page 69:

He gets out of the chair, whips off his jacket, and starts closing in on the camera, punching rapidly as he moves. A left hook, a right jab. "Hey, I'm a boxer and a marine! So don't mess with me, man! Semper fi! Marine Corps! They better not mess with me! My critics better not mess with me, man, 'cause I'm gonna beat you up. Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh. Hmm, hmmm, hmm, hmmmm, heeeyah, huh, huh. Hmmm, yeah!"

1995 October 5, Neal Pollack, quoting David Nelson, “King of the Creature Feature”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, I.L.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-15:

Student A has both arms outstretched in a karate motion and shouts out "HUH". Student B receives the sound by putting both arms straight in the air and yelling "HUH". Students on either side of B give B a karate chop by miming a sideways karate chop — without any touching.

2014, Larry Swartz, Dramathemes: Classroom Literacy that Will Excite, Surprise, and Stimulate Learning, Markham, Ont.: Pembroke Publishers Limited, →ISBN, pages 130-131:

HUH-HUH, HI-YAH!

2023, Dwayne Reed, Simon B. Rhymin' Gets in the Game, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(martial arts) A kiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.


line

→ Scottish Gaelic: loidhne

From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).
Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.
The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.

lyn

path through two or more points, threadlike mark

lyn

single horizontal row of text on a screen, printed paper, etc.

linja

measure of length, the main division of an inch or its local equivalent

(especially military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.

A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.

(military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle.

(military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.

Thus, for example, in the line of Quarte, the direct thrust is parried by dropping the point under the adversary's blade and circling upwards, throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Tierce), and upon the direct thrust in the line of Tierce, by a similar action throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Quarte).

1861, George Chapman, Foil Practice, with a Review of the Art of Fencing, page 12:

(fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.

mstari

fencing: position in which the fencers hold their swords


tentacle

From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.

A joint RAF/Army staffed Air Support Control (ASC) headquarters was established at each army corps and each armoured division, linked to the forward brigades by a 'tentacle' equipped with two-way wireless telegraphy.

2013, Dr Ian Gooderson, Air Power at the Battlefront, page 26:

(UK, military, historical) An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.


NBC

NBCs (plural)
N.B.C. (alternative)
N. B. C. (alternative)

biological weapon
biological weapon#English

(weaponry) Abbreviation of nuclear weapon, biological weapon and chemical weapon.


NBC

N.B.C. (alternative)
N. B. C. (alternative)

(weaponry) Abbreviation of nuclear, biological, chemical.


NBC

(weaponry) initialism of nucléaire, bactériologique, chimique: NBC (“nuclear, biological, chemical”)


軍

/kʲun/ → /ɡun/
From Middle Chinese 軍 (MC kjun).

(historical, military) during the Zhou dynasty, an army of five 師 (shi, “divisions of 2500 soldiers”) totaling 12500 soldiers


class

en-noun

class (countable and uncountable, plural classes)

→ Assamese: ক্লাছ (klas)

desc

→ Bengali: ক্লাস (klaś), কেলাস (kelaś) — nonstandard

q

or from French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">classe</i>

→ Gulf Arabic: كلاس (klās) (or from French classe)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: क्लास (klās)

Urdu: کلاس

→ Japanese: クラス (kurasu)

→ Korean: 클래스 (keullaeseu)

→ Nepali: क्लास (klās)

→ Scottish Gaelic: clas

→ Thai: คลาส (kláas)

→ Yoruba: kíláàsì

From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis.

class action

class-action, class action lawsuit, class suit

(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

набор

military: persons subject to the same draft


連

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 辶 (“to walk”) + 車 (“chariot”) – man-drawn carriage.
According to Duan Yucai, 聯 /联 (lián) and 連 are two characters for a same word, with the former used in the Zhou dynasty and the latter in the Han dynasty.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjan (“equal; to place in a row; to align; row”); related to 聯 (OC *ɡ·ron) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

inh

He thought that life in a company made up of new recruits would be filled with exciting maneuvers, but he did not expect it to be a monotonous routine with boring training content.

Tā yǐwèi xīnbīng lián dōu shì “dāo guāng jiàn yǐng” “wǔ qiāng nòng bàng” de shēnghuó, méi xiǎngdào què shì sāndiǎnyīxiàn de gùdìng shēnghuó móshì hé kūzào fáwèi de xùnliàn nèiróng.

他以為新兵連都是“刀光劍影”“舞槍弄棒”的生活，沒想到卻是三點一線的固定生活模式和枯燥乏味的訓練內容。

他以为新兵连都是“刀光剑影”“舞枪弄棒”的生活，没想到却是三点一线的固定生活模式和枯燥乏味的训练内容。

(military) company (consisting of platoons (排) and forming part of a battalion (營))


flight

en-noun

flight (countable and uncountable, plural flights)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Proto-West Germanic *-þi
Proto-West Germanic *fluhti
Old English flyht
Middle English flight
English flight
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).

etymon

(US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.


seconde

(fencing) The second defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, with the hand held in a prone position and the tip of the sword below the level of the guard.


mike

From translingual Mike, representing the letter m, from English Mike.

We'll be there in one zero mikes [i.e. ten minutes].


appel

Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal.

(fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.


appel

nl-noun

appel n (plural appels, diminutive appelletje n)

appels (plural)
appelletje (diminutive neuter)
appèl (alternative)

Afrikaans: appèl

→ Caribbean Javanese: apèl

→ Indonesian: apèl

→ Papiamentu: apèl

From Middle Dutch appeel, from Old French apel.

(military) roll call (muster of troops at which names are read out, to see if all are present)


釦

(archery) metal loop at the nock point of a bow string


釵

From Middle Chinese 釵 (MC tsrhea). Compare modern Mandarin 釵／钗 (chāi, “hairpin; sai (weapon)”).
This character was originally used in Japanese to mean (ornamental) hairpin, and was read with a kun'yomi of kanzashi. The similarity in shape between a hairpin and the weapon called a sai later led to this character being used to refer to the weapon. In modern Japanese, this character is read primarily with its on'yomi of sai, and is used to refer to the weapon. The hairpin sense and kanzashi reading are more often spelled 簪.

(weaponry) a sai: a short blunt weapon with a wide guard, used mainly for defense against opponents armed with swords


鉈

From Old Japanese 鉈 (nata). Appears in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.
Possibly related to Old Japanese な (na, “blade, edge”).
Possibly cognate with Korean 낫 (nat), Korean 나대 (nadae) of similar meanings as Japanese 鉈 (nata).

(sumo) a technique of bending one's elbow and attacking an opponent's throat or chest with one's forearm (so called for the way the bent-elbow arm shape resembles certain varieties of nata woodworking tools)


AAA

en-noun

AAA (countable and uncountable, plural AAAs)

(military) Initialism of anti-aircraft artillery.


SM

SM (countable and uncountable, plural SMs)

(US, military) Abbreviation of standard missile.

(military) Initialism of standoff missile.


rd

(knitting, firearms) Abbreviation of round.


CC

CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)

(military) Abbreviation of cruiser, a type of warship.

At the helm of Company Eleven was Chief Quartermaster Pritchard. Officially he was known as the Company Commander (CC) and had been assigned to Camp Moffett for the purpose of being our CC. […] Successful CC's often had their detractors in the form ofjealous and less successful CC's.

2013, David Banagis, Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Sailor's Story, Bloomington, IN: Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 9:

(military) Initialism of company commander.

(US, military, historical) The US Navy hull classification symbol for a battlecruiser; the only such ships authorized by Congress were of the Lexington-class, which were cancelled under the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty with two being converted to aircraft carriers.


閂

ja-noun

閂(かんぬき) • (kannuki) ^(←くわんぬき (kwannuki)?)

閂 (canonical)
kannuki (romanization)
kwannuki (romanization)
くわんぬき (hiragana historical)

[kã̠nːɯ̟kʲi]

/kʷan no ki/ → /kʷanːoki/ → /kʷanːuki/ → /kanːuki/
Shift from 貫の木 (kan no ki, literally “1-kan (3.75-kilogram/8.267-pound) wood”) or 関の木 (kan no ki, literally “barrier-wood”), possibly influenced by 貫き (nuki, “wooden beam used in joinery”).

(sumo) a grip in which one wrestler wraps his arms around both of his opponent’s arms and squeezes them together to maneuver the opponent for a kimedashi or kimetaoshi, or to weaken the opponent’s grip on the mawashi; a type of armbar


bus

buses (plural)
busses (plural)
'bus (alternative archaic)

→ Arabic: بَاص (bāṣ)

⇒ Burmese: ဘတ်စ်ကား (bhatcka:)

→ Cantonese: 巴士

→ Mandarin: 巴士 (bāshì)

→ German: Bus m

→ Hindi: बस (bas)

→ Irish: bus

desctree

→ Japanese: バス (basu)
→ Hakka: 巴士 (pa-sṳ́)
→ Hokkien: 巴士 (bá-suh)
→ Kavalan: basu
→ Sakizaya: basu

→ Korean: 버스 (beoseu)

→ Kurtöp: བས (bas)

→ Malay: bas

→ Pashto: بس

⇒ Sanskrit: बसयान (basayāna)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bus

→ Thai: บัส (bát)

→ Tibetan: འབའ་སེ ('ba' se)

→ Urdu: بس

→ Welsh: bws

Clipping of omnibus. Superseded earlier 'bus, where the apostrophe indicated a clipping. The shift in spelling likely reflects the fact that modern speakers no longer perceive this term as a clipping. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.

(military slang, 1910s–1940s) An aeroplane.


陣

Derivation from 敶, itself derived from an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 東 (“sack?”) + 東 + 攴; later, one 東 was abbreviated, and a 阜 added on the left.

Han compound

(military) column, row or file of troops


隊

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l'uːds): semantic 阜 + phonetic 㒸 (suì).

Han compound

軍隊／军队 ― jūnduì ― army

自衛隊／自卫队


雷

Ancient simplification of 靁, which was a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ruːl): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 畾 (OC *ruːl).
The Northern Min initial s- may be due to the loss of a pre-initial which might have been a velar considering dialect forms in Henan, Hebei and Shanxi, e.g. Taiyuan Jin 忽雷 (hueh4 lui1) (Schuessler, 2007).
Perhaps from Sino-Tibetan. Compare Mizo râwl (“voice; cry (of an animal); sound”), Tibetan ཁྲོལ (khrol).
* (spoiler): Clipping of 捏他八雷 (niētābāléi), from Japanese ネタバレ (netabare).
* (loyalty): by homophony of 二 (ji⁶, “two”) and 義 /义 (ji⁶, “spirit of loyalty”).
* (to lay off): from Phono-semantic matching of English lay off.

psm

畾
𡈶
𩇓
𤴐
𩂩
𤳳
䨓
𩄣
靁
㗊
𤴑

魚雷／鱼雷

手雷

雷區／雷区 ― léiqū ― minefield

排雷 ― páiléi ― to demine

(military, weaponry, in compounds) explosive device; mine

雲

basic weather words shared by most dialects


鞆

(archery) A bracer; an arm protector worn by archers.


accelerograph

(military) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.


PC

(US, navy) Initialism of Coastal Patrol.


acción

→ Tagalog: aksiyon

Borrowed from Latin āctiōnem, from agere.


LES

en-noun

LES (countable and uncountable, plural LESs)

Leave and Earnings Statement
w:Leave and Earnings Statement

(military, US) Initialism of Leave and Earnings Statement.


bolt

→ Irish: bolta

→ Japanese: ボルト (boruto)

→ Maltese: bolt

desctree

→ Russian: болт (bolt)
→ Azerbaijani: bolt
→ Ingrian: boltta

→ Scottish Gaelic: bolta

From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.

der

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.


sole

→ Hebrew: סוֹל (sol)

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.
Compare typologically Russian по́чва (póčva) akin to подо́шва (podóšva).

cog

The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.


well

From Middle English welle, from Old English wielle (“well”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallijā, from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ (“well, swirl, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn; wind; roll”).
Cognate with West Frisian wel (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), German Low German Well (“well”), German Welle (“wave”), Danish væld (“well; spring”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vella (“boiling; bubbling; eruption”).

cog

wool (interjection or unstressed, some accents)

the jug goes to the well until it breaks

the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry

(military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.

potero

military: hole or excavation in the earth

shaft

excavation in the earth, from which run branches or galleries


spade

spade (nominative singular)
spadet (nominative plural)
spade (accusative nominative singular)
spadet (accusative nominative plural)
spaden (accusative genitive singular)
spadet (accusative genitive plural)
spaden (genitive singular)
spadejen (genitive plural)
spadein (genitive plural rare)
spadea (partitive singular)
spadeja (partitive plural)
spadessa (inessive singular)
spadeissa (inessive plural)
spadesta (elative singular)
spadeista (elative plural)
spadeen (illative singular)
spadeihin (illative plural)
spadella (adessive singular)
spadeilla (adessive plural)
spadelta (ablative singular)
spadeilta (ablative plural)
spadelle (allative singular)
spadeille (allative plural)
spadena (essive singular)
spadeina (essive plural)
spadeksi (singular translative)
spadeiksi (plural translative)
spadetta (abessive singular)
spadeitta (abessive plural)
spadein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
spadeni (nominative singular)
spadeni (nominative plural)
spadeni (accusative nominative singular)
spadeni (accusative nominative plural)
spadeni (accusative genitive singular)
spadeni (accusative genitive plural)
spadeni (genitive singular)
spadejeni (genitive plural)
spadeini (genitive plural rare)
spadeani (partitive singular)
spadejani (partitive plural)
spadessani (inessive singular)
spadeissani (inessive plural)
spadestani (elative singular)
spadeistani (elative plural)
spadeeni (illative singular)
spadeihini (illative plural)
spadellani (adessive singular)
spadeillani (adessive plural)
spadeltani (ablative singular)
spadeiltani (ablative plural)
spadelleni (allative singular)
spadeilleni (allative plural)
spadenani (essive singular)
spadeinani (essive plural)
spadekseni (singular translative)
spadeikseni (plural translative)
spadettani (abessive singular)
spadeittani (abessive plural)
spadeineni (comitative plural)
spadesi (nominative singular)
spadesi (nominative plural)
spadesi (accusative nominative singular)
spadesi (accusative nominative plural)
spadesi (accusative genitive singular)
spadesi (accusative genitive plural)
spadesi (genitive singular)
spadejesi (genitive plural)
spadeisi (genitive plural rare)
spadeasi (partitive singular)
spadejasi (partitive plural)
spadessasi (inessive singular)
spadeissasi (inessive plural)
spadestasi (elative singular)
spadeistasi (elative plural)
spadeesi (illative singular)
spadeihisi (illative plural)
spadellasi (adessive singular)
spadeillasi (adessive plural)
spadeltasi (ablative singular)
spadeiltasi (ablative plural)
spadellesi (allative singular)
spadeillesi (allative plural)
spadenasi (essive singular)
spadeinasi (essive plural)
spadeksesi (singular translative)
spadeiksesi (plural translative)
spadettasi (abessive singular)
spadeittasi (abessive plural)
spadeinesi (comitative plural)
spademme (nominative singular)
spademme (nominative plural)
spademme (accusative nominative singular)
spademme (accusative nominative plural)
spademme (accusative genitive singular)
spademme (accusative genitive plural)
spademme (genitive singular)
spadejemme (genitive plural)
spadeimme (genitive plural rare)
spadeamme (partitive singular)
spadejamme (partitive plural)
spadessamme (inessive singular)
spadeissamme (inessive plural)
spadestamme (elative singular)
spadeistamme (elative plural)
spadeemme (illative singular)
spadeihimme (illative plural)
spadellamme (adessive singular)
spadeillamme (adessive plural)
spadeltamme (ablative singular)
spadeiltamme (ablative plural)
spadellemme (allative singular)
spadeillemme (allative plural)
spadenamme (essive singular)
spadeinamme (essive plural)
spadeksemme (singular translative)
spadeiksemme (plural translative)
spadettamme (abessive singular)
spadeittamme (abessive plural)
spadeinemme (comitative plural)
spadenne (nominative singular)
spadenne (nominative plural)
spadenne (accusative nominative singular)
spadenne (accusative nominative plural)
spadenne (accusative genitive singular)
spadenne (accusative genitive plural)
spadenne (genitive singular)
spadejenne (genitive plural)
spadeinne (genitive plural rare)
spadeanne (partitive singular)
spadejanne (partitive plural)
spadessanne (inessive singular)
spadeissanne (inessive plural)
spadestanne (elative singular)
spadeistanne (elative plural)
spadeenne (illative singular)
spadeihinne (illative plural)
spadellanne (adessive singular)
spadeillanne (adessive plural)
spadeltanne (ablative singular)
spadeiltanne (ablative plural)
spadellenne (allative singular)
spadeillenne (allative plural)
spadenanne (essive singular)
spadeinanne (essive plural)
spadeksenne (singular translative)
spadeiksenne (plural translative)
spadettanne (abessive singular)
spadeittanne (abessive plural)
spadeinenne (comitative plural)
spadensa (nominative singular)
spadensa (nominative plural)
spadensa (accusative nominative singular)
spadensa (accusative nominative plural)
spadensa (accusative genitive singular)
spadensa (accusative genitive plural)
spadensa (genitive singular)
spadejensa (genitive plural)
spadeinsa (genitive plural rare)
spadeaan (partitive singular)
spadeansa (partitive singular)
spadejaan (partitive plural)
spadejansa (partitive plural)
spadessaan (inessive singular)
spadessansa (inessive singular)
spadeissaan (inessive plural)
spadeissansa (inessive plural)
spadestaan (elative singular)
spadestansa (elative singular)
spadeistaan (elative plural)
spadeistansa (elative plural)
spadeensa (illative singular)
spadeihinsa (illative plural)
spadellaan (adessive singular)
spadellansa (adessive singular)
spadeillaan (adessive plural)
spadeillansa (adessive plural)
spadeltaan (ablative singular)
spadeltansa (ablative singular)
spadeiltaan (ablative plural)
spadeiltansa (ablative plural)
spadelleen (allative singular)
spadellensa (allative singular)
spadeilleen (allative plural)
spadeillensa (allative plural)
spadenaan (essive singular)
spadenansa (essive singular)
spadeinaan (essive plural)
spadeinansa (essive plural)
spadekseen (singular translative)
spadeksensa (singular translative)
spadeikseen (plural translative)
spadeiksensa (plural translative)
spadettaan (abessive singular)
spadettansa (abessive singular)
spadeittaan (abessive plural)
spadeittansa (abessive plural)
spadeineen (comitative plural)
spadeinensa (comitative plural)

Possibly from pata (“pot”) (perhaps through English spade, since spades (the card suit) are also called pata in Finnish).


hook

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.

American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times.

2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport:

(boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc

(Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.


strafe

en-verb

strafe (third-person singular simple present strafes, present participle strafing, simple past and past participle strafed)

strafes (present singular third-person)
strafing (participle present)
strafed (participle past)
strafed (past)

From German strafe (“punish”) (a conjugated form of strafen), from phrases like Gott strafe England (“God punish England”) which the British saw during the First World War.

These should be especially useful against low-flying planes that "strafe" infantry and transport columns with machine-gun fire and light bombs.

1929, Frank Thone, “‘Thinking Machine’ Aims Guns”, in The Science News-Letter, volume 16, number 437, pages 107-09:

(transitive, military, aviation) To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.

Laffey, fresh off from strafing Hiei, ran straight into a quarter of the Japanese navy's remaining destroyers, and, along with Kirishima, between gunfire and another successful Type 93 torpedo strike that tore off the ship's stern, the hapless destroyer was left drifting, ablaze, and would eventually sink.

2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 20:16 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17:

(transitive, military, by extension) To rake (a target) with rapid or automatic gunfire.

You will get an officer sometimes fu'l of shout and swank, an' 'e 'll put 'em through it, an' strafe 'em, an' walk off parade feelin' that 'e 'as put the fear o' God into 'em.

1933, Thomas Clement Lonergan, “Private 19022”, in The Military Engineer, volume 23, number 132, page 582:

(transitive, military, figurative) To reprimand severely.


sweat

en-noun

sweat (usually uncountable, plural sweats)

Sranan Tongo: sweti

Torres Strait Creole: swet

From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.

inh

(British, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).


steam

en-noun

steam (usually uncountable, plural steams)

From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).

der

(fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.


recycle

en-verb

recycle (third-person singular simple present recycles, present participle recycling, simple past and past participle recycled)

recycles (present singular third-person)
recycling (participle present)
recycled (participle past)
recycled (past)

→ Dutch: recyclen

→ German: recyceln, recyclen

[ˌɹiːˈsaɪkɫ̩]

/ˌɹɪˈsaɪkəl/

[ˌɹɪ̝ˈsaɪkɫ̩]

[ɹɪˈsəi̯k(ə)ɫ]

Recruits cannot fail this portion of their training and become a Marine. Anyone who fails may be “recycled” through training up to three more times to try again, but will be sent home if success in this program is not achieved.

2006, Barbara Schading, Richard Schading, A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military, page 102:

(US, military, transitive) To put (a person) through a course of training again.


friendly

en-adj

friendly (comparative friendlier or more friendly, superlative friendliest or most friendly)

friendlier (comparative)
more friendly (comparative)
friendliest (superlative)
most friendly (superlative)

From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”).

The soldier was killed by friendly fire.

It is clear that the firing of very heavy guns, or the enemy's fire in return, would very seriously interfere with an abbatis, or anything of that kind, and it will only be something of the lightest character, or something that is placed at a considerable distance from the friendly fire, the fire of the gun itself, that would remain.

1867 June 3, Jasper Selwyn, “Further Particulars Regarding Moncrieff's Protected Barbette System”, in Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, volume XI, number XLIV, page 256:

The slaughter of one's own troops by being fired into by their friends in rear. We are very much concerned over the question of avoiding loss from the enemy's bullets while passing through the danger zone, but what have we done to avoid our bravest fellows, the survival of the fittest, those who have gotten to the front and have held on to hard-won positions—what have we done to avoid their being shot to pieces by friendly fire? Absolutely nothing that we have ever heard of—and yet this is one of the most serious problems that confronts the leader of troops. Courage before the enemy will quail before a fire from the rear.

1910, P.E.T., “The Franco-German War”, in Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, volume XLVI, number CLXV, page 552:

(usually military) Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports.

прия́телски

pertaining to friendlies in the conflict sense


pop

en-noun

pop (countable and uncountable, plural pops)

From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

cog

(professional wrestling slang) A (usually very) loud audience reaction.


bow

From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Cognate with West Frisian bôge, Dutch boog, German Bogen, Swedish båge.

strykstok

rod used for playing stringed instruments

Bows come in a variety of different shapes, sizes and cultures, and what is true of one, is not necessarily true of another, so we're gonna be stereotyping here, but, in general, a bow is a way of launching a pointy stick at somebody that you don't like.

2024 November 28, blumineck, “Fantasy vs Reality: 5 weapons that fantasy gets wrong!”, in youtube.com, retrieved 2025-05-07:

(archery) A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.


armor

en-noun

armor (countable and uncountable, plural armors)

armors (plural)
armour (alternative Australia British Canada)

From Middle English armure, armour, armor, armeure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman armure and Old French armeüre, from Latin armātūra. Doublet of armature and armure. By surface analysis, arm (“to cover or furnish”) + -or (suffix forming agent nouns or nouns of quality, state, or condition).

surf

-or<pos:suffix forming agent nouns or nouns of quality, state, or condition>

Good work, Chief. Link up with our armor on the far side of the wall.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Justis Bolding), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:

armoured fighting vehicles
armoured fighting vehicles

(military, uncountable) A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.


fireball

/ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔl/

Chelyabinsk meteor
Nevada Test Site
Operation Upshot–Knothole

The noun is derived from fire (noun) + ball (noun). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

tulipallo

bag or ball filled with combustible material; (heraldry) charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell

[T]he ſlingers and archers together, vvith others alſo tumbling dovvne huge ſtones, vvith firebrands and fireballs, ſet them further off.

1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, “[The XXIIII. Booke.] Chapter VII. The Most Strong Assault of the Said Citie. The Painefull Toyle, Industrie, and Fortitude, as well of the Besiegers as Besieged. At Length by Undermining the Walls are Overthrowne..”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC, pages 249–250:

(weaponry, historical) A bag or ball filled with combustible material which is thrown as a weapon or to set something alight.

(heraldry) A charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell with flames emitted from the top, or sometimes from the top, bottom, and on either side.


gash

From French gâcher (“to waste, to mess up”) or gâchis (“waste, a mess”), likely borrowed into English by ships' crews in the 19th century. Became increasingly vulgar by association with Etymology 1.

"All gash kit? There won't be no trouble with the books?"

1987, Simon Raven, The Sabre Squadron: A Novel, →ISBN:

(slang, dated, UK, chiefly military) Spare, extra.


staff

en-noun

staff (countable and uncountable, plural staffs or staves)

Token (railway signalling)#Staff and ticket

→ French: staff

→ Italian: staff

→ Japanese: スタッフ (sutaffu)

→ Korean: 스태프 (seutaepeu)

→ Malay: staf

desc

→ Portuguese: stafe, staff, estafe (Brazil)

→ Spanish: staff

From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stab, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav.
Sense of "group of military officers that assists a commander" and similar meanings, attested from 1702, is influenced by or is even from German Stab.

inh

At the head of that division which had Westminster Bridge for its approach to the scene of action, Lord George Gordon took his post; with Gashford at his right hand, and sundry ruffians, of most unpromising appearance, forming a kind of staff about him.

1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 49.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 217:

(military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.


vodka

en-noun

vodka (countable and uncountable, plural vodkas)

vodkas (plural)
vodki (alternative colloquial nonstandard)
vodky (alternative colloquial nonstandard)

→ Cebuano: bodka

→ Welsh: fodca

From Russian во́дка (vódka), from вода́ (vodá, “water”) + -ка (-ka, “-let: forming diminutives”). The archaic Russian name for vodka was хле́бное вино́ (xlébnoje vinó, “grain wine”); V. Pokhlyobkin's research suggests the present name derived from expressions concerning the dilution of the initial pure distilled spirit such as "vodka of grain wine".
Cognates include Sanskrit उदक (udaka), Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) → English hydro-, English whisky and English water.

(countable, military slang, ethnic slur) A Russian.

(uncountable, military slang) Russian language.


sloop

→ Bengali: সুলুপ (śulup)

→ Catalan: sloop

→ Czech: šalupa

→ Danish: slup

→ Estonian: luup

→ Faroese: slupp

→ Finnish: sluuppi

→ French: sloop

→ German: Sloop, Slup, Schlup

→ Icelandic: slúppa

→ Italian: sloop

→ Norwegian: slupp

→ Polish: slup

→ Serbo-Croatian: слуп (slup)

→ Slovene: šalupa

→ Swedish: slup

→ Thai: สลุบ (sà-lùp)

Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.

(military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.

(military) A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.


mast

From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”).
Cognate with Dutch mast, German Mast, and via Indo-European with Latin mālus, Russian мост (most, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.

der

(naval) A non-judicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines

(firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.

(slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.


armistice

From Late Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”) + sistēre (from sistō (“to halt, stand still”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand up”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The word is cognate with French armistice, Italian armistizio, Portuguese armistício, Spanish armisticio.

135. An armistice is the cessation of active hostilities for a period agreed upon between belligerents. It must be agreed upon in writing, and duly ratified by the highest authorities of the contending parties.
 136. If an armistice be declared, without conditions, it extends no further than to require a total cessation of hostilities, along the front of both belligerents.

1863 April 24, Francis Lieber, “Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field [General Order No. 100]”, in General Orders Affecting the Volunteer Force (Adjutant General’s Office; 1863), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1864, →OCLC, section VIII (Armistice—Capitulation), page 83:

It has also become routine to interrupt wars in more lasting fashion by imposing armistices. Again, unless directly followed by successful peace negotiations, armistices perpetuate the state of war indefinitely because they shield the weaker side from the consequences of refusing the concessions needed for peace. […] Armistices in themselves are not way stations to peace but rather frozen wars.

2002, Edward N[icolae] Luttwak, “The Coming Together of Opposites”, in Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, revised and enlarged edition, Cambridge, Mass., London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, published 2003 (2nd printing), →ISBN, part I (The Logic of Strategy), pages 59–60:

(countable, military) A (short) cessation of combat.

هُدْنَة

(short) cessation of combat — see also ceasefire, truce

The Fifth Volume of this Collection makes its appearance at the moſt eventful period of the war—it includes, therefore, matter of the higheſt importance, and contains all the official documents reſpecting the late Negotiation—the war between this country and Spain, the progreſs of the French arms in Italy and Germany—the armiſtices and treaties concluded with the German and Italian powers— […]

1797, “Preface”, in John Debrett, compiler, A Collection of State Papers, Relative to the War against France now Carrying on by Great Britain and the Several Other European Powers; […], volume V, London: Printed for J[ohn] Debrett, […], →OCLC:

The government of Great-Britain lost no time after the war was known, in making to our cabinet proposals for an armistice. Those proposals were like all propositions between equal states, perfectly reciprocal. They require of us to suspend hostilities only, in consideration of suspending hostilities on their part. They are silent as to impressments—and would any person inquire why? It may be answered, that impressments had never been presented to Great-Britain as in themselves the cause of war— […]

1813, [John Lowell Jr.], “No. IV. The Several Proposals for an Armistice Considered.”, in Perpetual War, the Policy of Mr. Madison. […], Boston, Mass.: Printed by C[hester] Stebbins, →OCLC, page 17:

Twice during the last quarter of a century the same railway vehicle has provided the scene of the signature of an armistice between Germany and France, and this famous vehicle is at present in Berlin, where it was placed on public exhibition in the Lustgarten on March 23.

1941 July, “The Armistice Coach”, in Railway Magazine, page 316:

The day armistice was signed [chapter title] […] At five o'clock on the morning of 11 November 1918, a group of high-ranking German politicians and military officers entered a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne. They were met by delegates from the countries with which they had been at war. Three days earlier the French, British and Americans had prepared an armistice document which they demanded the Germans accept within three days. Inside the carriage the Germans signed the surrender document put before them. The document signalled that the war would stop in six hours' time, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.

2003, John Malam, “The Day Armistice was Signed”, in Mary-Jane Wilkins, editor, 11 November 1918: The World War I Armistice (Dates with History), London: CherrytreeBooks, Evans Brothers, →ISBN, pages 12–13:

(countable, military) A formal agreement, especially between nations, to end combat.


chop

en-noun

chop (countable and uncountable, plural chops)

→ Japanese: チョップ

From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic, or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.

cog

A karate chop.

(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.


scarecrow

scarecrows (plural)
scare-crow (alternative)
skarcrow (alternative)

/ˈskɛɚˌkɹoʊ/

The noun is derived from scare (“to frighten, startle, terrify”) + crow (“bird of the genus Corvus”). The word displaced other terms such as bogle (now dialectal, dated), sewel or shewel, and shoy-hoy (perhaps imitative of the cry of crows).
The verb is derived from the noun.

compound

(military, World War II, historical) Military equipment or tactics used to scare and deter rather than cause actual damage.

pelottelutaktiikka

military equipment or tactics used to scare and deter rather than cause actual damage


shit on a shingle

(US, military, slang, vulgar) Creamed chipped beef on toast.


belt

→ Afrikaans: belt

→ Assamese: বেল্ট (belto)

→ Bengali: বেল্ট (belṭo)

→ Dutch: belt

→ Hindi: बेल्ट (belṭ)

→ Irish: beilt

→ Japanese: ベルト (beruto)

→ Odia: ବେଲ୍ଟ୍ (belṭ)

→ Urdu: بیلٹ (belṭ)

→ Welsh: belt

From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).

cog

The battleship was protected by a twelve-inch belt just above the waterline.

(military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.

(weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.


discharge

en-verb

discharge (third-person singular simple present discharges, present participle discharging, simple past and past participle discharged)

discharges (present singular third-person)
discharging (participle present)
discharged (participle past)
discharged (past)

/dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/

/ˈdɪstʃɑːdʒ/

/dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/

/ˈdɪstʃɑɹdʒ/

-ɪstʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ

From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarricāre (“unload”). By surface analysis, dis- + charge.

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

(military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.

уволнявам

military: to release (a member of the armed forces) from service


discharge

en-noun

discharge (countable and uncountable, plural discharges)

/dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/

/ˈdɪstʃɑːdʒ/

/dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/

/ˈdɪstʃɑɹdʒ/

-ɪstʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ

career transition after discharge

(military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.


operation

operation (countable and uncountable, plural operations)

→ Japanese: オペレーション (operēshon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: opairèisean

/ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

/ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

From Middle French operation, from Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate + -ion.

عَمَلِيَّة

procedure for generating a value from one or more other values

(military, countable) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).


operation

operation (indefinite nominative singular)
operations (genitive indefinite singular)
operationen (definite nominative singular)
operationens (definite genitive singular)
operationer (indefinite nominative plural)
operationers (genitive indefinite plural)
operationerna (definite nominative plural)
operationernas (definite genitive plural)


BDA

(military) Initialism of bomb damage assessment.


standoff

stand off (alternative)
stand-off (alternative)

a standoff bomb, missile, or weapon

(military) For use at a distance sufficient from the target to allow defensive fire to be evaded.


heat

heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)

From Middle English hete, from Old English hǣtu, from Proto-West Germanic *haitī, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“heat; hot”). Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heizī (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).

op hitte

condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile

(professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.