army (large tactical contingent consisting of several divisions) · military, a country’s armed forces as a whole; particularly of countries where a cognate term is commonly used in this sense, e.g. France · army, ground forces; now only of countries where a cognate term is commonly used in this sense, e.g. the U.S.
çekim: çoğul Armeen · tamlayan Armeen
eş: Landstreitkraft, Streitkräfte, Militär
köken: Early 16th century, borrowed from Middle French armee. Compare Modern French armée, English army.
köken: A false back-formation introduced during the Reza Shah regime's Persianization program, from ارتشدار (artešdâr, “soldier”). Erroneously analyzed as a compound word made from two parts with the latter component as ـدار (-dâr, “haver”), the solecism was nonetheless officially approved.Displaced Persian قشون anddisplaced Persian اردو (ordu), Mongolic and Turkic borrowings.
army, armed forces · form (habitation of a hare) · bed, crib
çekim: çoğul legers
köken: From Middle Dutch leger, from Old Dutch *leger, from Proto-West Germanic *legr, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager. Cognate to English lair.
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στρατιωτικός (stratiōtikós), from στρατιώτης (stratiṓtēs) + -ικός (-ikós), with semantic loan from French militaire.
army (large, highly organised military force concerned mainly with ground operations, or the entire branch thereof) · army (largest operational military unit; number of divisions or corps of a given type of troops under common command) · army (part of the armed forces in the area of war)
köken: Borrowed from a descendant of Medieval Latin armata, likely through Venetan armada; compare Spanish armada, Italian armata, French armée, etc. Compare also Swedish armáda, Slovene armada, Polish armia.