köken: Probably from Middle French colonel, from Italian colonnello, or alternatively from Old Occitan coronel, from a diminutive of Latin columna, becoming influenced by corona.
captain (person in command of a ship) · captain (military officer) · Amerindian or Maroon tribal village chief
çekim: çoğul kapiteins
eş: ritmeester
köken: From Middle Dutch capitein, from Old French capitaine, from Medieval Latin capitāneus.
aile: fregatkapitein, geen twee kapiteins op één schip, havenkapitein, hoofdkapitein, kaperkapitein, kapitein-adjudant, kapitein-Chinees, kapitein-commandant, kapitein-generaal, kapitein-luitenant
captain (army officer rank) · A term of address for someone
çekim: çoğul capitães
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese capitan, capitam, from Genoese Ligurian capitan, from Late Latin capitānus, from capitāneus, or from Latin capitālis.
aile: capitão de corveta, capitão de fragata, capitão de mar e guerra, capitão do mato, capitão-do-mato
大 (“grand”) + 佐 (“assistant”), likely modeled after 大将 (taishō, “general”). See 佐官 (sakan, “field officer”) for more. Compare North Korean 대좌 (daejwa) and Vietnamese đại tá (“senior colonel/captain”), North Korean 상좌 (sangjwa) and Vietnamese thượng tá (“army colonel; naval captain”), South Korean 대령 (daeryeong, “army colonel; naval captain”), and mainland Mandarin 大校 (dàxiào, “senior…