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.
eş: arme, armée roulante, force, force navale, force terrestre, force d’intervention
köken: Inherited from Middle French armee, from the feminine past participle of the verb armer; first attested in French circa 1370 (except in Anglo-Norman), borrowed through Anglo-Norman from Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), the neuter plural form of the past participle of Latin armō (“to arm”), from arma (“arms, weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er-…
aile: armée de l'air, armée de l'espace, armée de mer, armée de terre
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.
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)