Where does “جدرمية” come from?
جدرمية (Moroccan Arabic) comes from Moroccan Arabic جدرمي, from French gendarme, from French gendarmes, from French gens, from French gents, from Old French gent, from Latin genitus, from Latin gignere — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
جدرمية (Moroccan Arabic): gendarmerie
Definitions
- gendarmerie
Ancestry of “جدرمية”, step by step
جدرمية traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Moroccan Arabic جدرمي
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moroccan Arabic | جدرمي | gendarme |
| 2 | French | gendarme | A member of the gendarmerie, a military body... |
| 3 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 4 | French | gens | set of people |
| 5 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 6 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 7 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 8 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 10 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |
via Arabic ـة
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arabic | ـة | — |