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