Where does “jadarmiya” come from?
jadarmiya (Tarifit) comes from Moroccan Arabic جدرمية, from Moroccan Arabic جدرمي, from French gendarme, from French gendarmes, from French gens, from French gents, from Old French gent, from Latin genitus — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
jadarmiya (Tarifit): gendarmerie
Definitions
- gendarmerie
Ancestry of “jadarmiya”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moroccan Arabic | جدرمية | gendarmerie |
| 2 | Moroccan Arabic | جدرمي | gendarme |
| 3 | French | gendarme | A member of the gendarmerie, a military body... |
| 4 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 5 | French | gens | set of people |
| 6 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 7 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 8 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 9 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 11 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |