# chariot
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English chariot, from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”). Displaced native Old English hrædwæġn (literally “fast wagon”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæɹɪət/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæɹiət/, /ˈt͡ʃɛɹiət/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: char‧i‧ot

### Noun

chariot (plural chariots)
* A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.
    Synonym: (dated) car
* A light (four-wheeled) carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes.
* (xiangqi) The rook piece.

#### Hyponyms

* (Roman, 2-horse): biga
* (Roman, 3-horse): triga
* (Roman, 4-horse): quadriga

#### Derived terms

* charioter
* chariotlike
* chariotry
* scythed chariot
* unchariot
* uncharioted
* your chariot awaits

#### Related terms

* aurigal
* charret
* charrette
* (driver): charioteer

#### Translations

Arabic: عَرَبَة f (ʕaraba)
Armenian: մարտակառք (hy) (martakaṙkʻ)
Assamese: ৰথ (roth)
Avestan: 𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬀 (raθa)
Azerbaijani: araba (az)
Basque: guda-gurdi
Belarusian: калясні́ца f (kaljasníca)
Bengali: রথ (bn) (roth)
Bulgarian: колесни́ца (bg) f (kolesníca)
Burmese: ရထား (my) (ra.hta:)
Catalan: carro (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雙輪戰車 / 双轮战车 (shuāng lún zhànchē), 戰車 / 战车 (zh) (zhànchē), 馬戰車 / 马战车 (mǎzhànchē), 馬車 / 马车 (zh) (mǎchē)
Coptic: ⲃⲣϭⲟⲟⲩⲧ f (brcoout), ϩⲁⲣⲙⲁ (harma)
Czech: válečný vůz m, vůz (cs) m
Danish: stridsvogn c
Dutch: strijdwagen (nl) m
Egyptian: (mrkbt), (wrryt)
Esperanto: armea ĉaro
Finnish: sotavaunut pl
French: char (fr) m (de guerre), charriot (fr) m
Galician: biga f
Georgian: ეტლი (eṭli)
German: Streitwagen (de) m
Greek: άρμα (el) f (árma)
Ancient: ἅρμα f (hárma), δίφρος m (díphros), (covered) λαμπήνη f (lampḗnē), ὄχος m (ókhos), ὄχεα n pl (ókhea)
Hebrew: מֶרְכָּבָה (he) f (merkavá)
Hindi: रथ (hi) m (rath)
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Ido: charo (io)
Indonesian: cikar (id)
Irish: carbad m
Italian: biga (it) f
Japanese: 戦車 (ja) (せんしゃ, sensha), チャリオット (ja) (chariotto), 馬車 (ja) (ばしゃ, basha)
Kazakh: арба (arba)
Khmer: រថ (km) (rŭət), រទេះ (km) (rɔteh)
Korean: 전차 (ko) (jeoncha), 마차 (ko) (macha)
Kyrgyz: араба (ky) (araba)
Lao: ສັນທະນະ (san tha na), ລົດ (lo) (lot)
Latin: currus (la) m, curriculum n, (Celtic) essedum n, (poetic) rota f, (with four horses) quadrīgae (la) f pl
Macedonian: ко́чија f (kóčija), дво́колка f (dvókolka), бо́јна ко́ла f (bójna kóla)
Malay: cikar
Malayalam: രഥം (ml) (rathaṁ), തേര് (ml) (tērŭ)
Maori: hāriata
Marathi: रथ (mr) m (rath)
Middle Persian: 𐫡𐫍𐫏 (rah)
Mon: ရထာပၞာန် (mnw), ကွဳပၞာန် (mnw), ယုဒ္ဓရထ m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stridsvogn (no) m or f
Old Church Slavonic: возъ m (vozŭ)
Old English: hrædwæġn m
Old Norse: reið f
Ottoman Turkish: قاكلی (kañlı)
Pali: ratha m
Persian: گردونه (fa) (gardune), ارابه (fa) (arâbe), غرده (fa) (ğarde), ری (fa) sg (rayy) (archaic)
Polish: rydwan (pl) m
Portuguese: biga (pt)
Romanian: bigă (ro) f, car de luptă n
Russian: колесни́ца (ru) f (kolesníca)
Sanskrit: रथ (sa) m (ratha)
Scottish Gaelic: carbad m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: двоколица f, кочије n
Roman: dvokolica (sh) f, kočije (sh) n
Slovak: voz m
Slovene: voz (sl) m
Spanish: quadriga f, biga (es) f , carro (es) m (de guerra)
Swedish: stridsvagn (sv), häststridsvagn
Tagalog: karo
Tajik: ароба (tg) (aroba)
Thai: รถ (th) (rót)
Turkish: savaş arabası
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎋𐎁𐎚 (mrkbt)
Ukrainian: колісни́ця (uk) f (kolisnýcja)
Urdu: رتھ m (rath)
Uzbek: jang aravasi, arava (uz)
Vietnamese: chiếc xe, xe (vi)
Welsh: cerbyd (cy) m :

### Verb

chariot (third-person singular simple present chariots, present participle charioting, simple past and past participle charioted)
* (transitive, rare, poetic) To convey by, or as if by, chariot.
* (intransitive) To ride in a chariot.

#### See also

Xiangqi pieces in English (see also: xiangqi) (layout · text) :
| general | advisor | elephant | horse | chariot | cannon | soldier |

### Anagrams

* Torahic, Torchia, haricot

## French
### Alternative forms

* charriot (post-1990 spelling)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old French chariot, from char or from charrier +‎ -ot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃa.ʁjo/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -jo

### Noun

chariot m (plural chariots)
* A car/carriage or wagon
* carriage (of a computer printer)
    chariot bloqué
* (North America) shopping cart
    Synonym: caddie

#### Derived terms

* chariot élévateur

### Further reading

* “chariot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* haricot
* torchai