# gendarme
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme, from plural gendarmes, a re-spelling of gens d’armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ʒɒnˈdɑːm/
* (US) IPA: /ʒɑnˈdɑɹm/
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m

### Noun

gendarme (plural gendarmes or gensdarmes)
* A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
* A policeman.
** 2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170:The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.
* A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
** 1979, Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, →ISBN, page 118:The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.
** 1998, Climbing - Issues 178-180, page 64:The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.
** 2013, Joe Kelsey, Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, →ISBN, page 259:Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes (the first being the owl-eared one referred to in the next route description) and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.

#### Synonyms

* (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* red mange

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ʒənˈdar.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [d͡ʒenˈdaɾ.me]

### Noun

gendarme m or f by sense (plural gendarmes)
* gendarme

#### Related terms

* gendarmeria

### Further reading

* “gendarme”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## French
### Etymology

Singular extracted from plural gendarmes, which arose as a re-spelling of gens d’armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒɑ̃.daʁm/
* Audio; “un gendarme”:(file)

### Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)
* a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties
* firebug (the insect)
* landjäger (a type of sausage)

#### Derived terms

* gendarme allongé

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: gendarme
* → Czech: žandarm
* → English: gendarme
* → Franco-Provençal: g·endârme
* → Galician: xendarme
* → German: Gendarm
** → Polish: szendar
* → Italian: gendarme
* → Ottoman Turkish: ژاندارمه (jandarma), ժանտարմա (jandarma) — Armeno-Turkish
** Turkish: jandarma
** → Armenian: ժանտարմա (žantarma)
** → Laz: ჯანდამა (candama), ჟანდამა (jandama) — Arkabi, ჟანდარმა (jandarma) — Akçakoca, ჯანდარმა (candarma)
* → Persian: ژاندرم (žândarm)
* → Polish: żandarm
* → Portuguese: gendarme
* → Romanian: jandarm
* → Russian: жандарм (žandarm)
** → Armenian: ժանդարմ (žandarm)
** → Georgian: ჟანდარმი (žandarmi)
** → Turkmen: žandarm
** → Uyghur: ژاندارما (zhandarma)
* → Spanish: gendarme
* → Ukrainian: жандарм (žandarm)

### Further reading

* “gendarme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* Gendarme (charcuterie) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$

### Anagrams

* démanger

## Galician
### Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes, reintegrationist norm)
* reintegrationist spelling of xendarme

### Further reading

* “gendarme” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒenˈdar.me/
* Rhymes: -arme
* Hyphenation: gen‧dàr‧me

### Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmi)
* policeman (armed)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒẽˈdaʁ.mi/ [ʒẽˈdaɦ.mi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒẽˈdaʁ.mi/ [ʒẽˈdaɦ.mi]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʒẽˈdaɾ.mi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʒẽˈdaʁ.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʒẽˈdaɻ.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒẽˈdaɾ.mɨ/
* Hyphenation: gen‧dar‧me

### Noun

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)
* gendarme (member of the gendarmerie)

### Further reading

* “gendarme” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “gendarme”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “gendarme”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gendarme.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xenˈdaɾme/ [xẽn̪ˈd̪aɾ.me]
* Rhymes: -aɾme
* Syllabification: gen‧dar‧me

### Noun

gendarme m or f by sense (plural gendarmes)
* (law enforcement) policeperson (armed)

#### Related terms

* gendarmería f

### Further reading

* “gendarme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10