جنرال
Appearance
Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French général, from Latin generalis.
Noun
[edit]جِنِرال • (jinirāl) m (plural جِنِرالَات (jinirālāt))
- (military) general (officer in any general rank, such as a brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, etc.)
Usage notes
[edit]- The word is used referring to non-Arab armies and, chiefly informally, also to Arab armies.
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably originally from Venetan zeneral referring to officers of the Venetian navy, or from Middle French general, in either case from Latin generalis.
Noun
[edit]جنرال • (ceneral)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: general
References
[edit]- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 718
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنرال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 682
Categories:
- Arabic terms borrowed from French
- Arabic terms derived from French
- Arabic terms derived from Latin
- Arabic lemmas
- Arabic nouns
- Arabic masculine nouns
- ar:Military
- Ottoman Turkish terms borrowed from Venetan
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Venetan
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Latin
- Ottoman Turkish lemmas
- Ottoman Turkish nouns