battalion

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bəˈtæl.i.ən/
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• General-American: /bəˈtæl.jən/
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• CMU ARPABET: B AH0 T AE1 L Y AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French battaillon (modern French bataillon).

85 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bataljon — army unit
• Albanian: batalion — army unit
• Arabic: كَتِيبَة (katība) — army unit
• Armenian: գումարտակ (gumartak) — army unit
• Azerbaijani: tabor — army unit
• Belarusian: батальён (batalʹjón) — army unit
• Belarusian: дывізіён (dyvizijón) — army unit
• Belarusian: дывізыён (dyvizyjón) — army unit
• Bulgarian: батальо́н (bataljón) — army unit
• Burmese: တပ်ရင်း (tap-rang:) — army unit
• Catalan: batalló — army unit
• Chinese Mandarin: 營 /营 (yíng) — army unit
• Chinese Mandarin: 大隊 /大队 (dàduì) — army unit
• Crimean Tatar: batalyon — army unit
• Czech: prapor — army unit
• Danish: bataljon — army unit
• Dutch: bataljon — army unit
• Erzya: коцталкс (koctalks) — army unit
• Estonian: pataljon — army unit
• Finnish: pataljoona — army unit
• French: bataillon — army unit
• Georgian: ბატალიონი (baṭalioni) — army unit
• German: Bataillon — army unit
• German: Sanitätsbataillon — army unit
• Greek: τάγμα (tágma) — army unit
• Hebrew: גְּדוּד (gdud) — army unit
• Hindi: बटालियन (baṭāliyan) — army unit
• Hungarian: zászlóalj — army unit
• Ido: batalieraro — army unit
• Indonesian: batalyon — army unit
• Indonesian: batalion — army unit
• Irish: cathlán — army unit
• Italian: battaglione — army unit
• Italian: compagnia — army unit
• Japanese: 大隊 (daitai) — army unit
• Kazakh: батальон (batalon) — army unit
• Korean: 대대 (daedae) — army unit
• Kyrgyz: батальон (batalon) — army unit
• Latvian: bataljons — army unit
• Lithuanian: bataljonas — army unit
• Macedonian: баталјо́н (bataljón) — army unit
• Malay: batalion — army unit
• Māori: pātariana — army unit
• Māori: ope taua — army unit
• Norman: bataillon — army unit
• Norwegian Bokmål: bataljon — army unit
• Persian: گردان (gardân) — army unit
• Persian: باطالیون (bâtâlyon) — army unit
• Polish: batalion — army unit
• Polish: baon — army unit
• Portuguese: batalhão — army unit
• Romanian: batalion — army unit
• Russian: батальо́н (batalʹón) — army unit
• Russian: дивизио́н (divizión) — army unit
• Serbo-Croatian: батаљон — army unit
• Serbo-Croatian: bataljon — army unit
• Sicilian: battagghiuni — army unit
• Slovak: prápor — army unit
• Slovene: bataljon — army unit
• Spanish: batallón — army unit
• Swahili: batalioni — army unit
• Swedish: bataljon — army unit
• Tajik: батальон (batalon) — army unit
• Tajik: гурдон (gurdon) — army unit
• Telugu: పటాలము (paṭālamu) — army unit
• Thai: กองพัน (gɔɔng-pan) — army unit
• Turkish: tabur — army unit
• Ukrainian: батальйо́н (batalʹjón) — army unit
• Ukrainian: дивізіо́н (dyvizión) — army unit
• Uzbek: batalon — army unit
• Vietnamese: tiểu đoàn — army unit
• Afrikaans: bataljon — any large body of troops
• Albanian: batalion — any large body of troops
• Finnish: pataljoona — any large body of troops
• French: bataillon — any large body of troops
• German: Bataillon — any large body of troops
• Greek: λεφούσι (lefoúsi) — any large body of troops
• Greek: στίφος (stífos) — any large body of troops
• Māori: ope taua — any large body of troops
• Norman: bataillon — any large body of troops
• Portuguese: batalhão — any large body of troops
• Spanish: batallón — any large body of troops
• Greek: λεφούσι (lefoúsi) — great number of things
• Greek: στίφος (stífos) — great number of things
• Sicilian: cafoḍḍu — great number of things