sergeant

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• UK: /ˈsɑː.d͡ʒənt/
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• US: /ˈsɑɹ.d͡ʒənt/
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• General-American: /ˈsɑɹ(ə)nt/
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From Middle English sergeant, sergeaunt, serjent, serjaunt, serjawnt, sergant, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem, accusative of serviēns (“a servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin serviēns (“serving”), present participle of serviō (“serve, be a slave to”). Doublet of servant and servient. The shift from /vj/ > /dʒ/ was a regular development in Old French. Compare cavea > cage, salvia > sage. The fish is so called because of its stripes, supposed to resemble a sergeant's insignia of rank. The pronunciation with /ɑɹ/ is due to a widespread development of Middle English er + consonant (see barn, start etc.). In sergeant, the spelling was standardised in one way, the pronunciation in another (compare clerk, derby in Commonwealth English, further parson vs. person, and varsity vs. university).

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sersant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Albanian: rreshter — noncommissioned officer rank
• Arabic: رَقِيب (raqīb) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Arabic: عَرِيف (ʕarīf) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Juba Arabic: ragiib — noncommissioned officer rank
• Armenian: սերժանտ (seržant) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Azerbaijani: çavuş — noncommissioned officer rank
• Azerbaijani: serjant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Belarusian: сяржа́нт (sjaržánt) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Bengali: সার্জেণ্ট (śarjenṭo) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Bulgarian: сержа́нт (seržánt) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Burmese: ဆာဂျင် (hcagyang) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Burmese: စာသင် (casang) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Catalan: sergent — noncommissioned officer rank
• Chinese Cantonese: 沙展 (saa1 zin2) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Chinese Mandarin: 軍士 /军士 (jūnshì) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Chinese Mandarin: 警官 (jǐngguān) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Chinese Mandarin: 警長 /警长 (jǐngzhǎng) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Chinese Mandarin: 警曹 (jǐngcáo) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Czech: četař — noncommissioned officer rank
• Danish: sergent — noncommissioned officer rank
• Dutch: sergeant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Esperanto: serĝento — noncommissioned officer rank
• Estonian: seersant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Finnish: kersantti — noncommissioned officer rank
• French: sergent — noncommissioned officer rank
• Galician: sarxento — noncommissioned officer rank
• Georgian: სერჟანტი (seržanṭi) — noncommissioned officer rank
• German: Stabsunteroffizier — noncommissioned officer rank
• German: Feldwebel — noncommissioned officer rank
• Greek: λοχίας (lochías) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Greek: αρχιφύλακας (archifýlakas) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hebrew: סָמַל (samál) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hindi: सार्जण्ट (sārjaṇṭ) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hindi: हवलदार (havaldār) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hindi: सारजंट (sārjaṇṭ) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hindi: सार्जंट (sārjaṇṭ) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hindi: हवालदार (havāldār) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hindi: जमादार (jamādār) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hindi: दफादार (daphādār) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hungarian: őrmester — noncommissioned officer rank
• Hungarian: szakaszvezető — noncommissioned officer rank
• Icelandic: liðþjálfi — noncommissioned officer rank
• Indonesian: sersan — noncommissioned officer rank
• Irish: sáirsint — noncommissioned officer rank
• Italian: sergente — noncommissioned officer rank
• Japanese: 軍曹 (gunsō) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Kazakh: сержант (serjant) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Korean: 중사 (jungsa) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Kyrgyz: сержант (serjant) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Latvian: seržants — noncommissioned officer rank
• Lithuanian: seržantas — noncommissioned officer rank
• Macedonian: водник (vodnik) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Macedonian: наредник (narednik) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Malay: sarjan — noncommissioned officer rank
• Māori: haihana — noncommissioned officer rank
• Māori: tāriana — noncommissioned officer rank
• Mongolian: түрүүч (türüüč) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Norman: sèrgent — noncommissioned officer rank
• Norwegian Bokmål: sersjant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sersjant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Persian: گروهبان (goruhbân) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Polish: sierżant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Portuguese: sargento — noncommissioned officer rank
• Romanian: sergent — noncommissioned officer rank
• Russian: сержа́нт (seržánt) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Serbo-Croatian: на́реднӣк — noncommissioned officer rank
• Serbo-Croatian: на́редница — noncommissioned officer rank
• Serbo-Croatian: во̏днӣк — noncommissioned officer rank
• Serbo-Croatian: narednik — noncommissioned officer rank
• Serbo-Croatian: narednica — noncommissioned officer rank
• Serbo-Croatian: vȍdnīk — noncommissioned officer rank
• Slovak: čatár — noncommissioned officer rank
• Slovene: vódnik — noncommissioned officer rank
• Slovene: vódnica — noncommissioned officer rank
• Spanish: sargento — noncommissioned officer rank
• Swahili: sajini — noncommissioned officer rank
• Swedish: sergeant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Tajik: сержант (seržant) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Tajik: гурӯҳбон (gurühbon) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Thai: จ่า (jàa) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Thai: สิบเอก (sìp-èek) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Turkish: çavuş — noncommissioned officer rank
• Turkmen: seržant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Ukrainian: сержа́нт (seržánt) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Urdu: سارجنٹ (sārjanṭ) — noncommissioned officer rank
• Uzbek: serjant — noncommissioned officer rank
• Vietnamese: trung sĩ — noncommissioned officer rank
• Yiddish: סערזשאַנט (serzhant) — noncommissioned officer rank