commandant

From French commandant, from commander, from Middle French commander, from Old French comander, from Latin commandāre, from commendō + mandō.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒməndænt/, /kɒmənˈdænt/, /-dɑnt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒməndənt/, /ˈkɒməndɑːnt/, /kɒmənˈdɑːnt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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commandant (plural commandants)

1. (military) A commanding officer, usually of a specific force or division.
2. (military) A military rank equivalent to major used in some countries, especially when derived from French usage.
3. (military, South Africa, historical) lieutenant-colonel

• Radburn, A. (2012). SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY RANKS AND INSIGNIA. Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.5787/20-2-364

Borrowed from French commandant, from commander, from Middle French commander, from Old French comander, from Latin commandāre, from commendō + mandō.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔ.mɑnˈdɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: com‧man‧dant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

commandant m (plural commandanten, diminutive commandantje n)

1. commander

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• commanderen
• commando

• Afrikaans: kommandant
• → Indonesian: komandan
• → Min Nan: 公勃壟 / 公勃垄 (kong-pu̍t-lóng)
• → West Frisian: kommandant

Present participle of commander.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃.dɑ̃/

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Homophone: commandants

commandant m (plural commandants, feminine commandante)

1. commander (function)
2. major (rank)

• → Arabic: كُوماندان (komāndān, “commander”)
• → English: commandant
• → German: Kommandant
• → Dutch: commandant
  • Afrikaans: kommandant
  • → Indonesian: komandan
  • → Min Nan: 公勃壟 / 公勃垄 (kong-pu̍t-lóng)
  • → West Frisian: kommandant
• Haitian Creole: komandan
• → Hindi: कमांडेंट (kamāṇḍẽṭ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قوماندان (komandan)
  • → Arabic: قُومَنْدان (qomandān, “military commander”)
  • Turkish: kumandan
  • → Pashto: قومندان (qumandā́n, qomandā́n), کومندان (kumandā́n, komandā́n), کوماندان (kumāndā́n, komāndā́n)
  • → Persian:

    Dari: قومَنْدَان (qōmandān), قومَانْدَان (qōmāndān)

  • → Uyghur: قوماندان (qomandan)
  • → Uzbek: qoʻmondon
• → Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کُمانْدان (komândân), کوماندان (komândân)

• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: کُمیدان (kumedān)

  Gurmukhi script: ਕੁਮੇਦਾਨ (kumedān)

• → Russian: коменда́нт (komendánt)

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

commandant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of commandō

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commandant m (plural commandants, feminine commandante)

1. (Jersey) commanding officer