Cossack

Etymology
From, from , from , from (whence  ), from , from , from , from. . First appears c. 1587 in the writings of.

Noun

 * 1) A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
 * 2) A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above).
 * 3)  A Ukrainian.
 * 4)   A mercenary; a regular or irregular soldier employed to persecute or oppress disfavoured groups, or in massacres of such groups, such as in anti-Jewish pogroms; a police officer or private security guard, particularly one used in strike-breaking; a violent thug.

Translations

 * Albanian: kozak
 * Arabic: قُوزَاق
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: kazak
 * Belarusian: каза́к, каза́чка
 * Bulgarian: каза́к, каза́чка
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: qazaq
 * Czech:, kozáčka
 * Danish: kosak
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kasakas
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კაზაკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קוזאק
 * Hindi: कोज़ाक, कज़ाक,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kósakki
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: コサック
 * Kalmyk: хазг
 * Kazakh: казак
 * Korean: 카자크
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: kazaks
 * Lithuanian: kazokas
 * Macedonian: Козак
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kosakk
 * Nynorsk: kosakk
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: коꙁакъ
 * Old East Slavic: козакъ
 * Old Ruthenian: козакъ
 * Ossetian: хъазах
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, Kozaczka
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਕਸਾਕ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Козак
 * Roman: Kozak
 * Slovak:, kozáčka
 * Slovene: kozak
 * Spanish: cosaco
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Kosako
 * Tajik: казак
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: kazak
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: Cô-dắc
 * Welsh: Cosac
 * Written Oirat: ᡍᠠᠴᠠᡎ
 * Yiddish: קאָזאַק


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kósakki
 * Old Ruthenian: козакъ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak:
 * Tagalog: Kosako
 * Ukrainian:
 * Yiddish: קאָזאַק, קאָזאַקן


 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: