colonel

Etymology
First attested 1548, from, from , from , from , originally a collateral form of , contraction , o-grade form from a. See,.

Pronunciation
The anomalous pronunciation is probably a holdover of the pronunciation of the earlier, obsolete form.

Noun

 * 1) A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag officer ranks (generals). It is generally found in armies, air forces or naval infantry (marines).

Usage notes

 * When used as a title, it is always capitalized.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kolonel
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, زَعِيم, زَعِيم رُتْبَة, كُولُونِيل
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: culunel
 * Azerbaijani:, sərhəng
 * Belarusian: палко́ўнік
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: полко́вник
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 上校
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kolonel, polkovnik
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პოლკოვნიკი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: કર્નલ
 * Haitian Creole: kolonèl
 * Hebrew: אַלּוּף מִשְׁנֶה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: полковник
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: полковник
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: pulkvedis
 * Lithuanian: pulkininkas
 * Macedonian: полковник
 * Malay: kolonel
 * Maltese: kurunell
 * Manx: curnal
 * Maori: kānara
 * Marathi: कर्नल
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠷᠠᠩᠳᠠ
 * Norman: coronel
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: oberst
 * Pashto: ډګروال, کرنل, کرنيل
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пу̀ко̄внӣк, пуковница
 * Roman:, pukovnica
 * Sicilian: culunnellu, culunneḍḍu
 * Slovak: plukovník
 * Slovene: polkovnik, polkóvnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: полковник, сарҳанг
 * Tatar: полковник
 * Telugu: కర్నల్
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: polkownik
 * Ukrainian: полко́вник
 * Urdu: کَرْنَل
 * Uyghur: پولكوۋنىك, شاڭشياۋ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (大佐)
 * Welsh: gyrnol
 * Yiddish: פּאָלקאָווניק, קאָלאָנעל

Verb

 * 1)  To act as or like a colonel.

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, borrowed earlier from the same source. See for more.

Noun

 * a, highest commissioned officer below generals
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Etymology 1
, from, which see.

Noun

 * 1)  military officer above lieutenant-colonel and below all generals

Etymology 2
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Noun

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