knight

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
 * 2)  A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
 * 3)  An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
 * 4)  A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
 * 5)  A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
 * 6)  A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
 * 7)  A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
 * 8)  A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
 * 9)  Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus.
 * 10)  Any mushroom belonging to genus.
 * 1)  Any mushroom belonging to genus.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ridder
 * Albanian:, kalorëse
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: caballeru
 * Azerbaijani: cəngavər, rıtsar
 * Basque: zaldun
 * Belarusian: ры́цар, ві́цязь, багаты́р, лы́цар
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: marghek, marghoges
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kavaliro
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Middle French: chevalier
 * Old French: chevalier
 * Friulian: cavalîr
 * Galician:, cabaleira
 * Georgian: რაინდი
 * German:
 * Middle High German: rîtære, rîter, riter, ritter
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, , नाइट
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: cavallero, cavaliero
 * Irish: ridire
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: сері
 * Khmer: អស្សឬទ្ធិ
 * Korean:, 나이트
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سوارا
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:
 * Medieval Latin: ,
 * Latvian: bruņinieks
 * Lithuanian: riteris
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: ridder
 * Macedonian: витез, ,
 * Malay: kesatria
 * Maltese: kavallier
 * Manx: reejerey
 * Maranao: kabayo
 * Middle English: knyght, chivaler
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: riddar
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Old English: ridda
 * Old Occitan: cavaller, cavalier
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ridire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: витез
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: rytier, víťaz
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, caballera
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:, maginoo
 * Tajik: баҳодур, ритсар
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ли́цар, ри́цар, ви́тязь,
 * Uyghur: چەۋەنداز
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: rycyż
 * Welsh: marchog
 * West Frisian: ridder
 * Yiddish: ריטער
 * Zazaki: sahsuar, sowalya,


 * Armenian:
 * Basque: zaldun
 * Belarusian: ры́цар
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kavaliro
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, cabaleira
 * Georgian: რაინდი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ridire
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сері
 * Khmer: អស្សឬទ្ធិ
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: витез
 * Marathi: नाइट
 * Middle English: knyght
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ridire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: витез
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: rytier
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, caballera
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ли́цар
 * Uyghur: چەۋەنداز, سېر ئۇنۋانى


 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, فَرَس
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: конь, ве́ршнік, ко́ннік, ко́ньнік
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 馬, 騎士
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: riddari
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მხედარი
 * German:, , , , Rössel , Rössl
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ridire
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kashmiri:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 나이트
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ມ້າ
 * Latvian: zirdziņš
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: коњ
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: (cavalry)
 * Maori:
 * Marathi:
 * Middle English: knyght
 * Middle Persian: SWSYA
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: hashkééjí naatʼááh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: springer,
 * Nynorsk: springar, hest
 * Ojibwe: zhiimaaganish
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: коњ, скакач
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: jazdec
 * Slovene:, skakač
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, jemadari
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: گھوڑا
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: ריטער, שפּרינגער, זקן
 * Zazaki:

Etymology 2
From, , from the noun. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)   To confer knighthood upon.
 * 2)  To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
 * 1)  To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
 * 1)  To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish: slå til ridder
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kavaliri
 * Estonian: rüütliks lööma
 * Finnish: lyödä ritariksi
 * French: faire chevalier
 * German: zum Ritter schlagen
 * Hebrew: העניק תואר אבירות
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: прогласува за витез
 * Maori: whakanaiti
 * Persian: شوالیه کردن
 * Polish: pasować na rycerza nadać rangę kawalerską
 * Portuguese: dar o título de cavaleiro
 * Russian: посвяща́ть в ры́цари
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: באַריטערן
 * Zazaki: sowalya kerden