sergeant

Etymology
From, , , , , , from , , , , , from , accusative of , from , present participle of. .

The shift from >  was a regular development in Old French. Compare >,  >.

The fish is so called because of its stripes, supposed to resemble a sergeant's insignia of rank.

The pronunciation with is due to a widespread development of Middle English er + consonant (see,  etc.). In, the spelling was standardised in one way, the pronunciation in another (compare , in Commonwealth English, further  vs. , and  vs. ).

Noun

 * 1)  UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
 * 2) The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
 * 3)  A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
 * 4) A bailiff.
 * 5) A servant in monastic offices.
 * 6) A fish, the cobia.
 * 7) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus ; distinct from the false sergeants.
 * 1) A bailiff.
 * 2) A servant in monastic offices.
 * 3) A fish, the cobia.
 * 4) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus ; distinct from the false sergeants.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: sersant
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: رَقِيب, عَرِيف
 * Juba Arabic: ragiib
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: сяржа́нт
 * Bengali: সার্জেণ্ট
 * Bulgarian: сержа́нт
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 沙展
 * Mandarin:, , 警長,  警曹
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: serĝento
 * Estonian: seersant
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სერჟანტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , , , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: sáirsint
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сержант
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: сержант
 * Latvian: seržants
 * Lithuanian: seržantas
 * Macedonian: водник, наредник
 * Malay: sarjan
 * Maori: haihana, tāriana
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: sèrgent
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sersjant
 * Nynorsk: sersjant
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: на́реднӣк, на́редница, во̏днӣк
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: čatár
 * Slovene: vódnik, vódnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: сержант, гурӯҳбон
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: seržant
 * Ukrainian: сержа́нт
 * Urdu: سارجنٹ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: סערזשאַנט

Etymology
From, from , from. The current spelling is influenced by.

Noun

 * 1)  non-commissioned officer in several armed forces

Usage notes
This rank is in use in the Dutch army, navy and air force, in the Belgian army and air force and in the Surinamese army.