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English
Etymology
A calque of French cour martiale, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun.
Noun
court martial (plural (formal) courts martial or (informal) court martials)
- (law, military) A court where cases of military law are heard.
- (law, military) A trial before such a tribunal.
Translations
court; council of war
- Afrikaans: krygsgereg sg, krygsraad sg
- Basque: gerra-kontseilu sg, gorte martzial, auzitegi militarra
- Bulgarian: военен съд m (voenen sǎd)
- Catalan: cort marcial f, tribunal militar m, consell de guerra m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 軍事法庭/军事法庭 (zh) (jūnshì fǎtíng)
- Czech: stanný soud m
- Danish: krigsret c, militær domstol c
- Dutch: krijgsraad (nl) m, krijgsgerecht n, militaire rechtbank f
- Esperanto: militkortumo
- Finnish: sotaoikeus, sotatuomioistuin
- French: cour martiale (fr) f, tribunal militaire (fr) m, conseil de guerre (fr) m
- Galician: consello de guerra m, tribunal militar m
- German: Kriegsgericht (de) n, Kriegsrat (de) m
- Greek: στρατοδικείο (el) n (stratodikeío), (admiralty court) ναυτοδικείο (el) n (naftodikeío)
- Hebrew: בית דין צבאי (he)
- Hungarian: hadbíróság (hu), haditörvényszék (hu)
- Japanese: 軍法会議 (gunpō kaigi)
- Korean: 군사법원 (軍事法院) (ko) (gunsabeobwon), 군법회의 (軍法會議) (ko) (gunbeophoe'ui)
- Norwegian: krigsrett m, militær domstol m
- Polish: sąd wojskowy m
- Portuguese: corte marcial, tribunal marcial m, conselho de guerra m
- Romanian: curte marțială (ro) f
- Russian: трибуна́л (ru) m (tribunál), вое́нный суд m (vojénnyj sud)
- Spanish: corte marcial f, consejo de guerra m, tribunal militar m
- Swedish: krigsrätt c, militärdomstol c, militärtribunal c
- Tagalog: hukumang-hukbo, hukumang-militar
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Verb
court martial (third-person singular simple present court martials, present participle (US) court martialing or (UK) court martialling, simple past and past participle (US) court martialed or (UK) court martialled)
- (law, military) To subject to trial in a military court.
Translations
to bring to court martial
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