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English
Etymology
From field + marshal, calque of German Feldmarschall or its source, Middle French maréchal de camp.
Noun
field marshal (plural field marshals)
- (military) In certain nations the highest military rank, ranking below only the commander in chief; now essentially disused.
Translations
highest military rank after the commander in chief
- Afrikaans: field marshall
- Arabic: مُشِير (ar) m (mušīr)
- Juba Arabic: mushiir
- Belarusian: фельдма́ршал m (fjelʹdmáršal)
- Bulgarian: фелдмаршал m (feldmaršal)
- Catalan: mariscal de camp m
- Cherokee: ᏗᏓᏂᏱᏍᎩ (didaniyisgi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 陸軍元帥 / 陆军元帅 (lùjūn yuánshuài), 元帥 / 元帅 (zh) (yuánshuài), 司令 (zh) (sīlìng)
- Czech: polní maršál (cs) m, feldmaršál m, polní maršálek m, feldmaršálek (cs) m
- Danish: feltmarskal c
- Dutch: veldmaarschalk (nl) m
- Estonian: armeekindral, armee ülemjuhataja
- Finnish: kenttämarsalkka
- French: maréchal (fr) m, maréchal de camp (fr) m
- Georgian: ფელდმარშალი (peldmaršali)
- German: Feldmarschall (de) m
- Greek: στρατάρχης (el) m (stratárchis)
- Hebrew: פִילְדְמַרְשָׁל m (fildmarshál), פֶלְדְמַרְשָׁל m (feldmarshál)
- Hindi: फील्ड मार्शल m (phīlḍ mārśal)
- Hungarian: tábornagy (hu)
- Icelandic: sviði marshal m
- Irish: marascal machaire m
- Italian: feldmaresciallo m, maresciallo di campo m
- Japanese: 陸軍元帥 (りくぐんげんすい, rikugun gensui), 元帥 (ja) (げんすい, gensui)
- Kazakh: фельдмаршал (feldmarşal)
- Khmer: សេនាប្រមុខ (km) (seeniəprɔɔmuk)
- Korean: 원수님 (ko) (wonsunim)
- Kyrgyz: фельдмаршал (ky) (feldmarşal)
- Lao: ແມ່ທັບ (lo) (mǣ thap)
- Macedonian: фелдмаршал m (feldmaršal)
- Malay: fil marsyal
- Maori: ariki whawhai
- Norwegian: feltmarskalk m
- Ottoman Turkish: فلدمارشال (feldmarşal)
- Persian: فیلد مارشال (fild mâršâl)
- Polish: feldmarszałek (pl) m, marszałek polny (pl) m
- Portuguese: marechal de campo (pt) m
- Romanian: feldmareșal (ro) m
- Russian: фельдма́ршал (ru) m (felʹdmáršal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фе̏лдмарша̄л m
- Roman: fȅldmaršāl (sh) m
- Slovak: poľný maršal m
- Slovene: feldmaršal m
- Spanish: mariscal de campo m
- Swedish: fältmarskalk (sv) c
- Tamil: படைத்துறை உயர் தளபதி (paṭaittuṟai uyar taḷapati)
- Thai: จอมพล (th) (jɔɔm-pon)
- Ukrainian: фельдма́ршал m (felʹdmáršal)
- Uzbek: felʼdmarshal
- Vietnamese: thống soái (vi), thống tướng (vi), thống chế (vi)
- Welsh: cadlywydd maes m
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