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English
A knight (warrior).
A knight (chess).
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English knight , knyght , kniht , from Old English cniht ( “ boy; servant, knight ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *kneht .
Alternative forms
Noun
knight (plural knights )
( historical ) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord .
( historical ) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire .
( by extension ) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages .
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
( law , historical ) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee .
( modern ) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch .
( literary ) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest .
( chess ) 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.
( card games , dated ) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
( entomology ) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima .
( modern ) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma .
Synonyms
( chess piece ) : horse ( informal )
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
warrior, especially of the Middle Ages
Afrikaans: ridder
Albanian: kalorës (sq) m , kalorëse f
Arabic: فَارِس (ar) m ( fāris )
Armenian: ասպետ (hy) ( aspet )
Aromanian: caballeru m
Azerbaijani: cəngavər , rıtsar
Basque: zaldun
Belarusian: ры́цар m ( rýcar ) , ві́цязь m ( vícjazʹ ) , багаты́р m ( bahatýr ) , лы́цар m ( lýcar )
Breton: marc'heg (br)
Bulgarian: ри́цар (bg) m ( rícar )
Catalan: cavaller (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 騎士 / 骑士 (zh) ( qíshì ) , 大俠 / 大侠 (zh) ( dàxiá ) , 爵士 (zh) ( juéshì )
Cornish: marghek m , marghoges f
Czech: rytíř (cs) m , vítěz (cs)
Danish: ridder (da) c
Dutch: ridder (nl) m
Esperanto: kavaliro
Estonian: rüütel (et)
Finnish: ritari (fi)
French: chevalier (fr) m
Middle French: chevalier m
Old French: chevalier m
Friulian: cavalîr m
Galician: cabaleiro (gl) m , cabaleira f
Georgian: რაინდი ( raindi )
German: Ritter (de) m
Middle High German: rîtære m , rîter m , riter m , ritter m
Greek: ιππότης (el) m ( ippótis )
Hebrew: פָּרָשׁ (he) m ( parásh ) , אַבִּיר (he) m ( abír )
Hindi: शूरवीर (hi) m ( śūrvīr ) , राउल (hi) m ( rāul ) , नाइट m ( nāiṭ )
Hungarian: lovag (hu)
Icelandic: riddari (is) m
Ido: kavaliero (io)
Indonesian: ksatria (id)
Interlingua: cavallero , cavaliero
Irish: ridire m
Italian: cavaliere (it) m
Japanese: 騎士 (ja) ( きし, kishi ) , ナイト (ja) ( naito )
Kazakh: сері ( serı )
Khmer: អស្សឬទ្ធិ ( ahsa’ rɨɨ tʰi’ )
Korean: 기사(騎士) (ko) ( gisa ) , 나이트 ( naiteu )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سوارا ( swara )
Northern Kurdish: şovalye (ku) , siwarî (ku)
Kyrgyz: рыцарь (ky) ( rıtsar )
Latin: eques (la) m
Medieval Latin: mīles (la) m , mīlitāris (la) m
Latvian: bruņinieks m
Lithuanian: riteris m
Low German:
German Low German: ridder
Macedonian: витез m ( vitez ) , рицар (mk) m ( ricar ) , ритер (mk) m ( riter )
Malay: kesatria
Maltese: kavallier
Manx: reejerey
Maranao: kabayo
Middle English: knyght , chivaler
Norwegian: ridder (no)
Nynorsk: riddar
Norwegian Bokmål: ridder (no) m
Old English: ridda m
Old Occitan: cavaller , cavalier
Persian: شهسوار (fa) ( šahsavâr ) , شوالیه (fa) ( šovâliye )
Polish: rycerz (pl) m pers , raciądz (pl) m pers
Portuguese: cavaleiro (pt) m
Romanian: cavaler (ro) m
Russian: ры́царь (ru) m ( rýcarʹ ) , ви́тязь (ru) m ( vítjazʹ ) , богаты́рь (ru) m ( bogatýrʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: ridire m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: витез m
Roman: vitez (sh) m
Sicilian: cavaleri (scn) m
Slovak: rytier m , víťaz m
Slovene: vitez (sl) m
Spanish: caballero (es) m , caballera f
Swedish: knekt (sv) c , riddare (sv) c
Tagalog: kabalyero (tl) , maginoo
Tajik: баҳодур ( bahodur ) , ритсар ( ritsar )
Thai: อัศวิน (th) ( àt-sà-win )
Turkish: şövalye (tr)
Ukrainian: ли́цар m ( lýcar ) , ри́цар m ( rýcar ) , ви́тязь m ( výtjazʹ ) , богати́р (uk) m ( bohatýr )
Uyghur: چەۋەنداز ( chewendaz )
Uzbek: ritsar (uz)
Vietnamese: hiệp sĩ (vi)
Vilamovian: rycyż m
Welsh: marchog m
West Frisian: ridder
Yiddish: ריטער m ( riter )
Zazaki: sahsuar m , sowalya m , aspar (diq)
person on whom a knighthood has been conferred
chess piece
Afrikaans: ruiter (af) , perd (af)
Albanian: kalë (sq) m
Arabic: حِصَان (ar) m ( ḥiṣān ) , فَرَس m ( faras )
Armenian: ձի (hy) ( ji )
Azerbaijani: at (az)
Basque: zaldi (eu)
Belarusian: конь m ( konʹ ) , ве́ршнік m ( vjéršnik ) , ко́ннік m ( kónnik ) , ко́ньнік m ( kónʹnik )
Bengali: ঘোড়া (bn) ( ghōṛa )
Bulgarian: кон (bg) m ( kon )
Burmese: မြင်း (my) ( mrang: )
Catalan: cavall (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 馬 / 马 ( maa5 ) , 騎士 / 骑士 ( ke4 si6 )
Mandarin: 馬 / 马 (zh) ( mǎ ) , 騎士 / 骑士 (zh) ( qíshì )
Czech: jezdec (cs) m
Danish: springer (da) c , hest (da) c
Dutch: paard (nl) n
Esperanto: ĉevalo (eo)
Estonian: ratsu (et)
Faroese: riddari m
Finnish: ratsu (fi)
French: cavalier (fr) m
Galician: cabalo (gl) m
Georgian: მხედარი ( mxedari )
German: Springer (de) m , (please verify ) Gaul (de) m , Pferd (de) n , Ross (de) n , Rössel n ( South German ) , Rössl n ( South German )
Greek: ίππος (el) m ( íppos ) , άλογο (el) n ( álogo )
Hebrew: פָּרָשׁ (he) m ( parash )
Hindi: घोड़ा (hi) m ( ghoṛā )
Hungarian: huszár (hu) , ló (hu)
Icelandic: riddari (is) m
Indonesian: kuda (id)
Irish: ridire m
Italian: cavallo (it) m
Japanese: ナイト (ja) ( naito ) ( in Western chess ) , 桂馬 (ja) ( けいま, keima ) ( in shogi )
Javanese: jaran (jv)
Kashmiri: گُر (ks) m ( gur )
Kazakh: ат (kk) ( at )
Khmer: សេះ (km) ( seh )
Korean: 나이트 ( naiteu )
Kyrgyz: ат (ky) ( at )
Lao: ມ້າ ( mā )
Latvian: zirdziņš m
Lithuanian: žirgas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Sprénger (lb) m
Macedonian: коњ m ( konj )
Malay: kuda (ms)
Malayalam: കുതിര (ml) ( kutira ) (cavalry)
Maori: toa (mi)
Marathi: घोडा (mr) m ( ghoḍā )
Middle English: knyght
Middle Persian: SWSYA ( asp )
Mongolian: морь (mn) ( morʹ )
Navajo: hashkééjí naatʼááh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: springer m , hest (no) m
Nynorsk: springar m , hest m
Ojibwe: zhiimaaganish
Persian: اسب (fa) ( asb )
Polish: skoczek (pl) m anim , konik (pl) m anim , koń (pl) m anim
Portuguese: cavalo (pt) m
Romanian: cal (ro) m
Russian: конь (ru) m ( konʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: коњ m , скакач m
Roman: konj (sh) m , skakač (sh) m
Slovak: jazdec m
Slovene: konj (sl) m , skakač m
Spanish: caballo (es) m
Swahili: farasi (sw) , jemadari
Swedish: springare (sv) c , häst (sv) c
Tajik: асп (tg) ( asp )
Tatar: ат (tt) ( at )
Thai: ม้า (th) ( máa )
Turkish: at (tr)
Turkmen: at (tk)
Ukrainian: кінь (uk) m ( kinʹ )
Urdu: گھوڑا m ( ghoṛā )
Uyghur: ئات (ug) ( at )
Uzbek: asp (uz) , ot (uz)
Vietnamese: mã (vi)
Yiddish: ריטער m ( riter ) , שפּרינגער m ( shpringer ) , זקן m ( zokn )
Zazaki: bergir (diq) m
See also
Etymology 2
From Middle English knighten , kniȝten , from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten .
Verb
knight (third-person singular simple present knights , present participle knighting , simple past and past participle knighted )
( transitive ) To confer knighthood upon.
The king knighted the young squire .
( chess , transitive ) To promote (a pawn ) to a knight.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from the verb to knight
Translations
to confer a knighthood upon
See also
References
“knight ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
Middle English
Noun
knight
Alternative form of knyght