милиционер

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ميليتسيونەر
Cyrillic милиционер
Latin militsioner

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian милиционе́р (milicionér), from German Milizionär.

Pronunciation

Noun

милиционер (milisioner)

  1. police officer, policeman, militsia officer (during the Soviet period and in some post-Soviet successor states)
  2. (historical) militiaman

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Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Milizionär.

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Noun

милиционе́р (milicionérm anim (genitive милиционе́ра, nominative plural милиционе́ры, genitive plural милиционе́ров)

  1. police officer, policeman, militsia officer (during the Soviet period and in some post-Soviet successor states)
  2. (historical) militiaman

Usage notes

  • In the Soviet Union and many Eastern Bloc states, as well as in some post-Soviet successor states (until 2011 in Russia), the police was known as мили́ция (milícija). As a result, during the Soviet and early post-Soviet period, the term полице́йский (policéjskij) referred mainly to foreign (Western Bloc) or pre-revolutionary police forces.

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