Zouave

//zuˈɑv//

Synonyms for "zouave" (12 found)

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Translations

20 translations across 19 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • الزواف noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Catalan

1 entries
  • zuau noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 祖阿夫 noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Czech

1 entries
  • zuáv noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Dutch

1 entries
  • zoeaaf noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • zuavo noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

French

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  • zouave noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

German

1 entries
  • Zuave noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Greek

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  • ζουάβος noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • zuáv noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Ido

1 entries
  • zuavo noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Italian

1 entries
  • zuavo noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Japanese

1 entries
  • ズアーブ兵 noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Korean

1 entries
  • 주아브병 noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Polish

1 entries
  • żuaw noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Romanian

1 entries
  • zuav noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Russian

1 entries
  • зуа́в noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • zȕav noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)
  • зу̏ав noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Spanish

1 entries
  • zuavo noun (a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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The French soldiers, for whom this uniform was patterned and made, were, as a rule, much smaller in stature than the American soldier, and hence the imported zouave uniforms distributed, in many cases, were entirely too short for the many giants in stature in the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment.

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During the Civil War in the United States, some of the Northern Volunteer regiments adpoted ^([sic]) the zouave uniforms and were known as zouaves.

Source: wiktionary

I also engaged a French zouave, named Bornet, belonging to the Third Regiment, whose term of service was just out.

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