cuartel
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Spanish cuartel (“quarters”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuartel
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French quartier. Doublet of cuara.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuartel m (plural cuarteles)
- quarters (military lodging)
- 2022 October 14, Javier G. Cuesta, “Bielorrusia se prepara para la guerra”, in El País[1]:
- Bielorrusia se prepara para la guerra. Cuartel y taller de tanques de los rusos durante meses, el país que gobierna con puño de hierro Alexandr Lukashenko se ha despertado este viernes con la noticia de que está inmerso en una operación antiterrorista contra un enemigo indefinido.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- barracks
- Synonym: acuartelamiento
- military headquarters
- quarter; mercy (as in, "to give quarter")
- 1930, Federico García Lorca, Oda a Walt Whitman:
- ¡No haya cuartel!
- No quarter will be given!
- ¡No haya cuartel!
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: kuwartel
Further reading
[edit]- “cuartel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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