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From Middle French battaillon (modern French bataillon).[1]
battalion (plural battalions)
- (military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
- (US, military) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.
- Any large body of troops.
- (by extension) A great number of things.
army unit
- Afrikaans: bataljon
- Albanian: batalion (sq) m
- Arabic: كَتِيبَة f (katība)
- Armenian: գումարտակ (hy) (gumartak)
- Azerbaijani: tabor
- Belarusian: батальён m (batalʹjón), дывізіён m (dyvizijón), дывізыён m (dyvizyjón)
- Bulgarian: батальо́н m (bataljón)
- Burmese: တပ်ရင်း (my) (tap-rang:)
- Catalan: batalló (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 營／营 (zh) (yíng), 大隊／大队 (zh) (dàduì)
- Crimean Tatar: batalyon
- Czech: prapor (cs) m
- Danish: bataljon (da) c
- Dutch: bataljon (nl) n
- Erzya: коцталкс (koctalks)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: pataljon
- Finnish: pataljoona (fi)
- French: bataillon (fr) m
- Middle French: please add this translation if you can
- Georgian: ბატალიონი (baṭalioni)
- German: Bataillon (de) n, Sanitätsbataillon n (medical)
- Greek: τάγμα (el) n (tágma)
- Hebrew: גְּדוּד (he) m (gdud)
- Hindi: बटालियन (hi) m (baṭāliyan)
- Hungarian: zászlóalj (hu)
- Indonesian: batalyon (id), batalion (id)
- Irish: cathlán
- Italian: battaglione (it) m, compagnia (it) f
- Japanese: 大隊 (ja) (だいたい, daitai)
- Kazakh: батальон (batalon)
- Khmer: (please verify) កងវរសេនាតូច (kângôvrôsénéatoch)
- Korean: 대대(大隊) (ko) (daedae)
- Kyrgyz: батальон (ky) (batalon)
- Latvian: bataljons m
- Lithuanian: bataljonas m
- Macedonian: баталјо́н m (bataljón)
- Malay: batalion
- Maori: pātariana, ope taua
- Norman: bataillon m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bataljon (no) m
- Persian: گردان (fa) (gardân), باطالیون (bâtâlyon)
- Polish: batalion (pl) m, baon (pl) m
- Portuguese: batalhão (pt) m
- Romanian: batalion (ro) n
- Russian: батальо́н (ru) m (batalʹón), дивизио́н (ru) m (divizión) (artillery or cavalry)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: батаљон m
- Roman: bataljon (sh) m
- Slovak: prápor m
- Slovene: bataljon (sl) m
- Spanish: batallón (es) m
- Swahili: batalioni
- Swedish: bataljon (sv) c
- Tajik: батальон (batalon), гурдон (gurdon)
- Telugu: పటాలము (te) (paṭālamu)
- Thai: กองพัน (th) (gɔɔng-pan)
- Turkish: tabur (tr)
- Ukrainian: батальйо́н (uk) m (batalʹjón), дивізіо́н m (dyvizión)
- Uzbek: batalon (uz)
- Vietnamese: tiểu đoàn (vi)
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battalion (third-person singular simple present battalions, present participle battalioning, simple past and past participle battalioned)
- To form into battalions.
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
