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Combat

Definition: Combat

Combat

Noun

1. An engagement fought between two military forces.

2. The act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets".

Verb

1. Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "combat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Combat

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

To dream of engaging in combat, you will find yourself seeking to ingratiate your affections into the life and love of some one whom you know to be another's, and you will run great risks of losing your good reputation in business. It denotes struggles to keep on firm ground.
For a young woman to dream of seeing combatants, signifies that she will have choice between lovers, both of whom love her and would face death for her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Combat

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Combat is physical conflict involving violence, generally between humans, usually as part of warfare. Combat may be armed or unarmed; it may take place under a certain set of rules or be unregulated.

See also: battle, weapon, military tactics, duel
Combat was also the name of an American television program that aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Combat."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Combat

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

COMBAT

EnglishCOrporate Marketing to overcome the BArriers facing disabled TeleworkersN/A
CODECEnglishCombat Development Experimentation CenterMilitary & Defense

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Combat

Synonyms: armed combat (n), fight (n), fighting (n), battle (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Combat

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Contention

Duel, duello; single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting, digladiation; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms; (warfare).

Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle.

Deterioration

Decayed; Verb: moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved; (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat, out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work; (useless).

Disease

Touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de combat; (useless).

Fatigue

Ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat.

Impotence

Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.

Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf.

Inutility

Vain, empty, inane; gainless, profitless, fruitless; unserviceable, unprofitable; ill-spent; unproductive; hors de combat; effete, past work; (impaired); obsolete; (old); fit for the dust hole; good for nothing; of no earthly use; not worth having, not worth powder and shot; leading to no end, uncalled for; unnecessary, unneeded.

Success

Defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of court.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Combat

English words defined with "combat": aid station, Antagonistical, armor, armourBar shot, Battel, battle, Battle of Britain, beaten, Black and TanChappion, combat injury, combat pay, combat zone, combatant, Combated, Combating, configure, Conflict of laws, conqueredDarrain, division, dressing station, DuelingEddie Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon Rickenbackergladiator, gladiatorial, grapple, grapplinghand-to-hand struggleimpact, injury, Intercombatjoust, Judgment of Godkarateline officerman-of-war, Monomachist, Monomachynoncombatantovercome, overthrown, overwhelmedpitched battle, prochlorperazineRencounter, Rickenbacker, routed, Running fightSciomachy, ship of the line, shock, simulated, Snick and snee, Stour, supporting fire, Sword fighttilt, To look in the face, To throw down the glove, To wage battle, Trial by duelvanquishedWager of battel, Wager of battle, War to the knife, wound, wrestle, wrestling. (references)
Specialty definitions using "combat": combat available aircraft, combat day of supply, combat information, combat readiness, combat ready, combat ready aircraft, COMBAT RIFLE CREWMEMBER, combat service support, COMBAT SURVEILLANCE AND TARGET ACQUISITION NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER, combat survival. (references)
Etymologies containing "combat": Intercombat. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Combat" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (action, battle, bout, clash, combat, conflict, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, scuffle, struggle).

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Modern Usage: Combat

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm a combat correspondent (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

Major Koslova ends the debate about women in combat as far as I'm concerned (The Jackal; writing credit: Chuck Pfarrer)

You got anything that would go with combat boots (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Have you ever been in a combat situation (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

She's not a battleship or a carrier; the Caine is a beaten-up tub. After 18 months of combat it takes 24 hours a day just to keep her in one piece (The Caine Mutiny; writing credit: Herman Wouk; Stanley Roberts)

Lyrics

I've been stranded in the combat zone (You May Be Right; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Clever

No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection. (references; author: unknown)

Combat will occur on the ground between two adjoining maps. (references; author: unknown)

When you're short of everything but the enemy, you're in combat. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Le Premier combat (1972)

Continuons le combat (1971)

Combat Killers (1968)

Le Combat dans l'île (1962)

Combat! (1962)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Combat

DomainTitle

Books

  • Build Your Own Combat Robot (reference)

  • Combat Flight Simulator 3: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets (reference)

  • Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat (reference)

  • Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat (reference)

  • Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Combat

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Photo Album: Combat

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NASA Satellite Data Used Operationally to Help Combat Fires in the West. Credit: NASA.

The printing press used on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER during World War II. The PATHFINDER was staffed by C&GS hydrographers who were the first to survey AND print maps at sea during combat operations. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Staff Sgt. Jeremy Lock, 1st Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., and Senior Airman Efrain Lopez, 4th Combat Camera Squadron, March AFB, Calif., walk off the flight line after a day of photogrpahing the Keen Sword 03 exercise in Tsuki.

Two combat controllers.

After donning the appropriate chemical protective gear, Airman 1st Class Vincent Ouchana and Senior Airman Efrain Espinoza, representing Air Force Space Command, fire downrange and engage pop-up targets during the combat weapons event at Camp Bullis, Texa.

HH-60s provide combat search and rescue.

607th Combat Communications Squadron.

Combat readiness exercise.

RC-135 flies a combat sortie during Operation Allied Force.

C-141s can airlift combat forces, equipment and supplies.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Combat
 

"Boots on wires" by Dmitry N/a
Commentary: "Pair of combat boots on electrical wire."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Combat

AuthorQuotation

Henry Brooks Adams

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Miguel De Cervantes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Napoleon Bonaparte

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

Thomas Jefferson

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is free to combat it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Combat

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

And the success of the combat will be unavoidably the same he there describes it: ----- Libertas pauperis haec est: Pulsatus rogat, & pugnis concisus, adorat, Ut liceat paucis cum dentibus inde reverti.* This will always be the event of such an imaginary resistance, where men may not strike again. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Combat

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The descent was there so precipitous that the English artillery did not see the farm below them at the bottom of the valley, the centre of the combat.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Combat

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Other nasal sprays contain steroids to combat congestion. (references)

Some are broad-spectrum antibiotics that combat a range of germs. (references)

Treatment consists of lifelong antibiotics to combat staphylococcus infections. (references)

Business

Next in order of priority are Navy warships, combat aircraft and the North Norway based 6th Division. (references)

More sophisticated equipment is needed to combat the high increase of fraud and other non-violent crimes within companies. (references)

This remains a subject of ongoing public debate, with some sectors of society in favor of greater use of the military to combat crime. (references)

Children

Vanuatu

Child abuse is not extensive; however, the Government has done little to combat the problem. (references)

Burma

These children are deployed to training camps where they support the military combat forces. (references)

Bolivia

At least two NGO's, Fundacion La Paz and Q'Haruru, have active programs to combat child prostitution. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

In 1998 the Gendarmerie Royale began a campaign to combat such abuses within its ranks. (references)

Macedonia

On June 16, during combat operations, police fired at the mosque at Stracini, although the NLA was not using it as a combat position. (references)

Moldova

The Prosecutor General is investigating and prosecuting the former head of the Department to Combat Corruption and Organized Crime, General Nicolae Alexei, under the calumny law. (references)

Discrimination

Argentina

INADI investigates violations of the antidiscrimination law and carries out educational programs to promote social and cultural pluralism and combat discriminatory attitudes. (references)

Dominican Republic

The law prohibits discrimination based on race and sex; however, such discrimination exists, and the Government seldom acknowledges its existence or makes efforts to combat it. (references)

Nicaragua

The Constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of birth, nationality, political belief, race, gender, language, religion, opinion, national origin, economic condition, or social condition; however, in practice the Government made little or no effort to combat discrimination. (references)

Economic History

Senegal

Customs has initiated an action plan to combat fraud. (references)

Eritrea

Eritrea takes stringent measures to combat corruption. (references)

Bangladesh

It is supported by artillery, armored, and combat units. (references)

Human Rights

Egypt

The Penal Code contains several provisions to combat extremist violence. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Security forces frequently resorted to lethal force to combat widespread crime. (references)

Russia

Under the "Operation Clean Hands" program, MVD officials continued to combat police crime. (references)

Minorities

Portugal

While acknowledging efforts by the Government to combat such acts, the Committee urged that the law be extended to prohibit all racist groups. (references)

Russia

Discrimination against persons from the Caucasus and Central Asia are affected disproportionately by new measures, at both the federal and local levels to combat crime. (references)

Portugal

In an effort to combat discrimination, the NGO, together with the Roma community's representative association, developed a pilot program to teach Roma history and culture in primary schools. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

There is evidence that SPLA-allied militias sometimes used children as young as 12 years of age in combat roles. (references)

CHINA

China is considering adding more license requirements in an effort to combat smuggling of certain agricultural goods. (references)

Belgium

Trafficking in women and children and violence against women remained problems, and the Government took steps to combat them. (references)

Trade

Denmark

Denmark has historically maintained a no-barrier policy, and is often in the lead in the international combat against non-tariff barriers. (references)

Argentina

The objective was to modernize customs service and control, to raise fiscal incomes, and to combat unfair competition through the elimination of under- and over-invoicing. (references)

Switzerland

Officials believe this legislation puts Switzerland among the leading countries in terms of establishing a legal framework with which to effectively combat money laundering. (references)

Travel

Sri Lanka

Combat operations in the North-Central and Eastern parts of the country have been intermittent and often intense. (references)

Women

Israel and the occupied territories

While they cannot be "placed" in combat positions, they are free to volunteer for such units. (references)

Bangladesh

Societal support for both organizations in their attempts to combat acid violence is very strong. (references)

Worker Rights

Uganda

The CID is mandated to combat trafficking. (references)

Ghana

She appealed to parents and fishing communities to combat the practice. (references)

India

Employers in some industries also have taken steps to combat child labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Combat

SpeakerPhrase(s)

John McCain

I would try to be specific, but I also understand, and I know most Americans are aware of the fact that they don't want to betray the sources of their information, because that's a critical aspect of this whole war to combat terrorism.

Rush Limbaugh

Democrats are seriously thinking of buying their own network and think tanks to combat Fox News Channel and conservatives.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Combat

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963One of your planes violates our frontier during this anxious time we are both experiencing, when everything has been put into combat readiness.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969This Nation must make an all-out effort to combat crime.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Four years ago, President Johnson sent American combat forces to South Vietnam.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981For the first time since the communization of Eastern Europe after World War II, the Soviets have sent combat forces into an area that was not previously under their control, into a non-aligned and sovereign state.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989I will forward shortly legislative proposals to help combat terrorism.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Thanks to our Armed Forces' skill and bravery, we prevailed in Kosovo without losing a single American in combat.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Stricter border enforcement will help combat illegal drugs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Combat

"Combat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.28% of the time. "Combat" is used about 1,430 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)50.28%7199,350
Lexical Verb (infinitive)47.42%6789,740
Lexical Verb (base form)2.03%2964,444
Noun (proper)0.21%3202,518
Noun (common)0.07%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,430N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Combat

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "combat".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
GeraN/ABiblical

Combat

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expression: Combat

Expressions using "combat": aerial combat air combat armed combat armored combat vehicle basic combat training battle combat close combat Combat a outrance combat air patrol combat aircraft Combat Applications Group combat area combat arm combat available aircraft combat aviation control center combat boot combat boots combat capability combat capacity combat car combat casualty combat ceiling combat chart combat control team combat day of supply Combat Disorders combat dress combat echelon combat exercise combat fatigue combat gas combat information combat information center combat injury combat intelligence combat jacket combat load combat loading combat means combat mission combat neurosis combat order combat outpost combat patrol combat pay combat pilot combat plane combat power combat readiness combat ready combat ready aircraft combat service support combat ship combat smb. combat soldier combat sport combat support combat survival combat training combat troops combat unit combat worthy combat zone commitment to combat disabled hors de combat out of action Electronic Combat get involved in combat heavy combat hors de combat mortal combat principles of combat progress of combat put hors de combat refuse to combat illness single combat unarmed combat. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "combat": combat-cannibalism, combat-casual, combat-chaplain, combat-effective, combat-jacket, combat-master, combat-ready, combat-trained.

Ending with "combat": non-combat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Combat

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

combat desert

1,023

combat future system

104

combat

683

hand to hand combat

104

mortal combat

582

5 ace combat

101

close combat

345

janes combat simulation

99

combat flight simulator

312

combat knife

97

ace combat 4

289

combat desert mod

95

wilson combat

244

cheat combat mortal

89

ace combat

226

combat flight simulator 2

79

combat boot

225

air combat command

74

combat mission

202

air combat lock modern on

74

mortal combat deadly alliance

196

alliance code combat deadly mortal

67

3 combat flight simulator

182

combat medic

66

4 ace cheat combat

141

gulf war combat

64

combat desert map

135

combat 18

61

alliance cheat combat deadly mortal

135

combat shotgun

61

1942 battlefield combat desert

127

combat sports

58

woman in combat

126

combat hypnotherapy stress

58

combat compensation related special

116

38 combat desert

56

air combat

108

microsoft combat flight simulator

56

combat evolved halo

105

close and combat and 5

52
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Combat

Language Translations for "combat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ndeshje (clash, collision, competition, encounter, fight, fighting, jarring, match, play), luftoj (contend, correct, debate, dispute, fight, militate, oppugn, ramp, stand up for, strive, struggle, thrash about, war, wrestle), luftim (action, battle, correction, engagement, fight, fighting, set to, skirmish, strife, warfare), kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, condemn, contest, contradict, controvert, counter, cross, demur, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, dispute, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, mind, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, recalcitrate, refuse, resist, retort, set one's face against, stick to, stickle, Stonewall, take exception to), betejë (battle, engagement, fight, fighting, warfare). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كافح (battle, contend, contend against, control, fight, hustle, militate, strike, strive, struggle, wrestle), ‏مناجزة (fighting, strife, struggle), ‏موقعة (battle), ‏معركة (action, battle, clash, conflict, encounter, engagement, fighting, fray), ‏ناضل (agonize, buffet, contend, contest, fight, heave, militate, ply, pursue, push, strive, struggle, tug, worry, wrestle), ‏قتال (arms, battle, bout, conflict, hassle, hostilities, warfare), ‏قاوم (counter, fight, hold, hold one's own, hold out, oppose, protest against, resist, set one's face against, stand, struggle, withstand), ‏قاتل (assassin, battle, deadly, engage, fight, killer, lethal, manslayer, murdered, murderer, murderous, vital, war), ‏وقيعة (episode, slander, subversion), ‏حرب (war, warfare), ‏تعارف (battle, become acquainted, introduce oneself), ‏صراع (conflict, contest, fight, hassle, strife, struggle, tussle, warfare, wrestling). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сражение (action, engagement), сражавам се (contend, fight, war), борба (battle, conflict, contest, ding-dong, fight, fighting, grapple, strife, striving, struggle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), битка (battle, fight), бия се (fight, meet, toss, tussle, war, welter). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(fight, seize), 作战 (Battling, tactical). (various references)

   

Czech

  

boj (action, engagement, fight, struggle). (various references)

   

Danish

  

kamplast (combat load), De Forenede Nationers konvention om bekæmpelse af ørkendannelse i de lande,der er ramt af alvorlig tørke og/eller ørkendannelse,særlig i Afrika (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), foelgende forbindelser bruges til at bekaempe meldug: sublimeret svovl, pulveriseret og ventileret svovl, raa ventileret svovl, bundfaeldet svovl og kolloidal svovl (powdered and ventilated sulphurs, precipitated sulphurs and colloidal sulphurs, raw ventilated sulphurs, the following are used to combat oidium : sublimated sulphurs), Foranstaltninger til bekæmpelse af kvindearbejdsløshed (Actions to combat unemployment amongst women), foranstaltninger til overlevelse i kampzonen (combat survival), kampbenklaeder (combat trousers), kampklar (combat ready), bekæmp brand væk fra et beskyttet sted (combat fire out of sheltered position), kampkraft (combat power), taktisk lastning (combat loading), kamppatrulje (combat patrol, fighting patrol), kampstof (chemical warfare agents, combat agent), kampzone (combat zone), Pompidou-gruppen (Cooperation group to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking in drugs, Pompidou Group), raketbombe (combat rocket), Samarbejdsgruppen til bekæmpelse af stofmisbrug og ulovlig handel med stoffer (Cooperation group to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking in drugs, Pompidou Group), kampkort (combat chart). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

het opnemen tegen (contend with, fight, fight against), bestrýden (challenge, contend with, fight, fight against, protest, question). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kontraŭbatali (contend with, fight, fight against). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیکار (Battle, Toil), مبارزه کردن (Conflict, Joust), نبرد (Battle, Conflict, Fray), حرب (War), ستیز (Battle, Struggle, Toil, Warfare), زدوخورد (Battle, Medley, Skirmish, Tilt, Warfare), جنگیدن با, رزم (Battle, War). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

taistelija jotakin vastaan, kamppailu (struggle). (various references)

   

French

  

conflit (conflict, contention, contest), combattre (contend), combat (conflict), se battre (come to blows), lutter (contest, cope), bataille. (various references)

   

German

  

kampf (action, battle, bout, campaign, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, match, scuffle, struggle, tussle), kämpfen (attack, battle, brawl, campaign, contend, fight, fray, grapple, push, skirmish, strive, struggle, to battle, to brawl, to combat, to fight, to tussle, tussle), Bekämpfung (control, spray, spraying, treatment), bekämpfen (antagonize, counteract, fight, to antagonize), begegnen (come across, confront, counter, encounter, face, happen, meet, oppose, resist, respond to, run into, see, to encounter, to meet), angehen (approach, ask, attack, come at, come on, concern, fight, go off, go on, start, start burning, strike, tackle, take off). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μάχη (action, battle, fight). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מלחמה (battle, fight, war, warfare), לחימה (fighting), להלחם (battle, fight, war), קרבי (battle, fighting), קרב (battle, conflict, encounter, fight, match, war). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

küzdelem (bout, contention, contest, fight, fray, pull, scramble, strife, striving, struggle, tussle), harc (action, battle, contention, contest, engagement, fight, fray, set-to, strife, striving, struggle, war), csata (action, battle, engagement, fray, set-to), ütközet (action, battle, engagement, fight, operation). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pertempuran (battle, conflict), pertarungan, mencegah (prevent, prohibited, restrain), berantas (fight (against), remove, wipe out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lottare (battle, conflict, contend, encounter, fight, jostle, strive, struggle, wrestle). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

戦闘 (battle, fight), 実戦 (actual fighting), コントロール理論 (a party, a social, chondriosome, combat team, combine, company, compartment, compatible machine, compiler, condom, condominium, condor, control theory, conversion, conversion lens, convert, converter, converter lens, convertible, Kondratieff cycle). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せんとう (bath-house, battle, cusp, fight, first, head, lead, pinnacle, point, pointed end, public bath, punch, scissors, ship's lamp, spire, starting pitcher, steeple, trampling down, vanguard), コンバット , じっせん (actual fighting, practice, put into practice, solid line). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

전투 (BATTLE, fight, fighting). (various references)

   

Manx

  

troddaney, troddan (campaign, campaigning, contest, fight, fray, match; herd of cattle; pastureland, quarrel), obbraghey noi (countermine), caggey noi (contest, fight against), caggey (battle, campaign, clash, fight, scrap, war). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ombatcay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

zwalczać (contend with, fight, fight against). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

combater (fight, joust, oppose, strike, struggle, wrestle), combate (action, battle, brush, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, joust, rencontre, rencounter, scuffle, set-to, struggle), relativo a combate, peleja (action, game, joust, rencontre, rencounter, scuffle, struggle, tussle), lutar (battle, buffet, conflict, contend, contest, fight, grapple, lute, militate, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, strike, strive, struggle, tug, vie, wrestle), luta (action, assault, brush, campaign, conflict, contest, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, grapple, scuffle, set-to, strife, struggle, tussle, war, wrestling). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

combate (confute, control, dispute, fight, repel), se lupta (contend, exchange blows, fight, grapple, scramble, struggle), luptã (action, affair, battle, contest, efforts, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, match, mix up, quarrel, Stour, strife, striving, struggle, war, warfare), lupta împotriva, bãtãlie (action, battle, engagement, field, fight, show). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сражение (action, battle, fight), сражаться (militate), бороться борьба (struggle, wrestling), бой (action, battle, engagement, fight, fighting, scuffle, struggle). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

còmhraig (fight), còmhrag (a conflict, battle, fight). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

boriti se (fight, struggle, wrestle), borben (militant, scrappy, truculent), borba (action, battle, conflict, contest, fight, fighting, struggle, wrestle), boj (battle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

combatir (battle, fight, oppose), combate (bout, cobat, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, passage of arms, setup, struggle), pelea (battle, broil, bust up, concourse, cut, fight, fighting, hassle, infighting, mix in, mix up, punch-up, quarrel, scene, scrambling, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, shindig, shindy, skirmish, tiff, tussle), luchar contra (attack, battle, fight, wrestle), luchador (combatant, contender, contestant, fertilizer, fighter, Miller, wrestler), de combate (fighting), batallar (fight). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

strid (action, battle, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, discord, dispute, engagement, feud, fight, fray, rapid, scuffle, struggle, torrential, tussle, war), bekämpa (fight, meet, oppose, struggle with). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การสู้รบ (engagement), ต่อสู้ (engage, fight, ruck, tilt), ต่อต้าน (buck, kick against, kick at, match against, oppose, rebel against), ความขัดแย้ง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

savaş açmak (declare war against, dig up the tomahawk, draw the sword, take up the hatchet), savaş (battle, campaign, conflict, crusade, fight, fighting, fray, struggle, war, warfare, wartime), mücâdele etmek (agonize, battle, be at war with, be up against, buffet, compete, crusade, fight, fight a battle, strive, struggle, tussle, war, wrestle), mücâdele (battle, campaign, contest, fight, fighting, fray, hassle, race, scramble, struggle, tug, tug of war, tussle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), dövüşmek (fight, have a fight, scrap), çarpışmak (bump, cannon, clash, collide, come into collision, do battle, encounter, knock together, skirmish), çarpışma (action, bump, clash, collision, conflict, encounter, engagement, foul, impact, rencontre, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, set to, skirmish, smash, smash up). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

вести бій, бій (action, affair, fight, fighting, operation), боротьба (battle, campaign, debate, effort, fight, fighting, grapple, strife, struggle, tussle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), боротися (antagonize, battle, buffet, champion, contend, debate, fight, grapple, militate, oppugn, strive, struggle, take on, tussle, wrestle), бойовий (combatant, combative, fighting, militant, operational), битва (battle, exploit, fight, operation, war), битися (battle, bustle, fight, pulse, scuffle, skirmish, spar, struggle, wrestle). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trận chiến đấu, trận đấu (contest, play), trận đánh (battle, fight, fought), trận. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cyfranc (incident, meeting, story, tale), ornest (bout, contest, duel), brwydro (battle), brwydr (battle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Combat

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

en-en. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

agon, agon, agonia, certamen, certamina, certamine, certamini, certaminibus, certaminis, certaminum, com-, confligere. (