cuartel
Chavacano
Etymology
Inherited from Spanish cuartel (“quarters”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cuar‧tel
Noun
cuartel
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French quartier. Doublet of cuara.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwaɾˈtel/ [kwaɾˈt̪el]
- Rhymes: -el
- Syllabification: cuar‧tel
Noun
cuartel m (plural cuarteles)
- quarters (military lodging)
- 2022 October 14, Javier G. Cuesta, “Bielorrusia se prepara para la guerra”, in El País[1], Madrid: Ediciones El País, S.L., →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 May 2026:
- 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.
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- 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
Related terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: kuwartel
Further reading
- “cuartel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
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