Wehrmacht en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ˈvɛə(ɹ)ˌmɑːkt/
- /ˈvɛə(ɹ)ˌmɑːxt/
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Wehrmacht, from wehren (“to defend”) + Macht (“might, force”).
Meanings
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(Nazism, historical) The German armed forces from 1935 to 1945.
Oh, yes. The Wehrmacht. Certainly the greatest fighting force ever assembled. Swift, ruthless.
1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders:In the end the Allies battered the Wehrmacht back to the Reich and ended whatever chance the Germans had of escaping their fate.
1996, Robert Doughty, World War II: Total Warfare Around the Globe, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 106:
Coordinates
Sturmabteilung · Schutzstaffel · Waffen-SS
Deriveds
Translations (23)
mk Вермахт (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · cmn 德意志國防軍 /德意志国防军 (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · sh Vermaht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · da værnemagt (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · ar فِيرْمَاخْت (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · ur ویرْماخْٹ (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · sh Вермахт (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · ru Ве́рмахт (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · fr Wehrmacht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · et veermaht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · fa-ira وِرْماخْت (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · uk Ве́рмахт (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · be Вэ́рмахт (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · bg Ве́рмахт (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · hy Վերմախտ (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · cmn 國防軍 /国防军 (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · de Wehrmacht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · be Ве́рмахт (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · et Wehrmacht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · hi वेरमाख़्ट (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · mr वेह्रमाख्ट (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · ka ვერმახტი (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945) · pl Wehrmacht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945)