Cossack

cossack English thumb|right|Cossacks (military). Alternative forms en cossack en kozak, en Kozak in Ukrainian contexts Etymology en trk From en frm cosaque, from en zlw-mpl Kozak,cosaque 1 from en zle-muk коза́къ, from en qwm قزاق qazaq (whence Armeno-Kipchak qwm խազախ), from en trk-cmn-pro *kazgak, from en trk-pro *kaŕgak provider, ultimately a derivation from en trk-pro *kaŕ- to dig.Cossack en Kazakh. First appears c. 1587 in the writings of George Turberville. Pronunciation en /ˈkɒsˌæk/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cossack.wav Southern England en /ˈkɑsˌæk/ /ˈkɔsˌæk/ GA en Cos sack Noun A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine. A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above). en obsolete A Ukrainian. en derogatory A mercenary, a violent thug: a regular or irregular soldier, police officer or security guard employed to persecute or oppress disfavoured groups, such as Jews or (striking) workers. en Pinkerton en 1865 Interesting facts A Brief History of Coal Mining, Reclamation and Regulation in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection https://web.archive.org/web/20060512060405/http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/minres/reclaimpa/interestingfacts/ABRIEFHISTORYOFCOALMINING.html May 12, 2006 1865 The Coal and Iron Police are authorized by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to maintain order in the coal fields. The miners referred to these private policemen as "Cossacks" and "Yellow Dogs." en 1906 Chapter 3: State Police Called in Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Remembering the Strike for Union in 1906 in Windber, Pennsylvania Mildren Allen Beik http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/speccol/exhibits/remembering/1906%20pamphlet-online/Narr3.htm Southern and eastern European miners and other workers popularly referred to these hated troops as "Cossacks" because they acted like the similarly repressive troops used by the czar against workers in Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and on other occasions. " https://web.archive.org/web/20251228160424/http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/speccol/exhibits/remembering/1906%20pamphlet-online/Narr3.htm 28 December 2025 en 1907 Our Journal 18 ... Pinkertons, Cossacks, militia, spies, etc., speaks well for the men who represent us? If they were not true to their men, would all these forces be arrayed against us? Sure not! Let the weak rail and the malicious slur; the en 1910 George Ross Kirkpatrick War -- what For? 40 Capitalists want soldiers, marines, militia, cossacks, Pinkertons, "coal-and-iron police," and so forth - chiefly for THREE general purposes : FIRST : TO HOLD DOWN the wage-earners and force them to consent to produce a en 1916 United Mine Workers of America United Mine Workers Journal 13 It would be a physical impossibility to give in this article anything near a comprehensive account of the ramifications of this band of legalized ruffians. That would fill volumes. A short sketch will be given, enumerating reliable and well authenticated facts, gathered from court records, public documents of different kinds, personal observation, opinions expressed by public men and representative citizens, at different times when they had personal observation of the Cossacks. The Pinkertons, with their gum-shoe methods, the Coal and Iron Police, the State Militia and State Constabulary, played an important part in these many industrial conflicts. en Jerome Bixby Walter Koenig Ens. Pavel Chekov Day_of_the_Dove Star Trek episode “Day of the Dove” Culver City, Calif. Desilu Studios; distributed by Paramount Television 1969 1969 COMMANDER KANG (Michael Ansara): We have no devil, Kirk. But we understand the habits of yours. I shall torture you to death one by one until your noble captain cries enough. Who will be firstCHEKOV (Walter Koenig): Cossacks! Filthy Klingon murderers! You killed my brother Piotr. The Archanis Four research outpost. A hundred peaceful people massacred! Just like you did here. My brother, you killed my brother. Derived terms en Cossackdom Cossackry Cossack green Cossack hat Cossack Hetmanate Cossack post decossackization gussuk Related terms en Kazakh en Kazakhstan Translations member of a population Albanian: sq kozak m Arabic: ar قُوزَاق m quzāq Armenian: hy կազակ Azerbaijani: az kazak Belarusian: be каза́к m, be каза́чка f Bulgarian: bg каза́к m, bg каза́чка f Buryat: bua хасаг, bua хаһаг Catalan: ca cosac m, ca cosaca f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 哥薩克 gēsàkè Crimean Tatar: crh qazaq Czech: cs kozák m, cs kozáčka f Danish: da kosak c Dutch: nl Kozak m Esperanto: eo kozako Estonian: et kasakas Finnish: fi kasakka French: fr Cosaque mf Georgian: ka კაზაკი German: de Kosak m Greek: el Κοζάκος m Hebrew: he קוזאק m kozak Hindi: hi कोज़ाक, hi कज़ाक, hi कजाक m Hungarian: hu kozák Icelandic: is kósakki m Italian: it cosacco m Japanese: ja コサック kosakku Kalmyk: xal хазг Kazakh: kk казак Khamnigan Mongol: ykh хасаг xasag Korean: ko 카자크 Kyrgyz: ky казак Latvian: lv kazaks m Lithuanian: lt kazokas m Macedonian: mk Козак m Mongolian: mn казак Classical Mongolian: cmg ᠬᠠᠰᠠᠭ Norwegian: Bokmål: nb kosakk m Nynorsk: nn kosakk m Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: cu коꙁакъ m Old East Slavic: orv козакъ m Old Ruthenian: zle-ort козакъ m Ossetian: os хъазах Persian: fa قزاق qazzâq Polish: pl Kozak m, pl Kozaczka f Portuguese: pt cossaco m Punjabi: pa ਕਸਾਕ m Romanian: ro cazac Russian: ru каза́к m, ru коза́к m dated spelling, ru каза́чка f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Козак m Latin: sh Kozak m Slovak: sk kozák m, sk kozáčka f Slovene: sl kozak m Spanish: es cosaco m Swedish: sv kosack c Tagalog: tl Kosako Tajik: tg казак Tatar: tt казак Turkish: tr kazak Turkmen: tk kazak Ukrainian: uk коза́к m, uk коза́чка f Uzbek: uz kazak Vietnamese: vi Cô-dắc Welsh: cy Cosac m Written Oirat: xwo ᡍᠠᠴᠠᡎ Yiddish: yi קאָזאַק m member of a Cossack military unit Armenian: hy կազակ Buryat: bua хасаг, bua хаһаг Catalan: ca cosac m, ca cosaca f Czech: cs kozák m Esperanto: eo kozako Finnish: fi kasakka French: fr cosaque mf German: de Kosak m Hungarian: hu kozák Icelandic: is kósakki m Khamnigan Mongol: ykh хасаг xasag Mongolian: Classical Mongolian: cmg ᠬᠠᠰᠠᠭ Old Ruthenian: zle-ort козакъ m Persian: fa قزاق qazzâq Polish: pl kozak m Portuguese: pt cossaco m Slovak: sk kozák m Tagalog: tl Kosako Turkish: tr kazak Ukrainian: uk коза́к m Yiddish: yi קאָזאַק m, yi קאָזאַקן m-p Macedonian: mk козак m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh козак m Latin: sh kozak m Slovak: sk kozák m Slovene: sl kozak m References Anagrams en acckoss cassock en Ethnonyms Russia Ukraine History of Ukraine History of Russia