Definitions For Hetman

Noun

HETMAN (plural HETMANs) (history) A cossack headman or general. {{non-gloss definition, Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).}}

Translations

Belarusian: ге́тман, m, sc=Cyrl Bulgarian: хе́тман, m, sc=Cyrl Chinese: : Mandarin: 蓋特曼, sc=Hani}}, {{t, cmn, 盖特曼 (gàitèmàn, sc=Hani) Czech: hejtman, m Danish: hetman, c Finnish: hetmani Georgian: ჰეტმანი Greek: χετμάνος, m Hungarian: hetman Italian: etmano, m Japanese: ヘトマン (hetoman, sc=Jpan) Korean: 헤트만, sc=Kore Lithuanian: etmonas, m Polish: hetman, m Portuguese: hétmã, m, hétmane, m Romanian: hatman, m Russian: ге́тман, m Serbo-Croatian: : Cyrillic: хетман, m : Roman: hetman, m Spanish: hetman, m Swedish: hetman, c Ukrainian: ге́тьман, m Uzbek: getman

See also

ataman hegumen

Etymology

From {{der, en, pl, hetman}}, probably from {{der, en, gmh, houbetman, }}, heuptman, , commander, from houbet, , heupt, , head, related to Latin caput, , head, + {{der, en, gmh, man, , man}}. Compare modern German Hauptmann, , captain, Haupt, , Mann, . The Polish e in , hetman attests to a borrowing from an east central german dialect, in which {{cog, gmh, -}} -öu- gives -ē-.

Anagrams

Hemant, anthem, mentha, nameth, the man