esaul

English

Alternative forms

osaul
yesaul

Etymology

From Russian есау́л (jesaúl), Ukrainian осаву́л (osavúl).

Noun

esaul (plural esauls)

(now historical) The head of a group or unit of Cossacks.
- 1833, The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 11, p. 394:
  Some four months after this event, a smart Yesaul, at the head of a party of Kozaks, on the high road to Nishnei Novogorod perceives a poor fellow resting himself upon a bank.
- 1926, Constance Garnett, translating Nicolai Gogol, ‘A Terrible Revenge’:
  ‘There is no order in the Ukraine: the colonels and the esauls quarrel like dogs: there is no chief over them all.’
- 2011, Allan Mallinson, On His Majesty's Service, page 122:
  When Hervey had first learned what was the strength of the garrison, he asked the esaul, the Cossacks' captain. why there was only a squadron (sotnia) of them, two hundred lances […].

Translations

(now historical) the head of a group or unit of Cossacks

Azerbaijani: yasavul
Belarusian: есаву́л m (jesavúl)
Georgian: იასაული (iasauli)
Greek: γιεσαούλ m (giesaoúl)

Russian: есау́л (ru) m (jesaúl)
Ukrainian: осаву́л m (osavúl)

Anagrams

EULAs, Laues, saule

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