Major
In many European languages, the term Major is a military rank, implying seniority at one of usually various levels of rank. For example: "General-Major" or "Major-General", denoting a senior ranking general officer.
"Captain-Major", denoting a mid-level command status officer (immediately superior to the rank of a land-forces Captain but immediately subordinate to the ranks of Colonel or Lieutenant Colonel.
"Sergeant-Major" denotes the most senior sergeant of a large military unit.
In the US Army and US Marine Corps, a Major is typically a staff officer, either a battalion Executive Officer (XO) (second in command), or a battalion staff officer such as the Operations Officer (S-3).
Most often, when the term 'major' occurs unhyphenated, in conjunction with no other indicator of rank, the term refers to the rank just senior to that of a land-forces 'captain'. In some countries, notably in France, an unhyphenated "major" derives from "sergeant-major", a senior-level sub-officer rank.
Links to Major ranks by country
Major (Albania)
Major (Australia)
Major/Majoor (Belgium)
Major (Canada)
Major (Denmark)
Major (Estonia)
Majuri (Finland)
Major (Germany)
Őrnagy (Hungary)
Major (Iceland)
Maggiore (Italy)
Majors (Latvia)
Majoras (Lithuania)
Major (Luxembourg)
Majoor (the Netherlands)
Major (Nigeria)
Major (Norway)
Major (Poland)
Major (Sri Lanka)
Major (Sweden)
Major (United Kingdom)
Major (United States)
Links to ranks equivalent to Major by country
Jagran (جګړن) (Afghanistan)
少校 (Shaoxiao) (PR China)
Bojnik (Croatia)
Ra'Ed (راىد) (Egypt and most Arab League member countries)
Commandant (France)
Tagmatarchis (Ταγματάρχης) (Greece)
Commandant (Ireland)
Rav seren (רב סרן) (Israel)
Shousa (Japan)
소좌 (North Korea)
소령 (South Korea)
Mejar (Malaysia)
Sturmbannführer (Schutzstaffel and paramilitary organisations of Nazi Germany)
Comandante (Spain)
Binbaşı (Turkey)
Thiếu Tá (Vietnam)
Translation
The word "Major" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Bosnian, Czech, Danish, German, Estonian, French, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Simple English, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish.
Translation(s) in other languages: Arabic: رائد (رتبة عسكرية), Azeri: Mayor, Bengali: মেজর, Bulgarian: Майор, Greek: Ταγματάρχης, Spanish: Mayor, Esperanto: Majoro, Croatian: Bojnik, Indonesian: Mayor, Italian: Maggiore, Javanese: Mayor, Lithuanian: Majoras, Dutch: Majoor, Japanese: 少佐, Russian: Майор, Serbian: Мајор, Finnish: Majuri, Vietnamese: Thiếu tá, Turkish: Binbaşı, Ukrainian: Майор, Urdu: اکبر (عہدہ), Chinese: 少校.
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