Talk:Scharführer

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The term Schar means "squad" or "troop", a borrowing into German of the Turkish çeri, as in Yeniçeri (Janissary, literally "new troops").

What an utter nonsense the use of the word stems from times when the turks were still in central asia namely Old High German Scara. Ill remove it. See Deutsches Wörterbuch: 2) schar als altes heereswort, zur bezeichnung einer heeresabtheilung, einer bestimmten anzahl krieger: ahd. scara, turba, ordo, tribus, phalanx, legio, cohors, agmen, acies militum GRAFF 6, 530 fg.; der mir duodecim legiones, zwelf scara angelorum gâbe ze helfo, ube ih uuolti. NOTKER ps. 87, 5. der ahd. gebrauch setzt sich auch ins mhd. fort (vgl. SCHULTZ höf. leben 2, 275), und ebenso schlieszlich ins nhd., wo schar die einem befehlshaber unterstellte gröszere oder kleinere truppenabtheilung bedeuten kann, immerhin nur auszerhalb der sprache der fachleute (schar, schaar, multitudo certa, eine abtheilung unter dem kriegs-volk, ist im kriegs-gebrauch veraltet, wird aber sonsten noch gefunden. --Tresckow (talk) 01:51, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]