Kaiser

See also: kaiser, káiser, and kàiser

English

Wilhelm II - the last Kaiser of Germany from 1888 until his abdication in 1918.

Alternative forms

• kaiser
• keasar (obsolete)
• kesar (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English kayser, from Old High German keisar (“emperor”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz. The native Old English descendant of that Proto-Germanic word was cāser (“emperor”), but the shape of Middle English kayser (“emperor”) (versus the expected *caser, *coser) suggests it was borrowed from another Germanic language rather than inherited, and the modern English spelling and sense seem to be modified after modern German rather than a direct continuation of Middle English. Compare tsar, which was borrowed from Slavic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪzə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪzɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
• Homophone: Caesar (Latinate)

Noun

Kaiser (plural Kaisers)

1. An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary (1806–1918), or the German Empire (1871–1918) — often specifically Wilhelm II.
2. (by extension) Any emperor or autocrat, or one who attempts to be one.
   • 1915, T. P.'s Weekly - Volume 26, page 444:

     And Black Ivo is a veritable Kaiser.

   • 1916, The Provocation of France, page 147:

     […] that President Poincare, the first servant of France, is still Louis XIV, the former War-Lord, the Kaiser of France […]

   • 1919, Far Eastern Political Science Review - Volume 1, page 49:

     Senator Sherman vigorously assailed the Shantung agreement, declaring that it would make the Mikado a veritable Kaiser of the Far East and alienate the sympathies of the 400,000,000 Chinese – from the people of the United States.

   • 1929, Through the Leaves, page 489:

     […] which, from the banking point of view, the National City Bank is a veritable kaiser.

3. A Kaiser roll.

Derived terms

• Kaiser-Wilhelmsland

 

Translations

German Emperor — see also emperor

• Albanian: kaizër m
• Arabic: قَيْصَر m (qayṣar)
• Armenian: կայզեր (hy) (kayzer)
• Azerbaijani: kayzer
• Belarusian: ка́йзэр m (kájzer)
• Bulgarian: ка́йзер m (kájzer)
• Catalan: kàiser (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凱撒／凯撒 (zh) (kǎisā, kǎisà), 德意志皇帝 (Déyìzhì huángdì)

• Czech: císař (cs) m
• Danish: kejser (da) c
• Dutch: keizer (nl) m
• Estonian: keiser (et)
• Finnish: keisari (fi)
• French: kaiser (fr) m, empereur (fr) m
• Georgian: კაიზერი (ḳaizeri)
• German: Kaiser (de) m, Kaiserin (de) f
• Greek: κάιζερ (el) m (káizer)
• Hindi: काइज़र m (kāizar), कैसर (hi) m (kaisar), क़ैसर m (qaisar)
• Hungarian: császár (hu)
• Icelandic: keisari (is) m
• Italian: kaiser m
• Japanese: カイザー (ja) (kaizā)
• Kazakh: кайзер (kaizer)
• Korean: 카이저 (kaijeo)
• Kyrgyz: кайзер (ky) (kayzer)
• Latvian: ķeizars m
• Lithuanian: kaizeris (lt) m
• Macedonian: кајзер m (kajzer)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: keiser (no) m

• Pashto: قيصر (ps) m (qaysár)
• Persian:

  Dari: قَیْصَر (fa) (qaysar), خُسْرَوْ (fa)

  Iranian Persian: قِیْصَر (fa) (ğeysar), خُسْرُوْ (fa)

• Polish: kajzer m
• Portuguese: cáiser (pt) m, kaiser (pt) m
• Romanian: kaiser m
• Russian: ка́йзер (ru) m (kájzer), ка́йзер (ru) m (kájzɛr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏јзер m

  Roman: kȁjzer (sh) m

• Slovak: cisár (sk) m
• Slovene: cesar (sl) m
• Spanish: káiser (es) m
• Swedish: kejsare (sv) c
• Tagalog: Kayser
• Thai: ไคเซอร์
• Turkish: kayser (tr)
• Turkmen: kaýzer
• Ukrainian: ка́йзер (uk) m (kájzer), (particularly the Austro-Hungarian emperor) ці́сар (uk) m (císar)
• Urdu: قَیْصَر m
• Uzbek: kayzer
• Yiddish: קייסער m (keyser)

Proper noun

Kaiser

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Kaiser is the 1,039^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 33,480 individuals. Kaiser is most common among White (93.15%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Arkies

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Kaiser, from German Kaiser, which see.

Proper noun

Kaiser

1. a male given name from English [in turn from German]

German

Alternative forms

• Kayser, Käiser, Käyser, Keiser, Keyser (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German keiser, from Old High German keisar, keisur, from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar (“emperor”), borrowed from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Cäsar and Zar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪ̯zər/, [ˈkaɪ̯.zɐ]

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Kai‧ser

Noun

Kaiser m (strong, genitive Kaisers, plural Kaiser, feminine Kaiserin)

1. emperor (ruler of certain monarchies; highest monarch)

Declension

Declension of Kaiser [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Kaiser	die	Kaiser
genitive	eines	des	Kaisers	der	Kaiser
dative	einem	dem	Kaiser	den	Kaisern
accusative	einen	den	Kaiser	die	Kaiser

Derived terms

• Kaiser von China
• Kaiserkrone
• kaiserlich
• Kaiserreich
• Kaisersemmel
• kaisertreu
• Kaisertum

 

Descendants

• → Russian: ка́йзер (kájzer, kájzɛr)
• → Upper Sorbian: kejžor

Proper noun

Kaiser m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Kaisers or (with an article) Kaiser, feminine genitive Kaiser, plural Kaisers or Kaiser)

1. a common surname

Proper noun

der Kaiser m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Kaisers)

1. (soccer, colloquial) nickname of Franz Beckenbauer
   • 2024 February 27, Gerald Fricke, “Der Beckenbavatar”, in taz‎^[1]:

     In Mexiko kam der virtuelle Beckenbauer aber noch nicht zum Einsatz, wegen der dünnen Luft („Montezumas Rache“). Und aus Datenschutzgründen nicht bei der Heim-EM 1988 in Deutschland. Einen ersten unbemerkten Kurzzeiteinsatz des Kaisers als Hologramm gab es bei der WM 1990, im Spiel der Deutschen gegen die Tschechoslowakei (1:0).

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “Kaiser” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Kaiser” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Kaiser” in Duden online
• Kaiser on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Anagrams

• Karies

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaɪ̯sɐ/

Noun

Kaiser m (plural Kaiser)

1. emperor

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary