Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from French#CUARTELCategory:Spanish terms derived from French#CUARTEL quartier. Doublet of cuaraCategory:Spanish doublets#CUARTEL.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwaɾˈtel/ [kwaɾˈt̪el]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#CUARTELCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#CUARTEL
• Rhymes: -elCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/el#CUARTELCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/el/2 syllables#CUARTEL
• Syllabification: cuar‧tel

Noun

cuartel m (plural cuarteles)Category:Spanish lemmas#CUARTELCategory:Spanish nouns#CUARTELCategory:Spanish countable nouns#CUARTELCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CUARTELCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#CUARTELCategory:Pages with entries#CUARTELCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CUARTEL

1. quarters (military lodging)
   • 2022 October 14, Javier G. Cuesta, “Bielorrusia se prepara para la guerra”, in El País‎:

     Bielorrusia se prepara para la guerra. Cuartel y taller de tanques de los rusos durante meses, el país que gobierna con puño de hierro Alexandr Lukashenko se ha despertado este viernes con la noticia de que está inmerso en una operación antiterrorista contra un enemigo indefinido.

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2. barracks

   Synonym: acuartelamiento

3. military headquarters
4. quarter; mercy (as in, "to give quarter")
   • 1930, Federico García Lorca, Oda a Walt Whitman:

     ¡No haya cuartel!

     No quarter will be given!

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Further reading

• “cuartel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025