gendarme
‘French military police’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. gens d'arm < F.gendarme ‘mounted trooper’ < gens d'armes ‘men at arms’ < gens (plural of gent) + armes < O.F. armes ‘arms, weapons, war, warfare’ < Lat. arma ‘weapons, tools, implements (of war)’ < ar(ə)mo- < aam < ar- < Tamil ār