tiszt

Tiszt is a Hungarian noun meaning "officer." In military, police, and other organized forces, it denotes a person who holds a commissioned rank or otherwise serves in a professional leadership or supervisory role above enlisted personnel. The term is used in formal language and in historical descriptions to refer to the officer corps, commonly called tisztállomány or tisztikar. The plural is tisztek.

In contemporary usage, tiszt refers to commissioned officers and, depending on context, to the group of officers collectively. It contrasts with ordinary soldiers or enlisted personnel, and it appears in official regulations, military reports, and news coverage about armed forces or police leadership. The adjective form tiszti is used to describe things related to officers, such as tiszti kar (the officer corps) or tiszti szolgálat (officer duties).

Historically, the concept of a professional officer corps has been present in Hungarian-language military administration since at least the Austro-Hungarian period, and the term remains standard in modern Hungary for describing the professional officer class.