Comments on: Cool Japanese Word – 十字軍

By: Emma

Emma — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:05:53 +0000

In Russian, крестовый поход.
крест – cross, noun
крестовый – [related to] cross, adjective
поход – trip, journey

By: lyzazel

lyzazel — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:47:06 +0000

In Lithuanian:
kryžiaus žygiai – literally “marches of the cross”

In Portuguese:
a cruzada (same as Spanish, it seems)

By: Piotrek

Piotrek — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:01:58 +0000

In Polish two terms are used:
1) krucjata – it comes from medieval Latin ‘cruciata’, probably through Italian ‘crociata’
2) wyprawa krzyżowa – it translates ‘crucial quest, crucial expedition’ (crucial meaning ‘of the cross, cross-like’ rather than ‘decisive, critical’)

Great blog – I hope you will not mind me following it occasionally.

By: Ramses

Ramses — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:34:44 +0000

@Peter:
I guess it’s Modern Greek. Although there’s a link between Koine and Modern Greek vocabulary, the differences are still huge.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:31:56 +0000

My guess at the Greek word: Σταυροφορίες

I got this by going to the English wikipedia article for the Crusades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades), and then found the corresponding Greek article by clicking the Ελληνικά in the left sidebar.

I’m not studying modern Greek and I doubt this was a word in Koine Greek, so I’m not 100% about this.

By: aabram

aabram — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:54:35 +0000

In Estonian: ristiretk, ristisõda

rist – cross
retk – journey
sõda – war

Two terms are being used interchangeably, though ristisõda, or -war is mostly being used when speaking of historical events, and -journey is being used when speaking figuratively, like in “his personal crusade against X”.

By: Vincent Pace

Vincent Pace — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:38:02 +0000

Chinese is the same as Japanese: 十字军 (shízìjūn).

By: Manuel

Manuel — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:35:37 +0000

In German: Kreuzzug

Kreuz = cross

Zug could be easily translated with “train”, but it is the substantivation of ziehen wich again could be “pull” but is also an older form of “motion/travel/going somewhere”
Where you find you went full circle again why the transport method of a train on tracks is “Zug” in German. Also consider that this use of word will not have originated at the steam age, but a wagon trek of horse-drawn carriages was a Wagenzug. The english word road-train points in exactly this direction
And “train” is from trahere = pull anyways, isn’t it?

By: Ramses

Ramses — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:56:43 +0000

De Kruistocht/De Kruistochten (in Dutch)

Kruis = cross
Tocht = journey

In Spanish:
La cruzada – here you can see the word “cruz” which means “cross”.

In Koine Greek? I don’t know ;-).

By: Noa

Noa — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:55:49 +0000

We say “Haçlı Seferleri” in Turkish.

haç = cross
haçlı = one who has a cross
sefer = campaign
haçlı seferi = crusade
haçlı seferleri = the crusades