Crusade

See also crusade

English

Crusaders

Etymology

From Middle French croisade (“marked by the Cross”), from Medieval Latin cruciata, past participle of cruciare (“to mark with a cross”), from Latin crux (“cross”)

Proper noun

Crusade (plural Crusades)

1. One of a series of ostensibly religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.

Derived terms

• crusader

Translations

campaigns by Christian forces about Holy Land

• Arabic: حملة صليبية (ar) f
• Armenian: խաչակրաց արշավանք (hy) (xačakrac’ aršavank’) 
• Catalan: creuada f
• Czech: křižová výprava (cs) f, kruciáta (cs) f
• Danish: korstog c
• Dutch: kruistocht (nl) m
• Esperanto: kampanjo
• Estonian: ristisõda (et)
• Finnish: ristiretki (fi)
• French: croisade (fr) f
• Georgian: ჯვაროსნული ლაშქრობა (ka) (ǰvarosnuli lask'roba) 
• German: Kreuzzug (de) m
• Hebrew: מסע צלב (mas'a tzlav) m
• Hungarian: kereszteshadjárat (hu)
• Indonesian: Perang Salib (id)
• Japanese: 十字軍 (ja) (じゅうじぐん, jūjigun)

• Malay: Perang Salib (ms)
• Norwegian: korstog (no)
• Persian: جنگ‌های صلیبی (fa) (janghâye salibi)
• Polish: krucjata (pl) f
• Portuguese: cruzada (pt) f
• Romanian: cruciadă f
• Russian: крестовый поход (krestóvyj poxód) m
• Scottish Gaelic: Cogadh na Croise (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: крсташки поход (sh) m, крсташки рат (sh) m, križarski pohod (sh), križarski rat (sh), krstaški pohod (sh), krstaški rat (sh)
• Slovak: križiak m
• Spanish: cruzada (es) f
• Swedish: korståg
• Turkish: haclilar
• Yiddish: קרייצצוג (yi) (kreitstsug) m

See also

• Christian soldier
• holy war
• janissary
• Knights Templar
• Miles Christi
• Teutonic Knights

External links

• Crusade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• AskOxford.com