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

See also

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

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: please add this translation if you can 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. Serbian: крсташки поход (sr) m., крсташки рат (sr) m. Serbo-Croatian: 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.

External links

• Crusade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• AskOxford.com