crossbow

English

A crossbow

Alternative forms

• xbow (informal)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkrɒsbəʊ/

Noun

crossbow (plural crossbows)

1. A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, which fires bolts.

Derived terms

• crossbowman

Translations

mechanised weapon based on the bow

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: ballesta (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弩 (cmn) (nǔ)

• Czech: kuše (cs) f
• Danish: armbrøst (da) c
• Dutch: kruisboog (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: varsijousi (fi), jalkajousi (fi)
• French: arbalète (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• German: Armbrust (de) f
• Greek: βαλλίστρα (el) (vallístra) f
• Hungarian: számszeríj (hu)
• Icelandic: lásbogi (is) m
• Interlingue: arbalest (ie)
• Irish: crosbhogha (ga) m
• Italian: balestra (it) f
• Japanese: 石弓 (ja) (いしゆみ, ishiyumi)
• Khmer: ស្នា (km) (snaa)
• Korean: 석궁 (ko) (seokgung) (石弓 (ko))
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can

• Lithuanian: arbaletas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: самострел (mk) (sámostrel) m
• Norwegian: armbrøst (no) m
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Old Portuguese: baesta
• Persian: کمان زنبورکی (fa) (kamân-e zanburaki)
• Polish: kusza (pl) f
• Portuguese: besta (pt) f
• Romanian: arbaletă (ro) f
• Romansch: balester (rm) m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran), ballester (rm) m (Sursilvan), balaister (rm) m (Puter, Vallader)
• Russian: арбалет (ru) (arbalét) m, самострел (ru) (samostrél) m
• Scottish Gaelic: crois-bhogha (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: куша (sh) f, самострел (sh) m, стреломет (sh) m

  Roman: kuša (sh) f, samostrel (sh) m, strelomet (sh) m

• Slovak: kuša (sk) f
• Slovene: samostrel (sl) m
• Spanish: ballesta (es) f
• Swedish: armborst (sv) n
• Walloon: årbalesse (wa) f
• Welsh: bwa croes (cy) m
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• arbalest

• Wikipedia article on crossbow