Crusade

See also: crusade

English

Crusaders

Etymology

Capitalised by Mills, The History of the Crusades (1820) when referring to a specific campaign ("The third and fourth Crusades" p. 95) but not when referring to the general concept ("the clergy successfully preached the crusade through all the German state" p. 87). More at crusade.

Noun

Crusade (plural Crusades)

1. Any of a series of 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 to the Holy Land

• Arabic: حَمْلَة صَلِيبِيَّة‎ f (ḥamla ṣalībiyya)
• Armenian: խաչակրաց արշավանք (hy) (xačʿakracʿ aršavankʿ)
• Catalan: creuada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十字軍東征 (zh), 十字军东征 (zh) (Shízìjūn Dōngzhēng)

• Czech: křižová výprava f, kruciáta (cs) f
• Danish: korstog n
• Dutch: kruistocht (nl) m
• Esperanto: kampanjo
• Estonian: ristisõda (et)
• Finnish: ristiretki (fi)
• French: croisade (fr) f
• Georgian: ჯვაროსნული ლაშქრობა (ǯvarosnuli laškroba)
• German: Kreuzzug (de) m
• Greek: σταυροφορία (el) f (stavroforía)
• Hebrew: מסע צלב (mas'a tzlav) m
• Hungarian: kereszteshadjárat (hu)
• Indonesian: Perang Salib
• Japanese: 十字軍 (じゅうじぐん, jūjigun)

• Korean: 십자군 전쟁 (sipjagun jeonjaeng), 십자군 (ko) (sipjagun)
• Latin: Cruciata f (modern), expeditio sacra m (contemporary usage)
• Malay: Perang Salib
• Norwegian: korstog (no)
• Persian: جنگ‌های صلیبی‎ (janghâye salibi)
• Polish: krucjata (pl) f
• Portuguese: cruzada f
• Romanian: cruciadă (ro) f
• Russian: кресто́вый похо́д (ru) m (krestóvyj poxód)
• Scottish Gaelic: Cogadh na Croise m
• Serbo-Croatian: крсташки поход m, крсташки рат m, križarski pohod, križarski rat, krstaški pohod, krstaški rat
• Slovak: križiak m
• Spanish: cruzada (es) f
• Swedish: korståg (sv) n
• Tagalog: Krusada
• Turkish: haçlılar
• Ukrainian: хресто́вий похі́д m (xrestóvyj poxíd)
• Yiddish: קרייצצוג‎ m (kreitstsug)

See also

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

Further reading

• AskOxford.com