Red Army

English

Etymology

Calque of Russian Красная Армия (Krasnaja Armija). The red was the traditional color of the communist movement which was the official ideology of the Soviets at the period.

Proper noun

the Red Army

1. (historical, military) Name of the Soviet army in the period 1918–1946.
2. (historical, informal, military) The Soviet Armed Forces.
3. (historical, military) The Chinese Red Army.
   • 2022 August 30, Donald Kirk, “Could China invade South Korea after Taiwan?”, in The Hill‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 August 2022‎^[2]:

     If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could order his troops into his neighbor with impunity, surely China’s President Xi Jinping might finally decide to recover Taiwan, the island province that has remained staunchly independent ever since Mao Zedong’s Red Army finished his conquest of the mainland in 1949.

4. (informal, military) The Russian Armed Forces, especially the Ground Forces component.

Derived terms

• Red Army man

Translations

name of the Soviet army

• Albanian: Ushtria e Kuqe f (definite)
• Arabic: الْجَيْش الْأَحْمَر m (al-jayš al-ʔaḥmar) (definite)
• Armenian: Կարմիր բանակ (Karmir banak)
• Azerbaijani: Qızıl Ordu
• Belarusian: Чырво́ная а́рмія f (Čyrvónaja ármija)
• Bengali: লাল ফৌজ (lal phōuj)
• Bulgarian: Черве́на а́рмия f (Červéna ármija)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紅軍／红军 (hung⁴ gwan¹)

  Mandarin: 紅軍／红军 (zh) (hóngjūn)

• Czech: Rudá armáda f
• Danish: Den Røde Hær c (definite)
• Dutch: Rode Leger n
• Estonian: Punaarmee
• Finnish: puna-armeija (fi)
• French: armée rouge f
• Georgian: წითელი არმია (c̣iteli armia)
• German: Rote Armee (de) f
• Greek: Κόκκινος Στρατός m (Kókkinos Stratós)
• Hebrew: הַצָּבָא הָאָדֹם f (ha-tsavá ha-'adóm) (definite)
• Hindi: लाल सेना f (lāl senā)
• Icelandic: Rauði herinn m (definite)
• Ingrian: Punain armia, Puna-armia
• Italian: Armata Rossa f
• Japanese: 赤軍 (ja) (せきぐん, Sekigun)
• Kalmyk: Улан Церг (Ulan Tserg)
• Kazakh: Қызыл армия (Qyzyl armiä)
• Korean: 붉은 군대 (Bulgeun gundae)
• Kyrgyz: Кызыл Армия (Kızıl Armiya)
• Latvian: sarkanā armija f
• Lithuanian: raudonoji armija f
• Macedonian: Цр́вена а́рмија f (Cŕvena ármija)
• Malay: Tentera Merah
• Marathi: लाल सेना f (lāl senā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Улаан Арми (Ulaan Armi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Den røde armé m (definite), Den røde hæren m (definite)

  Nynorsk: Den raude hæren m (definite)

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اَرْتِشِ سُرْخ (arteš-e sorx)

• Polish: Armia Czerwona (pl) f
• Portuguese: Exército Vermelho m
• Romanian: Armata Roșie f
• Russian: Кра́сная А́рмия f (Krásnaja Ármija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Цр̀вена̄ а̀рмија f

  Roman: Cr̀venā àrmija (sh) f

• Slovak: Červená armáda f
• Slovene: Rdeča armada f
• Southern Altai: Кызыл Черӱ (Kïzïl Čerü)
• Spanish: Ejército Rojo m
• Swedish: röda armén c
• Tajik: Артиши Сурх (Artiš-i Surx)
• Tatar: Кызыл Армия (Qızıl Armiyä)
• Thai: กองทัพแดง
• Turkish: Kızılordu
• Turkmen: Gyzyl Goşun
• Ukrainian: Черво́на а́рмія (uk) f (Červóna ármija)
• Urdu: سُرْخ فَوج f (surx fauj)
• Uyghur: قىزىل ئارمىيە (qizil armiye)
• Uzbek: Qizil Armiya
• Vietnamese: hồng quân (vi) (紅軍)
• Yiddish: רויטאַרמיי f (roytarmey)

Further reading

• Red Army on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• marryed