Red Cross

English

The Red Cross emblem.

Etymology

From red +‎ cross. Compare West Frisian Reade Krús (“Red Cross”), Dutch Rode Kruis (“Red Cross”), German Rotes Kreuz (“Red Cross”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål Røde Kors (“Red Cross”), Swedish Röda Korset (“Red Cross”), Norwegian Nynorsk Raudekrossen (“Red Cross”), Faroese Reyði Krossur (“Red Cross”), Icelandic Rauði krossinn (“Red Cross”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛd ˈkɹɒs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Red Cross

1. (with the) An international humanitarian organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and homeless.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 193:

     ‘De Red Cross is doinʼ all dat kin be done otherwise fuh de sick and de ʼfflicted.’

2. (with the) The symbol of this organization.
3. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
4. A town in North Carolina.

Translations

Red Cross

• Afrikaans: Rooi Kruis
• Albanian: Kryqi i Kuq
• Amharic: ቀይ መስቀል (ḳäy mäsḳäl)
• Arabic: اَلصَّلِيب اَلْأَحْمَر m (aṣ-ṣalīb al-ʔaḥmar)
• Armenian: Կարմիր խաչ (Karmir xačʻ)
• Asturian: Cruz Bermeya (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Qırmızı Xaç
• Bashkir: Ҡыҙыл Тәре (Qïðïl Täre)
• Basque: Gurutze Gorria
• Belarusian: Чырвоны Крыж m (Čyrvóny Kryž)
• Bengali: রেডক্রস (bn) (reḍkros)
• Breton: Kroaz-Ruz
• Bulgarian: Червен кръст (Červen krăst)
• Burmese: ကြက်ခြေနီ (krakhkreni), ကြက်ခြေနီအသင်း (my) (krakhkrenia.sang:)
• Catalan: Creu Roja f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅十字 / 红十字 (zh) (Hóngshízì), 紅十字會 / 红十字会 (zh) (Hóngshízìhuì)

• Chuvash: Хӗрлӗ Хӗрес (Hĕrlĕ H̬ĕres)
• Crimean Tatar: Qızıl Haç
• Czech: Červený kříž m
• Danish: Røde Kors n
• Dutch: Rode Kruis (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ruĝa Kruco
• Estonian: Punane Rist
• Faroese: Reyði Krossur m
• Finnish: Punainen Risti
• French: Croix-Rouge (fr) f
• Galician: Cruz Vermella (gl) f
• Georgian: წითელი ჯვარი (c̣iteli ǯvari)
• German: Rotes Kreuz (de) n
• Greek: Ερυθρός Σταυρός (el) m (Erythrós Stavrós)
• Hebrew: הצלב האדום m (hatsláv haadóm)
• Hindi: रेड क्रॉस (reḍ krŏs)
• Hungarian: Vöröskereszt (hu)
• Icelandic: Rauði krossinn m
• Ido: Reda Kruco (io)
• Indonesian: Palang Merah
• Irish: Cros Dhearg f, Cumann na Croise Deirge m
• Italian: Croce Rossa (it) f
• Japanese: 赤十字 (ja) (せきじゅうじ, Sekijūji), 赤十字社 (ja) (せきじゅうじしゃ, Sekijūji-sha)
• Kalmyk: Улан Заһлма (Ulan Zağlma)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Karakalpak: Qızıl Krest
• Kazakh: Қызыл Крест (Qızıl Krest)
• Khmer: ក្រុមកាកបាទក្រហម (krom kaak-baat krɑhɑɑm)
• Korean: 적십자(赤十字) (ko) (Jeoksipja), 적십자사(赤十字社) (ko) (Jeoksipjasa), 적십자회(赤十字會) (Jeoksipjahoe)
• Kumyk: Къызыл Хач (Qızıl Xaç)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Xaça Sor (ku) f

• Latvian: Sarkanais Krusts m
• Lithuanian: Raudonojo Kryžiaus m
• Luxembourgish: Rout Kräiz
• Macedonian: Црвен крст m (Crven krst)
• Malay: Palang Merah
• Maltese: Is-Salib l-Aħmar m
• Māori: Rīpeka Whero
• Mongolian: Улаан Загалмай (Ulaan Zagalmai)
• Navajo: łichííʼ ałnáʼásdzoh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Røde Kors n

  Nynorsk: Raudekrossen m

• Persian: صلیب سرخ (salib-e sorx)
• Polish: Czerwony Krzyż (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cruz Vermelha f
• Romanian: Crucea Roșie
• Romansh: Crusch Cotschna
• Russian: Кра́сный Крест m (Krásnyj Krest)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Црвени криж m, Црвени крст m

  Latin: Crveni križ m, Crveni krst m

• Slovak: Červený kríž m
• Slovene: Rdeči križ (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Cerwjena kśica f

  Upper Sorbian:

• Southern Altai: Кызыл Крест (Kïzïl Krest)
• Spanish: Cruz Roja (es) f
• Swedish: Röda Korset n
• Tagalog: Krus na Pula, Krus Roha
• Tajik: Салиби Сурх (Salib-i Surx)
• Tatar: Кызыл Хач (Qızıl Xaç)
• Telugu: రెడ్‌క్రాస్ (te) (reḍ‌krās)
• Thai: กาชาด (th) (gaa-châat)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tok Pisin: Ret Kros
• Turkish: Kızıl Haç
• Turkmen: Gyzyl Haç
• Ukrainian: Червоний Хрест m (Červonyj Xrest)
• Vietnamese: Chữ thập đỏ
• Volapük: (vehicle) redakrod, (flag) redakrodastän
• Welsh: Y Groes Goch
• Yakut: Кыһыл Кириэс (Kïhïl Kiries)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Red Crescent
• Red Magen David

Further reading

• Red Cross on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Red Cross”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Red Cross”, in Merriam-Webster Online, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1996–present.
• “Red Cross”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Red Cross”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “the Red Cross” (US) / “the Red Cross” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.