Red Cross

English

The Red Cross emblem.

Proper noun

Red Cross

1. 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. 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)
• Azerbaijani: Qırmızı Xaç
• Bashkir: Ҡыҙыл Тәре (Qıźıl Təre)
• Basque: Gurutze Gorria
• Belarusian: Чырвоны Крыж m (Čyrvóny Kryž)
• Breton: Kroaz-Ruz
• Bulgarian: Червен кръст (Červen krǎst)
• 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: Хĕрлĕ Хĕрес (Hĕrlĕ Hĕres)
• 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 (Qyzyl Krest)
• Khmer: ក្រុមកាកបាទក្រហម (krom kaak-baat krɑhɑɑm)
• Korean: 적십자(赤十字) (ko) (jeoksipja), 적십자사(赤十字社) (ko) (jeoksipjasa)
• 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
• Maori: Rīpeka Whero
• Mongolian: Улаан Загалмай (Ulaan Zagalmaj)
• 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
• Romansch: Crusch Cotschna
• Russian: Кра́сный Крест m (Krásnyj Krest)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Црвени криж m, Црвени крст m

  Roman: Crveni križ m, Crveni krst m

• Slovak: Červený kríž m
• Slovene: Rdeči križ (sl) m
• Spanish: Cruz Roja (es) f
• Swedish: Röda Korset n
• Tagalog: Krus na Pula
• 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 (Kıhıl Kiries)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Red Crescent

Further reading

• Red Cross on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Red Cross”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Red Cross”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 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.
• “the Red Cross” (US) / “the Red Cross” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.