English
Etymology
From Middle English crosbowe, crossebowe, equivalent to cross + bow.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɒsbəʊ/
Noun
crossbow (plural crossbows)
- A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.
- A portable ballista that can be held in the hand.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Irish: crosbhogha (calque)
- → Japanese: クロスボウ
- → Welsh: bwa croes (calque)
Translations
mechanised weapon based on the bow
- Ahom: 𑜀𑜂𑜫 (kaṅ)
- Arabic: قَوْس إفْرَنْجِيَّة f (qaws ʔifranjiyya)
- Armenian: արբալետ (hy) (arbalet)
- Asturian: ballesta f
- Basque: balezta
- Belarusian: арбале́т m (arbaljét), самастрэ́л m (samastrél)
- Bulgarian: арбале́т (bg) m (arbalét)
- Burmese: ဒူးလေး (my) (du:le:)
- Buryat: һаали (haali)
- Catalan: ballesta (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 弩 (zh) (nǔ)
- Czech: kuše (cs) f
- Danish: armbrøst (da) c
- Dutch: kruisboog (nl) m
- Esperanto: arbalesto
- Estonian: amb, vibupüss, arbalett, pandpüss
- Finnish: varsijousi (fi), jalkajousi (fi)
- French: arbalète (fr) f
- Galician: bésta (gl) f
- German: Armbrust (de) f
- Alemannic German: Armbruscht f
- Greek: βαλλίστρα (el) f (vallístra)
- Ancient: γαστραφέτης m (gastraphétēs)
- Hebrew: קשת מוצלבת f (késhet mutslévet)
- Hungarian: számszeríj (hu)
- Icelandic: lásbogi m
- Irish: crosbhogha m
- Italian: balestra (it) f
- Japanese: 弩 (ja) (いしゆみ, ishiyumi), クロスボウ (ja) (kurosubō), ボウガン (ja) (bōgan)
- Jarai: hraŏ
- Kazakh: арбалет (arbalet)
- Khmer: ស្នា (km) (snaa)
- Korean: 석궁(石弓) (ko) (seokgung)
- Lao: ໜ້າໄມ້ (nā mai)
- Latin: disputed, possibly arcuballista f or manuballista f; Mediaeval arballista f
- Latvian: stops (lv) m, arbalets m
- Lithuanian: arbaletas m
- Lü: ᦂᦱᧂᧈ (k̇aang¹), ᦒᦓᦴ (thnuu), ᦡᧄᦺᦙᧉ (ḋammay²)
- Luxembourgish: Fitschebou m, Aarmbroscht f
- Macedonian: са́мострел m (sámostrel), та́тарник m (tátarnik)
- Malagasy: arbaleta (mg)
- Maltese: qaws mimdud m
- Marathi: क्रॉसबो m (krŏsbo)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: armbrøst m
- Nynorsk: armbrøst m
- Occitan: arcbalesta f, balèsta (oc) f
- Old Galician-Portuguese: baesta
- Ottoman Turkish: زنبرك (zenberek), چرخ (çarh)
- Persian: کمان زنبورکی (kamân-e zanburaki)
- Polish: kusza (pl) f, samostrzał m
- Portuguese: besta (pt) f
- Romanian: arbaletă (ro) f
- Romansch: balester m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran), ballester m (Sursilvan), balaister m (Puter, Vallader)
- Russian: арбале́т (ru) m (arbalét), самостре́л (ru) m (samostrél)
- Scottish Gaelic: crois-bhogha f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: куша f, самострел m, стреломет m
- Roman: kuša (sh) f, samostrel m, strelomet m
- Shan: ၵၢင်ႇ (shn) (kàang)
- Slovak: kuša (sk) f
- Slovene: samostrel m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: prokawa f
- Upper Sorbian: prokawa f
- Spanish: ballesta (es) f
- Swedish: armborst (sv) n
- Tagalog: pasulo, balyesta
- Thai: หน้าไม้ (th) (nâa-máai)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: tatar yayı, arbalet (tr)
- Ukrainian: арбале́т (uk) m (arbalét), самострі́л m (samostríl)
- Vietnamese: ná (vi), nỏ (vi)
- Walloon: årbalesse (wa) f
- Welsh: bwa croes m
- White Hmong: hneev
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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