"Saracen" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsæɹəˌsən/ Forms: Saracens [plural]
Etymology: From Late Latin Saracenus, from Ancient Greek Σαρακηνός (Sarakēnós) - *Saraka[?] + -ινος. The source of the Greek has long been debated. In the 17th-19th century the most widely accepted theory derived it from Arabic شَرْقِيِّين (šarqiyyin, “easterners”). Since the Sarakenoi lived to the east of most Semitic peoples of the time. Some authors in the 15th-17th centuries dervied it from Arabic سَارِقُون (plunderers) (sariqun), as mentioned in wikipedia Saracen. A yet older theory from the 4th century CE (e.g. Eusebius), connected it to biblical Sarah, claiming that the progeny of Hagar had chosen that name to imitate the nobler roots of Israelites. This is probably the source of the pejorative use of the term, and its wide currency Two theories based on place-names point at Saraka in Arabia, or Sarakēnē in Arabia Petrea. The latter, apparently in Sinai, and may be related to the Bedouin tribe Sawārke/Sawārika. According to this theory this was the first Arabic group with whom the Greek writers from Alexandria would have sustained contacts, and it served as a type that was later generalized to all Arabic groups. Etymology templates: {{derived|en|LL.|Saracenus}} Late Latin Saracenus, {{derived|en|grc|Σαρακηνός}} Ancient Greek Σαρακηνός (Sarakēnós), {{derived|en|ar|شَرْقِيِّين||easterners|tr=šarqiyyin}} Arabic شَرْقِيِّين (šarqiyyin, “easterners”), {{der|en|ar|سَارِقُون|tr=plunderers}} Arabic سَارِقُون (plunderers), {{root|en|ar|ش ر ق}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} Saracen (plural Saracens)
  1. A member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE, who were specifically distinct from Arabs. Translations (member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE): սարակինոս (sarakinos) (Armenian), Saracén [masculine] (Czech), Sarrazin [masculine] (French), Sarrasin [masculine] (French), Sarazene [masculine] (German), Saracen [masculine] (Polish), sarraceno [masculine] (Portuguese), saracinu [masculine] (Sicilian), saracina [feminine] (Sicilian), sarraceno [masculine] (Spanish), sarracena [feminine] (Spanish), saracen [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Saracen-en-noun-qvBnmLXi Categories (other): Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Sicilian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 35 16 10 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 36 15 10 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 36 16 6 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 34 16 9 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Sicilian translations: 33 17 10 40 Disambiguation of 'member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE': 92 2 2 3
  2. (dated) A Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades. Tags: dated Translations (Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades): սարակինոս (sarakinos) (Armenian), Sarrazin [masculine] (French), Sarrasin [masculine] (French), სარკინოზი (sarḳinozi) (Georgian), Saracen [masculine] (Polish), сараци́н (saracín) (Russian), saracinu [masculine] (Sicilian), maumittanu [feminine] (Sicilian), sarraceno [masculine] (Spanish), sarracena [feminine] (Spanish), saracen [common-gender] (Swedish), Sarazen (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-Saracen-en-noun-iBAhehIn Categories (other): Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Sicilian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 35 16 10 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 36 15 10 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 36 16 6 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 34 16 9 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Sicilian translations: 33 17 10 40 Disambiguation of 'Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades': 13 74 4 9
  3. (dated) A pirate in the Mediterranean. Tags: dated Translations (pirate in the Mediterranean): saracinu [masculine] (Sicilian), saracina [feminine] (Sicilian), turcu [masculine] (Sicilian), turca [feminine] (Sicilian)
    Sense id: en-Saracen-en-noun-82puWLCF Categories (other): Terms with Sicilian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Sicilian translations: 33 17 10 40 Disambiguation of 'pirate in the Mediterranean': 3 2 94 1
  4. A type of six-wheeled armoured personnel carrier.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Sarcen [misspelling] Related terms: Saracenic, sarsen, sarsen stone

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      "expansion": "Late Latin Saracenus",
      "name": "derived"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "Σαρακηνός"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek Σαρακηνός (Sarakēnós)",
      "name": "derived"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "شَرْقِيِّين",
        "4": "",
        "5": "easterners",
        "tr": "šarqiyyin"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic شَرْقِيِّين (šarqiyyin, “easterners”)",
      "name": "derived"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "سَارِقُون",
        "tr": "plunderers"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic سَارِقُون (plunderers)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "ش ر ق"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Late Latin Saracenus, from Ancient Greek Σαρακηνός (Sarakēnós) - *Saraka[?] + -ινος. The source of the Greek has long been debated. In the 17th-19th century the most widely accepted theory derived it from Arabic شَرْقِيِّين (šarqiyyin, “easterners”). Since the Sarakenoi lived to the east of most Semitic peoples of the time. Some authors in the 15th-17th centuries dervied it from Arabic سَارِقُون (plunderers) (sariqun), as mentioned in wikipedia Saracen. A yet older theory from the 4th century CE (e.g. Eusebius), connected it to biblical Sarah, claiming that the progeny of Hagar had chosen that name to imitate the nobler roots of Israelites. This is probably the source of the pejorative use of the term, and its wide currency Two theories based on place-names point at Saraka in Arabia, or Sarakēnē in Arabia Petrea. The latter, apparently in Sinai, and may be related to the Bedouin tribe Sawārke/Sawārika. According to this theory this was the first Arabic group with whom the Greek writers from Alexandria would have sustained contacts, and it served as a type that was later generalized to all Arabic groups.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Saracens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Saracenic"
    },
    {
      "word": "sarsen"
    },
    {
      "word": "sarsen stone"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE, who were specifically distinct from Arabs."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Sinai",
          "Sinai"
        ],
        [
          "Arabia",
          "Arabia"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Muslim",
          "Muslim"
        ],
        [
          "Crusades",
          "Crusades"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pirate in the Mediterranean."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pirate",
          "pirate"
        ],
        [
          "Mediterranean",
          "Mediterranean"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A pirate in the Mediterranean."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A type of six-wheeled armoured personnel carrier."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "armoured personnel carrier",
          "armoured personnel carrier"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsæɹəˌsən/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "misspelling"
      ],
      "word": "Sarcen"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "sarakinos",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "word": "սարակինոս"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Saracén"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sarrazin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sarrasin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sarazene"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Saracen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sarraceno"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saracinu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "saracina"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sarraceno"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sarracena"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "saracen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "sarakinos",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "word": "սարակինոս"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sarrazin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sarrasin"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sarḳinozi",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "word": "სარკინოზი"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Saracen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "saracín",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "word": "сараци́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saracinu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maumittanu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sarraceno"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sarracena"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "saracen"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Arab or any Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades",
      "word": "Sarazen"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "pirate in the Mediterranean",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saracinu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "pirate in the Mediterranean",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "saracina"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "pirate in the Mediterranean",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "turcu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "pirate in the Mediterranean",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "turca"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Saracen"
  ],
  "word": "Saracen"
}

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