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In the Romani language the word for comrade is Dosti as seen in the phrase Te vestinel o dosti Tito, te vestinena o jugoslovenske manusha or Long live comrade Tito and long live the Yugoslav people. In Romanian the exact translation is camarad , a neologism introduced from French in the 19th century, which does not bear a political connotation ...
The use of tongzhi over tongxinglian roughly parallels the use of "gay" over "homosexual" in English-language discourse. [ citation needed ] Although the term initially referred to gay ( 男同志 , 'male tongzhi ' ) and lesbian ( 女同志 , 'female tongzhi ' ) people, in recent years its scope has gradually expanded to cover a wider spectrum ...
This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...
Comrades, a 1921 German silent film; Comrades, a 1928 American silent film; Comrades, a 1986 British historical drama film; Comrades (The Americans), the first episode of the second season of the television series The Americans; Comrades: Almost a Love Story, a 1996 Hong Kong film; Comrades (band), an American rock band
This is a list of personal titles arranged in a sortable table. They can be sorted: Alphabetically; By language, nation, or tradition of origin; By function. See Separation of duties for a description of the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative functions as they are generally understood today.
Operation Barbarossa is the English rendering of the German "Unternehmen Barbarossa." Barbarossa or `Redbeard' (Frederick I) lived from 1123 AD to 1190 and was both King of Germany and Holy Roman emperor from 1152–90. He made a sustained attempt to subdue Italy and the papacy, but was eventually defeated at the battle of Legnano in 1176.
German socialist, however, preferred to address each other with the synonym "Genosse". When those originally Russian texts were translated from German into English, "Kamerad" was translated as "comrade", which is an old English word meaning the exactly the same thing: "friend", "companion" or "colleague".
Volksgenosse (plural Volksgenossen) is a German language term meaning a fellow member of a community or compatriot (translated literally as people's comrade). The word was recorded as early as 1798 and its usage grew within the Völkisch movement of German ethnic nationalism, which led to its use to denote a person of the same "blood community ...