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hussar的意思

hussar

英 [hʊ'zɑː] 美 [hə'zɑr]
  • n. 轻骑兵(以制服华丽著称)
  • n. (Hussar)人名;(英)赫萨;(捷、罗)胡萨尔

hussar

中文词源


hussar 旧时的轻骑兵

来自匈牙利语huszar,轻骑兵,也指强盗,来自PIE*kers,跑,词源同horse,current,charge.

英文词源


hussar
hussar: [15] Ultimately, hussar is the same word as corsair. Its remote ancestor is Italian corsaro, which was borrowed via Old Serbian husar into Hungarian as huszár. This originally retained the meaning of corsair, ‘plunderer’, but gradually developed into ‘horseman’, and it was as ‘Hungarian horseman’ that English borrowed it.
=> corsair
hussar (n.)
1530s, from German Husar, from Hungarian huszár "light horseman," originally "freebooter," from Old Serbian husar, variant of kursar "pirate," from Italian corsaro (see corsair). Bodies of light horsemen organized in Hungary late 15c., widely imitated elsewhere in Europe.