swastika

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈswɒstɪkə/|/ˈswɒstəkə/    美 /ˈswɑstɪkə/|/ˈswɑstəkə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, but now mainly seen and used in the West (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of Nazism and fascism. countable
    — This was signed by Dana Da, who added pentacles and pentagrams, and a crux ansata, and half-a-dozen swastikas, and a Triple Tau to his name, just to show that he was all he laid claim to be.
  2. Nazi rule. metonymically,uncountable
    — "Is that what you think of me? I believe in the Grail, not the Swastika!"

词形变化

swastikas plural

词汇关系

近义词
Black Spider cross gammadion gammadion gammation hooked cross sauvastika sun wheel tetraskelion twisted cross sauwastika
衍生词
half-swastika Swasticar swastikaed swastikalike swooshtika zwastika

词源

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक (svastika), from सु- (su-, “good, well”) + अस्ति (asti), a verbal abstract of the root of the verb "to be", स्वस्ति (svasti) thus meaning "well-being" — and the diminutive suffix क (ka); hence "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm". First attestation in English in 1871, a Sanskritism that replaced the Grecian term gammadion. From 1932 onwards it often referred specifically to the version used by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (also called the "hooked cross", or German Hakenkreuz).
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