- 1撒拉遜人（中世紀歐洲人對穆斯林的稱呼）
In the Middle Ages, Christian writers in Europe used Saracen for a Muslim, especially the Muslim peoples they met in war around the Mediterranean and in the Crusades. It is their word, not a name those people used for themselves. It also lumped many different groups together, as outsider labels often do. You will find it in old histories, poems, and church writing, and in some games and films that copy that medieval voice. It is not the normal English word for a Muslim today; that word is Muslim. Using Saracen for living people now can sound dated, , or , because it comes from the side that was fighting them and looking in from outside. Though actually, even in the Middle Ages the word's edges were messy: it could mean Arabs, , or more loosely 'the Muslim enemy'. Historians still use it when they are talking about that old European way of speaking, with a capital S.
組成English took it from Late Latin Saracenus, from Ancient Greek Σαρακηνός (Sarakēnós). Where the Greek came from has been argued for a long time. From the 1600s to the 1800s many people derived it from Arabic šarqiyyīn, 'easterners'. Some earlier writers pointed to Arabic sāriqūn, 'plunderers'. In the 300s AD a few Christian writers tied it to the biblical Sarah, which is likely a folk story, not a real origin. The Latin and Greek steps are solid; the rest is still a puzzle.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Saracennoun/ˈsæɹəˌsən/
- 1
A member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries AD, who were specifically distinct from Arabs.
- 2
datedA Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades.
- We pretend to be Christians, and, from the superior Light we enjoy, ought to exceed Heathens, Turks, Saracens, Moors, Negroes, and Indians, in the Knowledge and Practice of what is right.
- 3
datedA pirate in the Mediterranean.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。