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RZM

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2. Definitely 'Tsar'

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Tue Jun 12, 2012, 03:52 PM

Jun 2012

Last edited Wed Jun 13, 2012, 01:55 PM - Edit history (1)

In Russian it's:

Царь

The Library of Congress transliteration system uses 'Ts' for 'Ц'. For the soft sign 'ь' an apostrophe is sometimes used, but sometimes it's left off too.

So you could do Tsar or Tsar'. The former tends to be more common though.

*On Edit*

Originally I wrote that 'Czar' came from the Polish spelling, but it looks like I was wrong about that.

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What's the Russian for Caesar? [View all] Bucky Jun 2012 OP

neither. In Russian it would be written in Cyrillic OffWithTheirHeads Jun 2012 #1

Definitely 'Tsar' RZM Jun 2012 #2

If you used Polish and said Czar sarisataka Jun 2012 #3

I found an interesting discussion about this at a language blog RZM Jun 2012 #4