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Lewandowski  Jul 20, 11, 07:54    #1
Greetings,
I live in the U.S and I am half polish. I am doing a project in this great country and I was looking for polish battle cries/sayings to help enhance my project. If they could be in polish but have an english translation it would be helpful. It could be something the winged hussars said or whatever. Also specifically how would you say, "long live poland."
-Thanks
LenkaThreads: -
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Joined: Nov 17, 09 ♀ 		 Jul 20, 11, 20:32    #2
First of all:
Bóg Honor Ojczyzna- God Honour Homeland
Bogurodzica:

Our whole national anthem is a battle song.
Right now I can't think of anything else
HansKlosThreads: 1
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Joined: Jul 20, 11 ♂ 		 Jul 20, 11, 21:33    #3
You would have to take a look at The Deluge from Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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Joined: Feb 6, 10  Pictures: 4 ♂ [Suspended] 		 Jul 20, 11, 21:40    #4
In Jan Pasek's memoirs he wrote that when he and other Poles were storming a Swedish occupied castle they carried bales of hay in front of them to absorb the bullets being fired by the Swedes and that the majority of Poles were yelling "Woo Hooo!" as they ran into the gunfire, but that he, being unaware of any "Lord Woo Hoo" in heaven with the power to intercede on his behalf, opted to yell the names of Jesus and Mary.
nemacolin  May 4, 12, 05:27    #5
esge polska nesga niewa..........Poland was never lost
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nemacolin:
esge polska nesga niewa

That isn't in Polish.
HipisThreads: -
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Joined: Apr 3, 12 ♂ 		 May 4, 12, 15:38    #7
I think he meant "Jeszcze Polska nie zgineła".
Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 May 10, 12, 13:23    #8
Na wroga! (at the enemy)
Do ataku! (attack)
Za Polskę! (for Poland)
Za wolność! (for freeedom)
Za wolność Waszą i naszą (For your freedom and ours)
Bić Kacapa! (beat the Rooskie)
Bić Szwaba! (beat the Kraut)
IronsideThreads: 59
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Joined: Feb 26, 09 ♂ 		 May 10, 12, 13:36    #9
Polonius3:
Na wroga! (at the enemy)
Do ataku! (attack)
Za Polskę! (for Poland)
Za wolność! (for freeedom)
Za wolność Waszą i naszą (For your freedom and ours)
Bić Kacapa! (beat the Rooskie)
Bić Szwaba! (beat the Kraut)

/eh ?
You mean sayings from movies?
sofijufkaThreads: -
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Joined: Mar 13, 12 ♀ 		 May 10, 12, 13:45    #10
Hurrraaa!
Bij psubrata!
Naprzód!
Do chorągwi!
Bij, zabij!
ReservoirDogThreads: -
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Joined: Nov 22, 11 ♀ 		 May 10, 12, 13:55    #11
Bić Kacapa! (beat the Rooskie)

hehe, nice :)

I have nothing special:
Ognia! (fire)
cinekThreads: 1
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Joined: Nov 16, 07 ♂ 		 May 11, 12, 09:13    #12
Na plasterki!!!!

http://www.pomorskie.eu/res/kultura/aktualnosci/0_2011/07_2011/ok_kajk o_i_kokosz_550.jpg

;-)
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Joined: Apr 13, 11 ♂ 		 May 11, 12, 17:58    #13
cinek:
Na plasterki!!!!

...
Tu spojrzeniem okrutnym

swą małżonkę obrzucił,

wrzasnął: - Tobie też utnę!

I rzeczywiście uciął.

Lecz nadal czując dreszcze

mordercze, wciąż się pieklił,

mruczał: - Kogo by jeszcze?

Przeto wszyscy uciekli.
...
Warknął: - Co, macie stracha?

Czknął, poprawił pluderki,

i jak mieczem zamacha -

to dosłownie w plasterki.
....

Waligórski, Ballada o straszliwej rzezi, http://www.waligorski.art.pl/liryka.php?litera=b&nazwa=19
Gruffi_GummiThreads: 1
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Joined: Jul 2, 11 ♂ 		Edited by: Gruffi_Gummi  May 12, 12, 00:52    #14
Lem had mentioned one:

"Weszli tedy w czarne jądro mroków, gdzie Triodego ustrzelił ktoś z garłacza antymaterią, może któryś z myśliwych - Kybernosów, a może był to samopał, zastawiony na bezogoniastą kometę. Dosyć, że Triody znikł, ledwo "Awruk!!" krzyknąć zdołał, słowo ulubione, zawołanie bitewne rodu."
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Joined: Apr 13, 11 ♂ 		 May 12, 12, 01:37    #15
Gruffi_Gummi:
Lem had mentioned one:

Good one. :-)
So he died during the attack of that famous Winged Ślusarni? (Or the other way around. It's been so long. :-))

Kupą, Mości panowie, kupą!
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Joined: Apr 30, 08 ♀ 		 May 12, 12, 01:59    #16
boletus:
Kupą, Mości panowie, kupą!

Kupy nikt nie ruszy...

Another one:
-Ociec, prać?
- Prać!
boletusThreads: 47
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Joined: Apr 13, 11 ♂ 		Edited by: boletus  May 12, 12, 15:30    #17
strzyga:
-Ociec, prać?

What a rhetorical question. :-)

Hałła! Hałła!

A spoiler:
Doroszewski's dictionary: hałłachowanie: from the verb hałłachować, a.k.a. ałłachować, ałłakować and hałłakować, which in turn derives from the word hałła! - "A battle cry of Turks and Tatars". The dictionary cites "By Fire and Sword" of H. Sienkiewicz, providing an example of its use. Halla! comes from Allah, a word for God in Islam.
boletusThreads: 47
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Joined: Apr 13, 11 ♂ 		 May 19, 12, 06:56    #18
[I do not think the OP is interested in the subject anymore. But since some little pearls appear here and there from time to time, the thread continues.. :-)]

According to a popular legend, rather than leading his men to charge with the official cry "Vive l'Empereur", Kozietulski - the commander of the 3rd squadron of Polish Chevaux-Légers - issued this order:
- Naprzód psiekrwie, Cesarz patrzy - Forward, you bloody dogs, the Emperor is watching.
"As a reward for the charge of Somosierra the Emperor had promoted the whole Polish Guard regiment to the Old Guard. This meant it had skipped the Middle Guard, as normally a regiment would go from the Young to Middle, and only after another act of heroism should it go to the Old Guard. ... So the Emperor, who witnessed the charge at Somosierra, must have thought it very fine to promote the regiment straight from Young to Old Guard, and he also ordered the whole Guard to present arms to the squadron as it passed by." - Dezydery Chłapowski, a Polish officer assigned to the Emperor's Headquarters.
http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/virtual/c_somosierra.html
(Battle of Somosierra, November 30, 1808)


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