The many names of Jesus

[Phlegmak]

I'm a little curious about Jesus's name in languages around the world.

English: Jesus Christ
Polish: Jezus Chrystus (English pronunciation: Yezus ?)
German: Iesus
Amharic: Eyesus Kristos (Transliterated. Each letter is pronounced)
Spanish: Jesús Cristo
Portuguese: Jesus Cristo
Arabic: Isa (Transliterated)
Russian: Иисус Христос (Roughly transliterated as Eesus Khrestos)

So, what else can be added to that? I wonder if some language has some wildly different name for him.

EDIT: Iesus is actually the Latin spelling.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Dutch: Jezus Christus. (jayzuhs Kristus?) The really really pious people for some reason pronounce "Christus" as Gggggristus

 

[Bill3000]

Ancient Greek: Ἰησοῦς Χριστός (Iēsoûs Khristós)

 

[Kerozine]

The Spanish version is pronounced 'HEY-ZEUS', correct?

 

[Defiant47]

Romanian: Isus Cristos

 

[warpus]

Polish: Jezus Chrystus (English pronunciation: Yezus ?)

That's right! The Polish J is a long I and sounds like an English Y.

 

[Phlegmak]

That's right! The Polish J is a long I and sounds like an English Y.

I'm wondering how the second part is pronounced. The same as English with an "us" at the end?

 

[oagersnap]

German: Iesus

Wrong! It's simply Jesus Christus.

In Danish, it's Jesus Kristus.

I'm wondering how the second part is pronounced. The same as English with an "us" at the end?

I would assume that it's like the word "Christian" in English, but just with "-us" instead of "-ian". That's roughly the way it's pronounced here in Germany and Denmark.

 

[Phlegmak]

The Spanish version is pronounced 'HEY-ZEUS', correct?

Sort of. It's more like "heh SOOS".

Wrong! It's simply Jesus Christus.

In Danish, it's Jesus Kristus.

That's odd. The German prayer book I read clearly said Iesus.

 

[Bill3000]

Well if you want names instead of merely translations...


Advocate (1 John 2:1)
Almighty (Rev. 1:8; Mt. 28:18)
Alpha and Omega (Rev. 1:8; 22:13)
Amen (Rev. 3:14)
Apostle of our Profession (Heb. 3:1)
Atoning Sacrifice for our Sins (1 John 2:2)
Author of Life (Acts 3:15)
Author and Perfecter of our Faith (Heb. 12:2)
Author of Salvation (Heb. 2:10)
Beginning and End (Rev. 22:13)
Blessed and only Ruler (1 Tim. 6:15)
Bread of God (John 6:33)
Bread of Life (John 6:35; 6:48)
Bridegroom (Mt. 9:15)
Capstone (Acts 4:11; 1 Pet. 2:7)
Chief Cornerstone (Eph. 2:20)
Chief Shepherd (1 Pet. 5:4)
Christ (1 John 2:22)
Creator (John 1:3)
Deliverer (Rom. 11:26)
Eternal Life (1 John 1:2; 5:20)
Faithful and True (Rev. 19:11)
Faithful Witness (Rev. 1:5)
Faithful and True Witness (Rev. 3:14)
First and Last (Rev. 1:17; 2:8; 22:13)
Firstborn From the Dead (Rev. 1:5)
Firstborn over all creation (Col. 1:15)
Gate (John 10:9)
God (John 1:1; 20:28; Heb. 1:8; Rom. 9:5; 2 Pet. 1:1;1 John 5:20; etc.)
Good Shepherd (John 10:11,14)
Great Shepherd (Heb. 13:20)
Great High Priest (Heb. 4:14)
Head of the Church (Eph. 1:22; 4:15; 5:23)
Heir of all things (Heb. 1:2)
High Priest (Heb. 2:17)
Holy and True (Rev. 3:7)
Holy One (Acts 3:14)
Hope (1 Tim. 1:1)
Hope of Glory (Col. 1:27)
Horn of Salvation (Luke 1:69)
I Am (John 8:58)
Image of God (2 Cor. 4:4)
Immanuel (Mt. 1:23)
Judge of the living and the dead (Acts 10:42)
King Eternal (1 Tim. 1:17)
King of Israel (John 1:49)
King of the Jews (Mt. 27:11)
King of kings (1 Tim 6:15; Rev. 19:16)
King of the Ages (Rev. 15:3)
Lamb (Rev. 13:8)
Lamb of God (John 1:29)
Lamb Without Blemish (1 Pet. 1:19)
Last Adam (1 Cor. 15:45)
Life (John 14:6; Col. 3:4)
Light of the World (John 8:12)
Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Rev. 5:5)
Living One (Rev. 1:18)
Living Stone (1 Pet. 2:4)
Lord (2 Pet. 2:20)
Lord of All (Acts 10:36)
Lord of Glory (1 Cor. 2:8)
Lord of lords (Rev. 19:16)
Man from Heaven (1 Cor. 15:48)
Master (Lk. 5:5; 8:24; 9:33)
Mediator of the New Covenant (Heb. 9:15)
Mighty God (Isa. 9:6)
Morning Star (Rev. 22:16)
Offspring of David (Rev. 22:16)
Only Begotten Son of God (John 1:18; 1 John 4:9)
Our Great God and Savior (Titus 2:13)
Our Holiness (1 Cor. 1:30)
Our Husband (2 Cor. 11:2)
Our Protection (2 Thess. 3:3)
Our Redemption (1 Cor. 1:30)
Our Righteousness (1 Cor. 1:30)
Our Sacrificed Passover Lamb (1 Cor. 5:7)
Power of God (1 Cor. 1:24)
Precious Cornerstone (1 Pet. 2:6)
Prophet (Acts 3:22)
Rabbi (Mt. 26:25)
Resurrection and Life (John 11:25)
Righteous Branch (Jer. 23:5)
Righteous One (Acts 7:52; 1 John 2:1)
Rock (1 Cor. 10:4)
Root of David (Rev. 5:5; 22:16)
Ruler of God’s Creation (Rev. 3:14)
Ruler of the Kings of the Earth (Rev. 1:5)
Savior (Eph. 5:23; Titus 1:4; 3:6; 2 Pet. 2:20)
Son of David (Lk. 18:39)
Son of God (John 1:49; Heb. 4:14)
Son of Man (Mt. 8:20)
Son of the Most High God (Lk. 1:32)
Source of Eternal Salvation for all who obey him (Heb. 5:9)
The One Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5)
The Stone the builders rejected (Acts 4:11)
True Bread (John 6:32)
True Light (John 1:9)
True Vine (John 15:1)
Truth (John 1:14; 14:6)
Way (John 14:6)
Wisdom of God (1 Cor. 1:24)
Word (John 1:1)
Word of God (Rev. 19:13)

 

[oagersnap]

That's odd. The German prayer book I read clearly said Iesus.

Probably just archaic spelling.

 

[Evie]

French: Jésus Christ.

The J is pronounced french style (eg, without any "d" sound), the é something like ay in "hay", the first s as z and the second s is silent.

Christ is mostly the same as in english, with the exception that the i is more like middle than fire. The t is also sometime silent, depending on who said it.

If Christ is beign used as a swearword by Quebecers, then the t is always silent.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Spanish: Jesús Cristo

Wrong. It is "Jesús", "Cristo" or "Jesucristo" but not "Jesús Cristo"

 

[Kerozine]

French: Jésus Christ.

The J is pronounced french style (eg, without any "d" sound), the é something like ay in "hay", the first s as z and the second s is silent.

Christ is mostly the same as in english, with the exception that the i is more like middle than fire. The t is also sometime silent, depending on who said it.

If Christ is beign used as a swearword by Quebecers, then the t is always silent.

'JAY-ZOOH CREE'?

 

[Bill3000]

French: Jésus Christ.

The J is pronounced french style (eg, without any "d" sound), the é something like ay in "hay", the first s as z and the second s is silent.

Christ is mostly the same as in english, with the exception that the i is more like middle than fire. The t is also sometime silent, depending on who said it.

If Christ is beign used as a swearword by Quebecers, then the t is always silent.

/ʒe.zu kʁis/

 

[Greizer85]

Finnish: Jeesus Kristus, pronounced exactly as it's written, as most Finnish words are.

 

[Evie]

/ʒe.zu kʁis/

You don't so much need a dictionary with phonetic alphabet-to-english explanations to understand MY version, though

 

[Kerozine]

/ʒe.zu kʁis/

How are you supposed to pronounce that?

 

[warpus]

I'm wondering how the second part is pronounced. The same as English with an "us" at the end?

In Polish pronounciation is determined alphabetically, with a couple exceptions. You figure out how to pronounce the first letter, then the second, third, etc. until you've gone through the entire word - say that in sequence, and you've said the word properly. Exceptions are sound-combinations such as "Ch" (which is pronounced exactly like an h would be)

So.. Chrystus

Ch - as in the H in Honda
r y - close to the 'ri' in ring (except that the R is not so.. american-sounding. Do not lift your tongue when you say it)
s t - like the st in stop
u s - oos

 

[Phlegmak]

Probably just archaic spelling.

I realized I'm misremembering and Iesus is actually the Latin spelling.

Wrong. It is "Jesús", "Cristo" or "Jesucristo" but not "Jesús Cristo"

I thought it was something like that, but I couldn't remember exactly how it worked.