hammer and sickle

English

Hammer and sickle.

Alternative forms

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Etymology

The symbol was developed by Yevgeny Kamzolkin in 1917, based on antetypes like hammer and pick (symbol of mining). The hammer represents workers, while the sickle represents farmers.

Noun

hammer and sickle (plural hammers and sickles)

1. A depiction of a sickle crossed with a hammer, used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union.
   • December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time‎^[1]:

     He remembers the [train] journeys fondly—the vast expanses of the Soviet empire rolling by, the glasses of tea served in metal cup holders embossed with the hammer and sickle.

2. (metonymically) Socialism or communism itself.

Translations

symbol of communism

• Albanian:

  Tosk: drapëri dhe çekiçi

• Arabic: اَلْمِطْرَقَة وَالْمِنْجَل (al-miṭraqa wa-l-minjal)
• Armenian: մուրճ եւ մանգաղ (murč ew mangaġ)
• Azerbaijani: oraq və çəkic
• Bashkir: ураҡ һәм сүкеш (uraq həm sükeş) (sickle and hammer)
• Basque: igitaia eta mailua
• Belarusian: серп і мо́лат m (sjerp i mólat) (sickle and hammer)
• Bulgarian: сърп и чук m (sǎrp i čuk) (sickle and hammer)
• Catalan: falç i martell
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錘子與鐮刀／锤子与镰刀 (zh) (chuízi yǔ liándāo)

• Chuvash: çурлапа мăлатук (çurlap̬a mălat̬uk)
• Czech: srp a kladivo (sickle and hammer)
• Danish: hammer og segl
• Dutch: hamer en sikkel
• Dzongkha: ཟོརཝ་དང་ཐོཝ (zor.w dang thow) (sickle and hammer)
• Esperanto: rikoltilo kaj martelo
• Estonian: sirp ja vasar
• Finnish: sirppi ja vasara
• French: la faucille et le marteau, faucille et marteau (fr)
• Georgian: ნამგალი და ურო (namgali da uro)
• German: Hammer und Sichel (de)
• Greek: σφυροδρέπανο (el) (sfyrodrépano)
• Hebrew: פטיש ומגל (patísh ve-magal)
• Hindi: हथौड़ा और हँसिया (hathauṛā aur hãsiyā)
• Hungarian: sarló és kalapács (hu)
• Icelandic: hamar og sigð
• Indonesian: palu arit
• Irish: casúr agus corrán
• Italian: falce e martello f
• Japanese: 鎌と槌 (かまとつち, kama to tsuchi) (sickle and hammer), 鎌とハンマー (kama to hanmā) (sickle and hammer)
• Kazakh: орақ пен балға (oraq pen balğa)
• Khmer: ញញួរ កណ្ដៀវ (ɲɔɲuə kɑndiev), ញញួរនិងកណ្ដៀវ (ɲɔɲuə nɨŋ kɑndiev)
• Korean: 낫과 망치 (natgwa mangchi) (sickle and hammer)
• Kumyk: оракъ ва чёкюч (oraq wa çöküç)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چەکوچ و داس (çekuç û das)

• Kyrgyz: орок менен балка (orok menen balka)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: sirpis un āmurs (sickle and hammer)
• Lithuanian: kūjis ir pjautuvas
• Macedonian: срп и че́кан (srp i čékan) (sickle and hammer)
• Malay: tukul dan sabit
• Mongolian: алх хадуур (alx xaduur)
• Nogai: орак пан шоькиш (orak pan şökiş)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hammer och sigd

  Nynorsk: hammar och sigd

• Persian: داس و چکش (dâs-o-čakoš)
• Polish: sierp i młot (pl) (sickle and hammer)
• Portuguese: foice e martelo
• Romanian: secera și ciocanul (sickle and hammer)
• Russian: серп и мо́лот (ru) m (serp i mólot) (sickle and hammer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срп и чекић m (sickle and hammer)

  Roman: srp i čekić m (sickle and hammer)

• Slovak: kosak a kladivo (sickle and hammer)
• Slovene: srp in kladivo (sickle and hammer)
• Spanish: hoz y martillo
• Swahili: nyundo na mundu
• Swedish: hammaren och skäran (sv)
• Tajik: дос ва болға (dos va bolġa)
• Tatar: урак һәм чүкеч (uraq häm çükeç)
• Telugu: సుత్తి మరియు కొడవలి (sutti mariyu koḍavali)
• Thai: ค้อนเคียว (kɔ́ɔn-kiao)
• Turkish: orak-çekiç, orak ve çekiç
• Turkmen: orak ve çekiç
• Ukrainian: серп і мо́лот m (serp i mólot) (sickle and hammer)
• Uyghur: ئورغاق ۋە بولقا (orghaq we bolqa)
• Uzbek: oʻroq va bolgʻa
• Vietnamese: búa và liềm
• Welsh: morthwyl a chryman
• Yakut: сиэрпэ уонна өтүйэ (sierpe uonna ötüye)

See also

• Red Star

Further reading

• hammer and sickle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:hammer and sickle on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons