Lord have mercy, in other languages

[Hoankan]

One of the interesting joys of living in Japan and Orthodoxy has been trying to understand what is being said in Divine Liturgy. Since the words are often in an older Japanese, it can be hard to find the right translation.

One thing that I found interesting was Lord, have mercy.

In Japanese it is 主哀れめよ or shuu awareme yo

Now one of the interesting parts is that awareme yo is actually written differently than what I have above since Orthodox uses an older kanji.

shuu awareme yo doesn't exactly translate into Lord have mercy, but Lord take pity.

So, with all that said, I thought it'd be interesting to see how Lord, have mercy is said in other languages.

Please post the following;

Lord have mercy written in the native language
a brief pronunciation for those of us who can't read the native language
and special meaning or difference from the English words used

主哀れめよ
shuu awareme yo
Lord take pity

 

[Khaleas]

In Finnish...

Herra Jeesus Kristus, Jumalan Poika, armahda minua syntistä!

 

[Hoankan]

That's not simply Lord have mercy is it?

 

[SeraphimSarov]

That's not simply Lord have mercy is it?

Looks like the Jesus prayer.

 

[Hoankan]

That's what it looks like. Just want to make sure.

 

[Khaleas]

That's not simply Lord have mercy is it?

Duh... I guess I still can't read directions... (that was the Jesus prayer)

Herra armahda

would be Lord have Mercy

 

[Hoankan]

It's ok. I just wanted to do something simple. Lord have mercy is easier to figure out words than Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. I don't even know how to say that in Japanese properly (I can translate it in a best guess though)

 

[ma2000]

Doamne, milueşte!

(Dwam - ne mee-loo-esh-te; ne as in nest, esh as in mesh, te as in test)

"a milui" is actually a verb and not an expression like "to have mercy"

 

[ma2000]

Is that Finnish or Swedish?

 

[Breaking Babylon]

Greek: Kyrie Eleison
Pronunciation: Kee-ree ee-lay-sahn
Meaning: Lord have mercy

Russian: Gospodi Pomilui
Pronunciation: Goss-poh-dee Pah-mee-loy
Meaning: Lord have mercy

 

[-Kyriaki-]

Actually Isaac, Kyrie Eleison is more like kee-ree-ay ell-ay-sun/zun or at least that's how I pronounce it - it's my name! It at least has the extra syllable in Kyrie.

yaRabb urrham (best transliteration I can find) is arabic, but I don't know exactly what the transliteration word-wise is as I don't speak arabic.
I do know that yaRab is "O Lord" though

Just for fun, the other languages I speak:

German: Herr, erbarme dich
Erbamen (the infinitive form) means to have mercy or take pity.

Indonesian/Malay (though mine's rusty): Tuhan Kasihanilah Kami
literally: God have divine mercy on us

This is a fun thread!

 

[wynd]

German: Herr, erbarme dich
Erbamen (the infinitive form) means to have mercy or take pity.

One of the coolest recordings I've heard of the Divine Liturgy was in German. "Ehre sei dem Vater..."

Also, Spanish: Señor, ten piedad. It's pretty literally "Lord have mercy" or maybe "Lord have pity."

 

[-Kyriaki-]

Oh wynd that sounds wonderful If you let me know where you heard it, both I and my future-godfather would love to hear it - we both speak German and geek out somewhat to hear church things discussed in it.

 

[CuriousityKilledThe]

In Mandarin!

求主垂怜

In Pinyin this would be rendered:
Qiu2Zhu3Chui2Lian2

But since Pinyin makes little sense to most people:
Chyo Zhoo Chuay Lien
Is probably the closest "English characters" approximation.

求 means to beg or entreat, 主 means "Lord"(note this same character is used in Hoankan's Japanese translation in the OP... because the Japanese stole Kanji from the Chinese ) 垂 means to "bequeath" or "hand down", and 怜 means pity or sympathy.

But it all means Lord have mercy in the end.

I have no idea how to say "Lord have mercy" in Uyghur. Since "merciful" is one of the names of God in Islam and the Uyghurs are Muslim, there seem to be a trillion ways to say mercy as far as my Uyghur dictionary is telling me. But for now, we'll stick with:

خۇدايىم، ، كەڭچىلىك قىل
Xudayim, kengchilik qil

Font doesn't show up correctly because, well, nobody has Uyghur installed on their computers.

Anyways, I hope the posting continues, but for those with broken scrolling fingers, there is a sort of "Deus ex Machina" at Wikipedia which has the sayings in most of the major languages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrie#In_various_languages

 

[SeraphimSarov]

Swedish: Herre, förbarma Dig.

 

[wynd]

Font doesn't show up correctly because, well, nobody has Uyghur installed on their computers.

It worked on mine. Look here: http://i22.tinypic.com/vfb79i.gif

 

[wynd]

Oh wynd that sounds wonderful If you let me know where you heard it, both I and my future-godfather would love to hear it - we both speak German and geek out somewhat to hear church things discussed in it.

I'm having trouble tracking it down. In the meantime listen to this: We have seen the true Light

 

[Tsarina]

Arabic: Yara Bur-hauhm. The "hauhm" part is from the throat.

 

[Friul]

Italian: Signore, abbi pietà.

 

[Nichole]

Rab merhamet eyle..........................in Turkish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!