Christmas Eve

English

Etymology

Christmas + eve

Proper noun

Christmas Eve

1. The evening before Christmas Day.
2. The day before Christmas Day.
   • 1681, Church of England, The book of common prayer

     This Collect is to be repeated every day with the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve.

Translations

evening before Christmas Day

• Catalan: nit de Nadal (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平安夜 (cmn) (Píng'ānyè)

• Czech: Štědrý večer (cs) m
• Dutch: kerstavond (nl) m
• Faroese: jólaaftan (fo) m
• Finnish: jouluaatto (fi)
• French: veillée de Noël (fr) f, nuit de Noël (fr) f, réveillon de Noël (fr) m
• German: Heiligabend (de) m
• Hebrew: ערב חג המולד (he) (érev khág hamolád) m
• Hungarian: karácsonyéj (hu), karácsonyest (hu), karácsony este (hu), szenteste (hu)
• Icelandic: aðfangadagskvöld (is) n
• Irish: Oíche Nollag (ga) f
• Macedonian: Бадна вечер (mk) (Bádna véčer) f

• Maltese: Lejliet il-Milied (mt)
• Manx: Oie'll Vayree (gv) f, Oie'll Voirrey (gv) f
• Norwegian: julaften (no) m
• Polish: Wigilia (pl) f
• Romanian: Ajunul Crăciunului (ro) n
• Russian: сочельник (ru) (sočél’nik) m
• Scottish Gaelic: Oidhche Nollaige (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ба̏дња̄ ве̏че̄р (sh) f

  Roman: Bȁdnjā vȅčēr (sh) f

• Slovak: Štedrý Večer (sk) m
• Spanish: Nochebuena (es) f
• Swedish: julaftons kväll (sv) c, julaftonskväll (sv) c
• Welsh: Noswyl Nadolig (cy) f

day before Christmas Day

• Czech: Štědrý den (cs) m
• Faroese: jólaaftan (fo) m
• Finnish: jouluaatto (fi)
• French: veille de Noël (fr) f
• German: Heiligabend (de) m
• Hebrew: ערב חג המולד (he) (érev khág hamolád) m
• Icelandic: aðfangadagur (is) jól (is)a m, aðfangadagur (is) m
• Italian: Vigilia (it) f
• Macedonian: Бадник (mk) (Bádnik) m

• Maltese: Lejliet il-Milied (mt)
• Norwegian: julaften (no) m
• Polish: Wigilia (pl) f
• Russian: сочельник (ru) (sočél’nik) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ба̏дња̄к (sh) m, Ба̏дњӣ да̑н (sh) m

  Roman: Bȁdnjāk (sh) m, Bȁdnjī dȃn (sh) m

• Swedish: julafton (sv) c
• Vietnamese: đêm Nô-en (vi)

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• Jèrriais: Sèrvelle dé Noué f

See also

• Christmas Eve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boxing Day
• St. Stephen's Day