Lantern Festival

English

WOTD – 5 February 2023

Etymology

Lanterns displayed during the Lantern Festival (sense 1) in Taipei, Taiwan, near the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.

Sky lanterns being released during the Lantern Festival (sense 2) in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

From the carrying and displaying of lanterns during such festivals.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌlæntən ˈfɛstɪvl̩/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌlæn(t)ɚn ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/
• Hyphenation: lan‧tern fes‧tiv‧al

Noun

the Lantern Festival (plural Lantern Festivals)

2. A festival marking the end of the Chinese New Year period, celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the Chinese calendar when the first full moon of the year is seen (in February or early March).
4. ยี่เป็ง (Yi Peng), a festival celebrated chiefly in northern Thailand on the day of the full moon in the second month of the northern Thai lunar calendar (equivalent to the twelfth month of the lunar calendar used in the rest of Thailand, generally in November).

Synonyms

• Feast of Lanterns
• Festival of Lanterns

Translations

festival marking the end of the Chinese New Year period

• Catalan: Festival dels Fanalets m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 元宵節 / 元宵节 (jyun⁴ siu¹ zit³)

  Hakka: 元宵節 / 元宵节 (Ngièn-siâu-chiet)

  Hokkien: 元宵 (zh-min-nan) (Goân-siau)

  Mandarin: 元宵節 / 元宵节 (zh) (Yuánxiāojié)

• Czech: svátek lampiónů m
• Dutch: Lantaarnfeest n
• Esperanto: Lanterna Festo
• Finnish: Lyhtyjuhla
• French: fête des lanternes f
• German: (Chinesisches) Laternenfest n, Yuanxiao-Fest n
• Indonesian: Festival Lampion, Cap Go Meh
• Japanese: 元宵節 (ja) (げんしょうせつ, Gen shōsetsu)
• Korean: 원소절(元宵節) (wonsojeol)
• Macedonian: Пра́зник на фене́рите m (Práznik na fenérite)
• Malay: Pesta Tanglung
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Lanternefesten

• Polish: Święto Latarni n
• Russian: пра́здник фонаре́й m (prázdnik fonaréj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свѐтковина лампиона f

  Roman: svètkovina lampiona f

• Spanish: Fiesta de los Faroles f
• Thai: เทศกาลโคมไฟ
• Turkish: Fener Festivali
• Ukrainian: свя́то ліхта́рів n (svjáto lixtáriv)
• Uzbek: fonuslar bayrami
• Vietnamese: Tết Nguyên Tiêu

festival celebrated chiefly in northern Thailand on the day of the full moon in the second month of the northern Thai lunar calendar

• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ยี่เป็ง (th) (Yi Peng)

Further reading

• Lantern Festival on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Loy Krathong on Wikipedia.Wikipedia