Lent

See also: lent

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English

Etymology

Shortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-Germanic *langatīnaz (“spring”). Related to German Lenz and Dutch lente (“springtime”), which is derived from a word related to long, because of the longer days.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

Lent (plural Lents)

1. (Christianity) Period of fasting and penitence before Easter, lasting from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (Western Christianity).
2. (England, education) Lent term; the second term of the academic year at some British universities.

Synonyms

• Great Lent (Eastern Orthodoxy)

Translations

Christian period of penitence before Easter

• Arabic: اَلصَّوْم اَلْكَبِير‎ m (aṣ-ṣawm al-kabīr)
• Armenian: Մեծ Պահք (Mec Pahkʿ)
• Aromanian: preasinj, preasinji, pãreasinj
• Asturian: Cuaresma f
• Belarusian: Вялікі пост m (Vjalíki post)
• Bulgarian: Велик пост m (Velík post)
• Catalan: Quaresma f, quaresma f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大齋期 (zh), 大斋期 (zh) (dàizhāiqī), 四旬节 (zh) (sìxúnjié), 四旬節 (zh)

• Czech: Velký půst m
• Dutch: veertigdagentijd m; vastentijd (nl) m
• Esperanto: Fastsezono
• Finnish: paasto (fi), paastonaika
• French: carême (fr) m
• Friulian: coresime f, cresime f
• Galician: coresma f
• Georgian: დიდი მარხვა (didi marxva)
• German: Fastenzeit (de) f
• Greek: Σαρακοστή (el) f (Sarakostí)
• Hawaiian: Kalema
• Hebrew: התענית‎
• Hungarian: nagyböjt (hu)
• Ido: karesmo (io)
• Ingrian: Suurpühä
• Irish: Carghas
• Italian: Quaresima f
• Japanese: 四旬節 (しじゅんせつ, shijunsetsu)
• Korean: 사순절 (ko) (sasunjeol) (四旬節 (ko))
• Ladin: carëisema f
• Latin: quadragesima
• Latvian: Lielais gavēnis m

• Lithuanian: Gavėnia f
• Luxembourgish: Faaschtenzäit f
• Malay: Puasa Agung
• Maltese: Randan
• Norman: Tchithême m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: faste (no) m, fastetid m or f, langfaste m or f

  Nynorsk: langfaste f

• Occitan: caresma f
• Persian: چله روزه‎ (čelleh ruzeh)
• Polish: Wielki Post (pl) m
• Portuguese: quaresma (pt)
• Romanian: postul mare (ro), postul Paștelui, postul Paștilor, păresimi (ro), Păresimi f pl
• Romansch: curaisma f, cureisma f, curesma f, quaraisma f
• Russian: Вели́кий пост m (Velíkij post)
• Sardinian: caresima
• Scottish Gaelic: Carghas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коризма f, Велики пост m

  Roman: korizma (sh) f, Veliki post m

• Sicilian: Quarèsima (scn) f
• Slovak: Veľký pôst m
• Slovene: véliki pôst m
• Spanish: Cuaresma f
• Swedish: fastan (sv) c, påskfastan c
• Turkish: Büyük Perhiz
• Ukrainian: Великий піст (uk) m (Velýkyj pist)
• Venetian: cuaréxema f, quaresima f
• Vietnamese: Mùa Chay
• Walloon: cwareme (wa) f
• Welsh: grawys m