Lent

See also: lent

English

Etymology

Shortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn (“spring”), as in a season into which days lengthen as it progresses. Related to German Lenz and Dutch lente (“springtime”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Homophones: leant, lent

Noun

Lent (plural Lents)

1. A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

   Hezekiah gave up vaping for Lent.

   1. (Eastern Christianity) The 40 days preceding Lazarus Saturday, the Saturday preceding Holy Week.
   2. (Roman Catholicism) The 46 days preceding Easter, reckoned as 40 days by excluding Sundays.
2. (England, education) The second term of the academic year at some British schools.

Synonyms

• (Christianity): Lententide, Lent season, Lenten season, season of Lent, Quadragesima
• (Eastern Christianity): Great Lent
• (educational): Lent term

Hyponyms

• (Roman Catholicism): Ash Wednesday (1st day), Quadragesima Sunday (1st Sunday), Reminiscere Sunday (2nd Sunday), Oculi Sunday (3rd Sunday), Laetare Sunday (4th Sunday), Passion Sunday (5th Sunday), Palm Sunday (6th Sunday), Holy Saturday (last day) (see terms for synonyms)
• (Eastern Orthodoxy): Clean Monday (1st day), Lazarus Friday (last day)

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: Вялі́кі по́ст m (Vjalíki póst)
• Bulgarian: Вели́к по́ст m (Velík póst)
• Catalan: Quaresma (ca) f, quaresma (ca) 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
• Danish: faste (da) c
• Dutch: veertigdagentijd m; vastentijd (nl) m
• Esperanto: Fastsezono
• Finnish: paasto (fi), paastonaika, suuri paasto
• 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: quādrāgēsima
• Latvian: Lielais gavēnis m
• Lithuanian: Gavėnia f

• Luxembourgish: Faaschtenzäit f
• Malay: Pra-Paskah
• Maltese: Randan
• Mòcheno: Vòst f
• 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 (čelle ruze)
• 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
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: spót m, spótny cas m

• Spanish: Cuaresma f
• Swedish: fastan (sv) c, påskfastan c
• Turkish: Büyük Perhiz
• Ukrainian: Вели́кий піст (uk) m (Velýkyj pist)
• Venetian: cuaréxema f, quaresima f
• Vietnamese: Mùa Chay
• Walloon: cwareme (wa) f
• Welsh: grawys m