festival

See also: Festival

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstəvəl/

• Audio (US)

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AdjectiveEdit

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

NounEdit

festival (plural festivals)

1. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
2. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

Related termsEdit

• festive
• festivities

TranslationsEdit

celebration

• Afrikaans: fees
• Albanian: festival (sq) m, festë (sq) f
• Arabic: عِيد‏‎ m (ʿīd)
• Armenian: տոն (hy) (ton), փառատոն (hy) (pʿaṙaton)
• Azeri: festival, bayram (az)
• Bashkir: байрам (bayram)
• Basque: jai
• Belarusian: фестыва́ль m (fjestyválʹ), свя́та n (svjáta)
• Bengali: উৎসব (bn) (utsôb)
• Bulgarian: пра́зненство (bg) n (práznenstvo), фестива́л (bg) m (festivál), пра́зник (bg) m (práznik)
• Burmese: ပွဲတော် (my) (pwai:tau)
• Chamicuro: meesa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 節慶 (zh), 节庆 (zh) (jiéqìng), 節日 (zh), 节日 (zh) (jiérì), 節 (zh), 节 (zh) (jié), 會演 (zh), 会演 (zh) (huìyǎn), 匯演 (zh), 汇演 (zh) (huìyǎn)

• Czech: festival (cs), svátek (cs) m
• Danish: festival c
• Dutch: festival (nl) n, feest (nl) n
• Esperanto: festivalo
• Estonian: pidustused pl, festival (et)
• Finnish: festivaali (fi)
• French: festival (fr) m, fête (fr) f
• Georgian: ფესტივალი (pesṭivali)
• German: Festival (de) n, Fest (de) n

  Alemannic German: Fäscht n

• Greek: φεστιβάλ (el) (festivál)
• Gujarati: ઓચ્છવ (gu) m (occhav), મહોચ્છવ m (mahocchav)
• Hebrew: פֶסטִיבָל‏‎ (he) m (festivál), חַג‏‎ (he) m (khag)
• Hindi: त्योहार (hi) m (tyohār), उत्सव (hi) m (utsav), पर्व (hi) m (parva)
• Hungarian: fesztivál (hu), ünnepség (hu)
• Icelandic: hátíð (is) f
• Ido: festivalo (io)
• Indonesian: festival (id), pesta (id), perayaan (id)
• Irish: fleá f
• Italian: mostra (it), rassegna (it), festival (it)
• Japanese: 祭り (まつり, matsuri), 祭典 (ja) (さいてん, saiten), 祝祭 (ja) (しゅくさい, shukusai)
• Kazakh: мейрам (meyram), мереке (kk) (mereke), фестиваль (festïvalʹ)
• Khmer: បុណ្យ (km) (bon)
• Korean: 축제 (ko) (chukje) (祝祭 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: майрам (mayram), фестиваль (ky) (festivalʹ)
• Lao: ງັນ (ngan), ງານ (ngān), ມະຫະກຳ (ma ha kam), ງານບຸນ (ngān bun), ກອງບຸນ (kǭng bun), ມື້ພັກ (lo) (mư̄ phak)
• Latin: feria, festum, festivitas f

• Latvian: festivāls m, svētki
• Lithuanian: festivalis m, šventė (lt) f
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: фестивал m (festival), празник m (praznik)
• Malay: perayaan, festival
• Manx: ard-laa m
• Maori: taiopenga, hui taurima
• Mongolian: баяр ёслол (bajar joslol)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: festival m

  Nynorsk: festival m

• Persian: جشنواره‏‎ (fa) (jašnvâre), فستیوال‏‎ (fa) (festivâl), عید‏‎ (fa) (eyd, id), جشن‏‎ (fa) (jašn)
• Polish: festiwal (pl) m, święto (pl) n
• Portuguese: festival (pt)
• Quechua: raymi (qu)
• Romanian: festival (ro) n
• Russian: фестива́ль (ru) m (festiválʹ), пра́здник (ru) m (prázdnik), пра́зднество (ru) n (prázdnestvo)
• Sanskrit: महोत्सव (sa) m (mahotsava)
• Scottish Gaelic: féill f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фестивал m, празник m

  Roman: festival (sh) m, praznik (sh) m

• Slovak: festival (sk) m, sviatok m
• Slovene: festival (sl) m, praznik (sl) m
• Spanish: festival m
• Swahili: tamasha (sw)
• Swedish: festival (sv) c
• Tajik: ид (tg) (id), фестивал (festival), ҷашн (tg) (jašn)
• Tatar: бәйрәм (tt) (bäyräm)
• Telugu: పండుగ (te) (paṃḍuga)
• Thai: งานฉลอง (ngaan-chà-lɔ̌ɔng), มหกรรม (má-hà-gam)
• Tibetan: དུས་ཆེན (dus chen)
• Turkish: festival (tr), şenlik (tr), bayram (tr)
• Turkmen: festiwal, baýram (tk)
• Ukrainian: фестива́ль m (festyválʹ), свя́то n (svjáto)
• Urdu: تہوار‏‎
• Uzbek: festival (uz), bayram (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngày hội, đại hội liên hoan, hội diễn (vi), lễ hội (vi)
• Welsh: gŵyl (cy) m, f
• Yiddish: יאָמטעוו‏‎ (yomtev)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

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CatalanEdit

NounEdit

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

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CzechEdit

NounEdit

festival m

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

Further readingEdit

• festival in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• festival in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

EtymologyEdit

From Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).

NounEdit

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

1. festival

Derived termsEdit

• filmfestival
• songfestival

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /fɛs.ti.val/

• Audio (Paris)

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NounEdit

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Further readingEdit

• “festival” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English festival.

NounEdit

festival m (invariable)

1. festival
2. worker's festival

SynonymsEdit

• mostra
• rassegna

Related termsEdit

• festivaliere
• festivaliero

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

NounEdit

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)

1. a festival

ReferencesEdit

• “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

NounEdit

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)

1. a festival

ReferencesEdit

• “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English festival.

NounEdit

festival m (plural festivais)

1. festival

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

NounEdit

festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

1. festival

DeclensionEdit

Declension of festival

	singular	plural
nominative	festìvāl	festivali
genitive	festivála	festivala
dative	festivalu	festivalima
accusative	festival	festivale
vocative	festivale	festivali
locative	festivalu	festivalima
instrumental	festivalom	festivalima

See alsoEdit

• praznik

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

festival m (plural festivales)

1. festival

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TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French festival.

NounEdit

festival (definite accusative festivalı, plural festivallar)

1. festival

SynonymsEdit

• şenlik