festival

See also: Festival

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstəvəl/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

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 [...].

Noun

festival (countable and uncountable, 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.
3. (Caribbean, uncountable) fried cornbread

Related terms

• festive
• festivities

Translations

event or community gathering

• Afrikaans: fees (af)
• Albanian: festival (sq) m, festë (sq) f
• Arabic: عِيد‎ (ar) m (ʿīd)
• Armenian: տոն (hy) (ton), փառատոն (hy) (pʿaṙaton)
• Azerbaijani: festival, bayram (az)
• Bashkir: байрам (bayram)
• Basque: jai
• Belarusian: фестыва́ль m (fjestyválʹ), свя́та n (svjáta)
• Bengali: উৎসব (bn) (utśôb)
• Bulgarian: пра́зненство (bg) n (práznenstvo), фестива́л (bg) m (festivál), пра́зник (bg) m (práznik)
• Burmese: ပွဲတော် (my) (pwai:tau), ပွဲ (my) (pwai:)
• 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
• Egyptian: (ḥꜣb)
• Esperanto: festivalo
• Estonian: pidustused pl, festival (et)
• Faroese: hátíð f
• Finnish: juhlat (fi) pl, festivaali (fi)
• French: festival (fr) m, fête (fr) f
• Galician: festival m, festa (gl) f
• Georgian: ფესტივალი (pesṭivali)
• German: Festival (de) n, Fest (de) n

  Alemannic German: Fäscht n

• Greek: φεστιβάλ (el) (festivál)

  Ancient: πανήγυρις f (panḗguris)

• 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 (parv)
• Hungarian: fesztivál (hu), ünnepség (hu)
• Icelandic: hátíð (is) f
• Ido: festivalo (io)
• Indonesian: festival (id), pesta (id), perayaan (id)
• Irish: fleá f
• Italian: festival (it), mostra (it), rassegna (it)
• Japanese: 祭り (ja) (まつり, matsuri), 祭典 (ja) (さいてん, saiten), 祝祭 (ja) (しゅくさい, shukusai)
• Jingpho: poi
• Kazakh: мейрам (meyram), мереке (kk) (mereke), фестиваль (festïvalʹ)
• Khmer: បុណ្យ (km) (bon), មហោស្រព (km) (mĕəʼhaosrɑp)
• Korean: 축제 (ko) (chukje) (祝祭 (ko)), 축일 (ko) (chugil)
• Kyrgyz: майрам (ky) (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)
• Mòcheno: fest n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: festival m

  Nynorsk: festival m

• Pali: mahussava
• Pashto: عيد‎ (ps) m (id), جشن‎ (ps) m (ǰašᶕn), فستيوال‎ m (festiwãl)
• 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: उत्सव (sa) m (utsava), महोत्सव (sa) m (mahotsava)
• Scottish Gaelic: féill f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фестивал m, празник m

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

• Shan: ပွႆး (shn) (póay)
• 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) (paṇḍuga)
• 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
• Uyghur: بايرام‎ (bayram), فېستىۋال‎ (fëstiwal)
• Uzbek: festival (uz), bayram (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngày hội, đại hội liên hoan, hội diễn (vi), lễ hội (vi)
• Welsh: gŵyl (cy) m or f
• White Hmong: rooj noj mov
• Yiddish: יאָמטעוו‎ (yomtev)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /fəs.tiˈval/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /fəs.tiˈbal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fes.tiˈval/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

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Czech

Etymology

From English festival

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛstɪval]
• Hyphenation: fe‧s‧ti‧val

Noun

festival m inan

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	festival	festivaly
genitive	festivalu	festivalů
dative	festivalu	festivalům
accusative	festival	festivaly
vocative	festivale	festivaly
locative	festivalu, festivale	festivalech
instrumental	festivalem	festivaly

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛs.tiˌvɑl/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

1. A festival (festive event or gathering).

Derived terms

• dorpsfestival
• festivalganger
• festivalisering
• festivalpubliek
• filmfestival
• kunstfestival
• muziekfestival
• songfestival
• theaterfestival

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French

Etymology

From English festival, from Old French festival.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛs.ti.val/

• Audio

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• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Further reading

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstival/, /festiˈval/

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival.

Noun

festival m (invariable)

1. festival
2. worker's festival

Synonyms

• mostra
• rassegna

Related terms

• festivaliere
• festivaliero

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

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

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

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

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From French festival, ultimately from Latin fēstīvālis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fəʃ.tiˈval/

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

1. festival

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

1. festival

Declension

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 also

• praznik

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Spanish

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

1. festival

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

Noun

festival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)

1. festival

Synonyms

• şenlik