ritual

See also: Ritual and rituál

English

Alternative forms

• rituall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin adjective rītuālis, from noun rītuum (“rite”), + adjective suffix -ālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪ.t͡ʃu.əl/

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Adjective

ritual (comparative more ritual, superlative most ritual)

1. Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
   • 2001, David L. Lieber; Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 855:

     These verses are the basis for the practice of wearing a prayer shawl (tallit) with a ritual fringe (tzitzit) on each of its four corners

   They performed the ritual lighting of the candles.

Derived terms

• ritually

Translations

related to a rite

• Armenian: ծիսական (hy) (cisakan)
• Bulgarian: ритуален (bg) (ritualen), церемониален (bg) (ceremonialen)
• Catalan: ritual (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 儀式 (zh), 仪式 (zh) (yíshì)

• Czech: rituální (cs)
• Finnish: rituaalinen
• French: rituel (fr) m
• Galician: ritual m or f
• Georgian: რიტუალური (riṭualuri)
• German: rituell (de)
• Hebrew: פֻּלְחָן‎ (he) m
• Hungarian: rituális (hu), szertartásos (hu), ünnepélyes (hu)

• Italian: rituale (it)
• Japanese: 儀式 (ja) (ぎしき, gishiki)
• Latin: rītuālis
• Latvian: rituāls (lv)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rituell

  Nynorsk: rituell

• Polish: rytualny (pl) m, obrzędowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: ritual (pt), ritualístico
• Russian: ритуа́льный (ru) (rituálʹnyj), обря́довый (ru) (obrjádovyj)
• Swedish: rituell (sv)
• Ukrainian: ритуа́льний (rytuálʹnyj), обрядо́вий (obrjadóvyj), обря́дний (obrjádnyj)
• Welsh: defodol (cy)

Noun

ritual (countable and uncountable, plural rituals)

1. A rite; a repeated set of actions.

   The priests carried out the religious ritual carefully.

   • 2017, Christine Honders, OCD: The Struggle with Obsessions and Compulsions (page 44)

     Despite their good intentions, family members who participate in OCD rituals help reinforce the problem.

Derived terms

• ritualisation, ritualization
• ritualise, ritualize
• ritualist
• ritualistic
• ritually

Translations

repeated set of actions

• Albanian: ritual (sq) m
• Arabic: شَعِيرَة‎ f (šaʿīra), مَرَاسِم‎ m (marāsim), طُقُوس‎ m pl (ṭuqūs)
• Armenian: ծես (hy) (ces), արարողություն (ararołutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: ayin (az), mərasim
• Bashkir: йола (yola)
• Belarusian: рытуа́л m (rytuál), абра́д m (abrád)
• Bengali: আচার (bn) (acar)
• Bulgarian: ритуа́л (bg) m (rituál), о́бред (bg) m (óbred)
• Burmese: အခမ်းအနား (my) (a.hkam:a.na:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 儀式 (zh), 仪式 (zh) (yíshì), 典禮 (zh), 典礼 (zh) (diǎnlǐ)

• Czech: rituál (cs) m, obřad (cs) m
• Danish: ritual n
• Dutch: ritueel (nl) n
• Egyptian: (jrw)
• Esperanto: ritaro, ritualo
• Estonian: rituaal
• Finnish: rituaali (fi)
• French: rituel (fr) m
• Galician: ritual
• Georgian: რიტუალი (riṭuali)
• German: Ritual (de) n
• Greek: τελετουργικό (el) n (teletourgikó)

  Ancient: τελετή f (teletḗ)

• Hebrew: טֶקֶס‎ (he) m (tékes)
• Hindi: अनुष्ठान (hi) m (anuṣṭhān)
• Hungarian: szertartás (hu), rítus (hu), rituálé (hu)
• Indonesian: ritual (id)
• Irish: deasghnáth m
• Italian: rituale (it) m
• Japanese: 儀式 (ja) (ぎしき, gishiki), 祭祀 (ja) (さいし, saishi)
• Kashubian: ritual m, obrząd m
• Kazakh: ырым (yrym), рәсім (kk) (räsım)
• Khmer: ពិធី (km) (pithii), វិធី (km) (vithii)

• Korean: 의식(儀式) (ko) (uisik), 의례(儀禮) (ko) (uirye), 제사(祭祀) (ko) (jesa)
• Kyrgyz: ырым (ky) (ırım)
• Lao: ພິທີ (phi thī), ພິທີກຳ (phi thī kam)
• Latin: ritus m, caerimōnia (la) f
• Latvian: rituāls (lv) m, rits (lv) m
• Lithuanian: ritualas m
• Macedonian: ритуа́л m (rituál), обред m (obred)
• Maori: whakaritenga, ritenga
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: rituel m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ritual n

  Nynorsk: ritual n

• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: آیین‎ (fa) (âyin), مراسم‎ (fa) (marâsem)
• Polish: rytuał (pl) m, obrządek (pl) m, obrzęd (pl) m
• Portuguese: ritual (pt) m, rito (pt) m
• Romanian: ritual (ro) n
• Russian: ритуа́л (ru) m (rituál), обря́д (ru) m (obrjád)
• Scots: reetual
• Scottish Gaelic: deas-ghnàth m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀бред m, риту̀а̄л m

  Roman: òbred (sh) m, ritùāl (sh) m

• Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: rituál m, obrad m
• Slovene: ritual m, obred (sl) m
• Spanish: ritual (es) m
• Swedish: ritual (sv) c
• Tagalog: sulinaw
• Tajik: маросим (marosim), расм (tg) (rasm), оин (tg) (oyin)
• Thai: พิธี (th) (pí-tii), พิธีกรรม (pí-tii-gam)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ayin (tr), ritüel (tr), merasim (tr)
• Ukrainian: ритуа́л m (rytuál), обря́д m (obrjád)
• Uzbek: marosim (uz)
• Vietnamese: lễ nghi (vi), nghi lễ (vi), nghi thức (vi)
• Welsh: defod (cy)

Anagrams

• litura

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ritualis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ri.tuˈal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

ritual (masculine and feminine plural rituals)

1. ritual

Noun

ritual m (plural rituals)

1. ritual

Related terms

• ritu

Further reading

• “ritual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ritual”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “ritual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ritual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˌʁituˈæˀl]

Noun

ritual n (singular definite ritualet, plural indefinite ritualer)

1. ritual

   Synonym: ritus

Declension

Declension of ritual

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ritual	ritualet	ritualer	ritualerne
genitive	rituals	ritualets	ritualers	ritualernes

References

• “ritual” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Ladin

Adjective

ritual m (feminine singular rituala, masculine plural rituai, feminine plural rituales)

1. ritual

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ritualis, from ritus.

Noun

ritual n (definite singular ritualet, indefinite plural ritual or ritualer, definite plural rituala or ritualene)

1. ritual

References

• “ritual” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ritualis, from ritus.

Noun

ritual n (definite singular ritualet, indefinite plural ritual, definite plural rituala)

1. ritual

References

• “ritual” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁi.tuˈaw/ [hi.tʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁiˈtwaw/ [hiˈtwaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁi.tuˈaw/ [hi.tʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁiˈtwaw/ [hiˈtwaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁi.tuˈaw/ [χi.tʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁiˈtwaw/ [χiˈtwaʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈtwal/ [ʁiˈtwaɫ]

• Hyphenation: ri‧tu‧al

Adjective

ritual m or f (plural rituais)

1. ritual

Noun

ritual m (plural rituais)

1. ritual

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Romanian

Etymology

From French rituel or Italian rituale.

Noun

ritual n (plural rituali)

1. ritual

Declension

Declension of ritual

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ritual	ritualul	(niște) rituali	ritualile
genitive/dative	(unui) ritual	ritualului	(unor) rituali	ritualilor
vocative	ritualule		ritualilor

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ritǔaːl/
• Hyphenation: ri‧tu‧al

Noun

ritùāl m (Cyrillic spelling риту̀а̄л)

1. ritual

Declension

Declension of ritual

	singular	plural
nominative	ritùāl	rituali
genitive	rituála	rituala
dative	ritualu	ritualima
accusative	ritual	rituale
vocative	rituale	rituali
locative	ritualu	ritualima
instrumental	ritualom	ritualima

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ritualis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riˈtwal/, [riˈt̪wal]

Adjective

ritual (plural rituales)

1. ritual

Noun

ritual m (plural rituales)

1. rite
2. ritual

Derived terms

• ritualismo
• ritualista
• ritualmente

Further reading

• “ritual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

ritual c or n

1. ritual

Declension

Declension of ritual
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ritual	ritualen	ritualer	ritualerna
Genitive	rituals	ritualens	ritualers	ritualernas

Declension of ritual
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ritual	ritualet	ritual	ritualen
Genitive	rituals	ritualets	rituals	ritualens

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ritualenlig
• ritualhandling
• ritualisera

• ritualisering
• ritualism
• ritualist

• ritualistisk
• ritualmord
• ritualmässig

• ritualslakt

Related terms

• rit
• rituell

References

• ritual in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ritual in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ritual in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)