festival

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• /ˈfɛstəvəl/ weak vowel merger
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From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive + -al. Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).

192 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: fees — event or community gathering
• Albanian: festival — event or community gathering
• Albanian: festë — event or community gathering
• Arabic: عِيد (ʕīd) — event or community gathering
• Arabic: مَهْرَجَان (mahrajān) — event or community gathering
• Armenian: տոն (ton) — event or community gathering
• Armenian: փառատոն (pʻaṙaton) — event or community gathering
• Azerbaijani: festival — event or community gathering
• Azerbaijani: bayram — event or community gathering
• Bashkir: байрам (bayram) — event or community gathering
• Basque: jai — event or community gathering
• Belarusian: фестыва́ль (fjestyválʹ) — event or community gathering
• Belarusian: свя́та (svjáta) — event or community gathering
• Bengali: উৎসব (utśob) — event or community gathering
• Bulgarian: пра́зненство (práznenstvo) — event or community gathering
• Bulgarian: фестива́л (festivál) — event or community gathering
• Bulgarian: пра́зник (práznik) — event or community gathering
• Burmese: ပွဲတော် (pwai:tau) — event or community gathering
• Burmese: ပွဲ (pwai:) — event or community gathering
• Catalan: festival — event or community gathering
• Chamicuro: meesa — event or community gathering
• Chinese Mandarin: 節慶 /节庆 (jiéqìng) — event or community gathering
• Chinese Mandarin: 節日 /节日 (jiérì) — event or community gathering
• Chinese Mandarin: 節 /节 (jié) — event or community gathering
• Chinese Mandarin: 會演 /会演 (huìyǎn) — event or community gathering
• Chinese Mandarin: 匯演 /汇演 (huìyǎn) — event or community gathering
• Czech: festival — event or community gathering
• Czech: svátek — event or community gathering
• Danish: festival — event or community gathering
• Dutch: festival — event or community gathering
• Dutch: feest — event or community gathering
• Egyptian: H-b-W4 (ḥꜣb) — event or community gathering
• Esperanto: festivalo — event or community gathering
• Estonian: pidustused — event or community gathering
• Estonian: festival — event or community gathering
• Faroese: hátíð — event or community gathering
• Finnish: juhlat — event or community gathering
• Finnish: festivaali — event or community gathering
• French: festival — event or community gathering
• French: fête — event or community gathering
• Galician: festival — event or community gathering
• Galician: festa — event or community gathering
• Georgian: ფესტივალი (pesṭivali) — event or community gathering
• Georgian: ფესტი (pesṭi) — event or community gathering
• Georgian: დღესასწაული (dɣesasc̣auli) — event or community gathering
• German: Festival — event or community gathering
• German: Fest — event or community gathering
• German: Fäscht — event or community gathering
• Greek: φεστιβάλ (festivál) — event or community gathering
• Ancient Greek: πανήγυρις (panḗguris) — event or community gathering
• Gujarati: ઓચ્છવ (occhav) — event or community gathering
• Gujarati: મહોચ્છવ (mahocchav) — event or community gathering
• Gujarati: તહેવાર (tahevār) — event or community gathering
• Hebrew: פֶסטִיבָל (festivál) — event or community gathering
• Hebrew: חַג (khag) — event or community gathering
• Hindi: त्योहार (tyohār) — event or community gathering
• Hindi: जश्न (jaśn) — event or community gathering
• Hindi: उत्सव (utsav) — event or community gathering
• Hindi: पर्व (parv) — event or community gathering
• Hindi: मेला (melā) — event or community gathering
• Hindi: ईद (īd) — event or community gathering
• White Hmong: rooj noj mov — event or community gathering
• Hungarian: fesztivál — event or community gathering
• Hungarian: ünnepség — event or community gathering
• Icelandic: hátíð — event or community gathering
• Ido: festivalo — event or community gathering
• Indonesian: festival — event or community gathering
• Indonesian: pesta — event or community gathering
• Indonesian: perayaan — event or community gathering
• Ingrian: guljanja — event or community gathering
• Irish: fleá — event or community gathering
• Italian: festival — event or community gathering
• Italian: mostra — event or community gathering
• Italian: rassegna — event or community gathering
• Italian: sagra — event or community gathering
• Italian: festivale — event or community gathering
• Japanese: 祭り (matsuri) — event or community gathering
• Japanese: 祭典 (saiten) — event or community gathering
• Japanese: 祝祭 (shukusai) — event or community gathering
• Jingpho: poi — event or community gathering
• Kannada: ಹಬ್ಬ (habba) — event or community gathering
• Kazakh: мейрам (meiram) — event or community gathering
• Kazakh: мереке (mereke) — event or community gathering
• Kazakh: фестиваль (festival) — event or community gathering
• Khmer: បុណ្យ (bon) — event or community gathering
• Khmer: មហោស្រព (mĕəʼhaosrɑp) — event or community gathering
• Khmer: ពិធីបុណ្យ (pithii bon) — event or community gathering
• Korean: 축제 (chukje) — event or community gathering
• Korean: 축일 (chugil) — event or community gathering
• Central Kurdish: فێستیڤاڵ (fêstîvall) — event or community gathering
• Kyrgyz: майрам (mayram) — event or community gathering
• Kyrgyz: фестиваль (festival) — event or community gathering
• Lao: ງັນ (ngan) — event or community gathering
• Lao: ງານ (ngān) — event or community gathering
• Lao: ມະຫະກໍາ (ma ha kam) — event or community gathering
• Lao: ງານບຸນ (ngān bun) — event or community gathering
• Lao: ກອງບຸນ (kǭng bun) — event or community gathering
• Lao: ມື້ພັກ (mư̄ phak) — event or community gathering
• Lao: ເທດສະການ (thēt sa kān) — event or community gathering
• Latin: feria — event or community gathering
• Latin: festum — event or community gathering
• Latin: festivitas — event or community gathering
• Latvian: festivāls — event or community gathering
• Latvian: svētki — event or community gathering
• Lithuanian: festivalis — event or community gathering
• Lithuanian: šventė — event or community gathering
• Macedonian: фестива́л (festivál) — event or community gathering
• Macedonian: празник (praznik) — event or community gathering
• Malay: perayaan — event or community gathering
• Malay: festival — event or community gathering
• Malayalam: ഉത്സവം (utsavaṁ) — event or community gathering
• Malayalam: മേള (mēḷa) — event or community gathering
• Malayalam: പെരുന്നാൾ (perunnāḷ) — event or community gathering
• Manx: ard-laa — event or community gathering
• Māori: taiopenga — event or community gathering
• Māori: hui taurima — event or community gathering
• Mòcheno: fest — event or community gathering
• Mongolian: баяр ёслол (bajar joslol) — event or community gathering
• Khiamniungan Naga: sǖmaī — event or community gathering
• Nepali: पर्व (parva) — event or community gathering
• Nepali: चाड (cāḍ) — event or community gathering
• Norwegian Bokmål: festival — event or community gathering
• Norwegian Nynorsk: festival — event or community gathering
• Old English: frēols — event or community gathering
• Pali: mahussava — event or community gathering
• Pashto: عيد ('id) — event or community gathering
• Pashto: جشن (ǰašᶕn) — event or community gathering
• Pashto: فستيوال (festiwāl) — event or community gathering
• Iranian Persian: جَشْنْوارِه (jašnvâre) — event or community gathering
• Iranian Persian: فِسْتیوال (festivâl) — event or community gathering
• Iranian Persian: عِیْد (eyd) — event or community gathering
• Iranian Persian: جَشْن (jašn) — event or community gathering
• Polish: festiwal — event or community gathering
• Polish: święto — event or community gathering
• Portuguese: festival — event or community gathering
• Quechua: raymi — event or community gathering
• Romanian: festival — event or community gathering
• Russian: фестива́ль (festiválʹ) — event or community gathering
• Russian: пра́здник (prázdnik) — event or community gathering
• Russian: пра́зднество (prázdnestvo) — event or community gathering
• Sanskrit: उत्सव (utsava) — event or community gathering
• Sanskrit: महोत्सव (mahotsava) — event or community gathering
• Scottish Gaelic: féill — event or community gathering
• Serbo-Croatian: фестѝва̄л — event or community gathering
• Serbo-Croatian: пра̑знӣк — event or community gathering
• Serbo-Croatian: festìvāl — event or community gathering
• Serbo-Croatian: prȃznīk — event or community gathering
• Shan: ပွႆး (páui) — event or community gathering
• Sholaga: ಹಬ್ಬ (habba) — event or community gathering
• Sinhalese: උත්සවය (utsawaya) — event or community gathering
• Sinhalese: සැණකෙලිය (sæṇakeliya) — event or community gathering
• Slovak: festival — event or community gathering
• Slovak: sviatok — event or community gathering
• Slovene: festival — event or community gathering
• Slovene: praznik — event or community gathering
• Spanish: festival — event or community gathering
• Swahili: tamasha — event or community gathering
• Swedish: festival — event or community gathering
• Tajik: ид (id) — event or community gathering
• Tajik: фестивал (festival) — event or community gathering
• Tajik: ҷашн (jašn) — event or community gathering
• Tajik: ҷашнвора (jašnvora) — event or community gathering
• Tatar: бәйрәм (bäyräm) — event or community gathering
• Telugu: పండుగ (paṇḍuga) — event or community gathering
• Thai: งานฉลอง (ngaan-chà-lɔ̌ɔng) — event or community gathering
• Thai: มหกรรม (má-hà-gam) — event or community gathering
• Tibetan: དུས་ཆེན (dus chen) — event or community gathering
• Turkish: festival — event or community gathering
• Turkish: şenlik — event or community gathering
• Turkish: bayram — event or community gathering
• Turkmen: festiwal — event or community gathering
• Turkmen: baýram — event or community gathering
• Ukrainian: фестива́ль (festyválʹ) — event or community gathering
• Ukrainian: свя́то (svjáto) — event or community gathering
• Urdu: تِہْوار (tihvār) — event or community gathering
• Urdu: عِید ('īd) — event or community gathering
• Urdu: جَشْن (jaśn) — event or community gathering
• Urdu: میلَہ (mela) — event or community gathering
• Uyghur: بايرام (bayram) — event or community gathering
• Uyghur: فېستىۋال (fëstiwal) — event or community gathering
• Uzbek: festival — event or community gathering
• Uzbek: bayram — event or community gathering
• Vietnamese: ngày hội — event or community gathering
• Vietnamese: đại hội liên hoan — event or community gathering
• Vietnamese: hội diễn — event or community gathering
• Vietnamese: lễ hội — event or community gathering
• Vietnamese: lễ tết — event or community gathering
• Welsh: gŵyl — event or community gathering
• Yakut: бырааһынньык (bïraahïnňïk) — event or community gathering
• Yiddish: יאָמטעוו (yomtev) — event or community gathering
• Yiddish: פֿעסטיוואַל (festival) — event or community gathering
• Yucatec Maya: chaʼan — event or community gathering