noun
Meaning 1
The 22 trumps of a deck of tarot cards.
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Phrase guide
major arcana
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Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: primêre tarotkaarte — Tarot cards
- Catalan: arcans majors — Tarot cards
- Catalan: triomfs majors — Tarot cards
- Chinese Mandarin: 大阿爾克那 /大阿尔克那 (dà ā'ěrkènà) — Tarot cards
- Czech: velká arkána — Tarot cards
- Dutch: grote arcana — Tarot cards
- Finnish: iso arkana — Tarot cards
- French: arcanes majeurs — Tarot cards
- German: Große Arcana — Tarot cards
- German: Trumpfkarten — Tarot cards
- German: Trionfi — Tarot cards
- Hungarian: nagy arkánum — Tarot cards
- Indonesian: arcana mayor — Tarot cards
- Irish: na rúnchártaí móra — Tarot cards
- Italian: arcani maggiori — Tarot cards
- Italian: trionfi — Tarot cards
- Japanese: 大アルカナ (dai arukana) — Tarot cards
- Norwegian: store arkana — Tarot cards
- Polish: wielkie arkana — Tarot cards
- Portuguese: arcanos maiores — Tarot cards
- Russian: ста́ршие арка́ны (stáršije arkány) — Tarot cards
- Slovak: veľké arkána — Tarot cards
- Spanish: arcanos mayores — Tarot cards
- Spanish: triunfos mayores — Tarot cards
- Swedish: arcana major — Tarot cards
- Swedish: stora arkana — Tarot cards