vigil

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• /ˈvɪd͡ʒəl/
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From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: vixilia — keeping awake
• Bulgarian: бде́ние (bdénie) — keeping awake
• Catalan: vetlla — keeping awake
• Catalan: vigília — keeping awake
• Cebuano: tukaw — keeping awake
• Chinese Mandarin: 值夜 (zhíyè) — keeping awake
• Czech: bdění — keeping awake
• Dutch: waak — keeping awake
• Dutch: wake — keeping awake
• Finnish: valvominen — keeping awake
• Finnish: valvojaiset — keeping awake
• Finnish: yövartio — keeping awake
• French: veille — keeping awake
• Galician: vixilia — keeping awake
• Georgian: სიფხიზლე (sipxizle) — keeping awake
• Georgian: ფხიზლობა (pxizloba) — keeping awake
• German: Wache — keeping awake
• German: Nachtwache — keeping awake
• Greek: αγρυπνία (agrypnía) — keeping awake
• Irish: cathais — keeping awake
• Italian: veglia — keeping awake
• Japanese: 徹夜 (tetsuya) — keeping awake
• Japanese: 寝ずの番 (nezu no ban) — keeping awake
• Korean: 밤샘 (bamsaem) — keeping awake
• Korean: 밤새움 (bamsae'um) — keeping awake
• Latin: vigilia — keeping awake
• Polish: czuwanie — keeping awake
• Portuguese: vigília — keeping awake
• Romanian: veghe — keeping awake
• Romanian: gardă — keeping awake
• Russian: бде́ние (bdénije) — keeping awake
• Serbo-Croatian: бдје́ње — keeping awake
• Serbo-Croatian: бди̏је̄ње — keeping awake
• Serbo-Croatian: bdjénje — keeping awake
• Serbo-Croatian: bdȉjēnje — keeping awake
• Slovak: bdenie — keeping awake
• Spanish: vigilia — keeping awake
• Swedish: vaka — keeping awake
• Tagalog: lamay — keeping awake
• Ukrainian: бдіння (bdinnja) — keeping awake
• Ukrainian: чування (čuvannja) — keeping awake
• Ukrainian: неспання (nespannja) — keeping awake
• Bulgarian: дежурство (dežurstvo) — period of observation or surveillance
• Chinese Mandarin: 警戒 (jǐngjiè) — period of observation or surveillance
• Czech: hlídka — period of observation or surveillance
• Czech: stráž — period of observation or surveillance
• Esperanto: vigilo — period of observation or surveillance
• Finnish: vartio — period of observation or surveillance
• Finnish: vartiovuoro — period of observation or surveillance
• Finnish: vahti — period of observation or surveillance
• Galician: vixilia — period of observation or surveillance
• German: Wache — period of observation or surveillance
• German: Vigil — period of observation or surveillance
• Greek: επαγρύπνηση (epagrýpnisi) — period of observation or surveillance
• Japanese: 見張り (mihari) — period of observation or surveillance
• Japanese: 警戒 (keikai) — period of observation or surveillance
• Latin: vigilia — period of observation or surveillance
• Plautdietsch: Wacht — period of observation or surveillance
• Portuguese: vigia — period of observation or surveillance
• Romanian: așteptare — period of observation or surveillance
• Romanian: observare — period of observation or surveillance
• Ukrainian: пильнування (pylʹnuvannja) — period of observation or surveillance
• Ukrainian: варта (varta) — period of observation or surveillance
• Albanian: prag — eve of a religious festival
• Chinese Mandarin: 守夜祈禱 /守夜祈祷 (shǒuyè qídǎo) — eve of a religious festival
• Czech: vigilie — eve of a religious festival
• Finnish: aatto — eve of a religious festival
• Galician: vixilia — eve of a religious festival
• German: Vigil — eve of a religious festival
• German: Nachtwache — eve of a religious festival
• Greek: ολονυκτία (olonyktía) — eve of a religious festival
• Ancient Greek: παννυχίς (pannukhís) — eve of a religious festival
• Irish: bigil — eve of a religious festival
• Latin: pervigilium — eve of a religious festival
• Maltese: sahra — eve of a religious festival
• Portuguese: vigília — eve of a religious festival
• Spanish: vigilia — eve of a religious festival
• Spanish: víspera — eve of a religious festival
• Ukrainian: бдіння (bdinnja) — eve of a religious festival
• Ukrainian: чування (čuvannja) — eve of a religious festival
• Welsh: gwylnos — eve of a religious festival
• Arabic: اِعْتِصامٌ (iʕtiṣāmun) — quiet demonstration
• Finnish: hiljainen mielenosoitus — quiet demonstration
• French: veillée — quiet demonstration
• Galician: vixilia — quiet demonstration
• German: Mahnwache — quiet demonstration
• Russian: пикети́рование (piketírovanije) — quiet demonstration