English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English ǣfnung, from æfnian < æfen (from Proto-Germanic *ēbandaz), corresponding to even (Etymology 3) + -ing.
Pronunciation[edit]
evening (plural evenings)
- The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
- The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, The Mirror and the Lamp[1]:
- That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
- (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
- It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
time of day
- Afrikaans: aand (af)
- Ainu: アンチカㇻ (ancikar)
- Albanian: mbrëmje (sq)
- Arabic: مساء (ar) (masaa') m
- Egyptian Arabic: ليل (lel) m, مساء (masaʔ) m, آخر النهار (aaxer el nahar) m
- Armenian: երեկո (hy) (ereko), (colloquial) իրիկուն (hy) (irikun)
- Old Armenian: երեկոյ (erekoy)
- Aromanian: searã (rup) f
- Azeri: axşam (az)
- Belarusian: увечар (be) (uvéčar) m, ўвечар (be) (ŭvéčar) m, вечар (be) (véčar) m
- Bengali: সন্ধ্যা (bn) (sandhyā)
- Bulgarian: вечер (bg) (véčer) m
- Burmese: ညနေခင်း (my) (nya.negin:)
- Catalan: tarda (ca) f (early evening), vespre (ca) m (late evening)
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴷⴳⴳⵯⴰⵜ (tadggʷat), ⵜⴰⵎⴻⴷⴷⵉⵜ (tameddit) f
- Chamicuro: chpos̈hka
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 晚上 (cmn) (wǎnshang), 黃昏 (cmn), 黄昏 (cmn) (huánghūn)
- Coptic: ⲣⲟⲩϩⲉ (rouhe)
- Crimean Tatar: aqşam
- Czech: večer (cs) m
- Dalmatian: saira f, viaspro m
- Danish: aften (da)
- Dutch: avond (nl)
- Egyptian: mšrw
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- Erzya: чокшне
- Esperanto: vespero (eo)
- Estonian: õhtu (et)
- Faroese: kvøld (fo) n, aftan (fo) m
- Finnish: ilta (fi)
- French: soir (fr) m
- Friulian: sere f
- Georgian: საღამო (ka) (saḡamo)
- German: Abend (de) m
- Greek: εσπέρα (el) (espéra) f, βράδυ (el) (vrádhy) n, δειλινό (el) (dhilinó) n
- Greenlandic: unnuk (kl)
- Guernésiais: saer m, seraïe f
- Hebrew: ערב (he) (erev) m
- Hindi: शाम (hi) (śām) f, विकाल (hi) (vikāl)
- Hungarian: este (hu)
- Icelandic: kvöld (is) n, kveld (is) n, aftann (is) m
- Ido: vespero (io)
- Inari Sami: eehid
- Irish: tráthnóna (ga) m
- Italian: sera (it) f
- Japanese: 夕方 (ja) (ゆうがた, yūgata), 夜 (ja) (よる, yoru)
- Jèrriais: sé m
- Khmer: ល្ងាច (km) (lŋiech)
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- Korean: 저녁 (ko) (jeonyeok)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ئێواره
- Lao: ຍາມແລງ (lo)
- Latgalian: vokors
- Latin: vesper (la)
- Latvian: vakars (lv) m
- Lithuanian: vakaras (lt) m
- Livonian: ȭdõg
- Low German: Avend (nds)
- Macedonian: вечер (mk) (véčer) m
- Malay: petang (ms)
- Maltese: għaxija (mt), filgħaxija (mt)
- Manx: fastyr (gv) m
- Mazanderani: شوسری (šuseri)
- Norwegian: kveld (no)
- Occitan: ser (oc), seir (oc), soir (oc)
- Okinawan: ゆさんでぃ (yusandi)
- Old Norse: kveld n, aptann m
- Persian: شب (fa) (šab), عصر (fa) (asr), شام (fa) (šâm)
- Polish: wieczór (pl) m
- Portuguese: tarde (pt), anoitecer (pt)
- Romanian: seară (ro)
- Romansch: saira (rm) f, sera (rm) f, seira (rm) f
- Russian: вечер (ru) (véčer) m
- Sanskrit: संध्या (sa) (sandhyā), सायंकाल (sa) (sāyaṃkāla)
- Sardinian: sera (sc), sero (sc)
- Scottish Gaelic: feasgar (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вече (sh) n, вечер (sh) f
- Roman: veče (sh) n, večer (sh) f
- Shona: maneru (sn)
- Skolt Sami: jeä´ǩǩääž
- Slovak: večer (sk) m
- Slovene: večér (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wjacor m
- Spanish: tarde (es) f
- Swahili: jioni (sw)
- Swedish: kväll (sv), afton (sv) (dated)
- Telugu: సాయంత్రం (te) (saayamtram), సాయంకాలం (te) (saayamkaalam)
- Thai: เย็น (th) (yen)
- Turkish: akşam (tr), suare (tr)
- Turkmen: agşam (tk)
- Ukrainian: вечір (uk) (véčir) m
- Urdu: شام (ur) (śām) f, وكال (ur) (vakāl)
- Uyghur: ئاخشام (ug) (axsham)
- Vietnamese: buổi chiều (vi), buổi tối (vi)
- Volapük: soar (vo)
- Welsh: noswaith (cy), hwyr (cy), (occasion) noson (cy)
- West Frisian: jûn (fy), jûntiid (fy)
- Yiddish: אָוונט (yi) (ovnt) m
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figurative: concluding time period
Etymology 2[edit]
Inflected forms.
Pronunciation[edit]
evening
- Present participle of even.
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