festival

See also Festival

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɛstəvəl/

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Adjective

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

Noun

festival (plural festivals)

1. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
2. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

Related terms

• festive
• festivities

Translations

celebration

• Afrikaans: fees (af)
• Arabic: عيد (ar) (ʿīd) m
• Armenian: տոն (hy) (ton), փառատոն (hy) (p’aṙaton)
• Basque: jai (eu)
• Bulgarian: празненство (bg) (práznestvo) n, фестивал (bg) (festivál) m
• Chamicuro: meesa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 節慶 (cmn), 节庆 (cmn) (jiéqìng), 節日 (cmn), 节日 (cmn) (jiérì), 節 (cmn), 节 (cmn) (jié)

• Czech: festival (cs)
• Danish: festival (da) c
• Dutch: festival (nl) n
• Esperanto: festivalo (eo)
• Finnish: festivaali (fi)
• French: festival (fr) m
• Georgian: ფესტივალი (ka) (pʻestivali)
• German: Festival (de) n
• Greek: φεστιβάλ (el) (festivál)
• Hindi: त्योहार (hi) (tyōhār), उत्सव (hi) (utsav), पर्व (hi) (parva)
• Irish: fleá (ga) f
• Italian: mostra (it), rassegna (it), festival (it)
• Japanese: 祭り (ja) (まつり, matsuri), 祭典 (ja) (さいてん, saiten), 祝祭 (ja) (しゅくさい, shukusai)

• Korean: 축제 (ko) (chukje) (祝祭 (ko))
• Latin: feria (la), festum (la), festivitas (la) f
• Manx: ard-laa (gv) m
• Norwegian: festival (no) m
• Persian: جشنواره (fa) (jašnvâre)
• Polish: festiwal (pl) m
• Portuguese: festival (pt)
• Russian: фестиваль (ru) (festiválʹ) m, праздник (ru) (prázdnik) m, празднество (ru) (prázdnestvo) n
• Sanskrit: महोत्सव (sa) (mahotsava)
• Scottish Gaelic: féill (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фестивал (sh) m, празник (sh) m

  Roman: festival (sh) m, praznik (sh) m

• Spanish: festival (es) m
• Swahili: tamasha (sw)
• Swedish: festival (sv) c
• Telugu: పండుగ (panDuga)
• Thai: งานฉลอง (th) (ngaan chà-lŏng), มหกรรม (th) (má-hà-gam)
• Turkish: festival (tr), şenlik (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngày hội (vi), đại hội liên hoan (vi), hội diễn (vi)
• Welsh: gŵyl (cy) m and f

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Czech

Noun

festival m

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɛs.ti.val/

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Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

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Italian

Etymology

From English festival.

Noun

festival m (invariable)

1. festival
2. worker's festival

Synonyms

• mostra
• rassegna

Related terms

• festivaliere
• festivaliero

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English festival.

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

1. festival

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

1. festival

Declension

    declension of festival

	singular	plural
nominative	festìvāl	festivali
genitive	festivála	festivala
dative	festivalu	festivalima
accusative	festival	festivale
vocative	festivale	festivali
locative	festivalu	festivalima
instrumental	festivalom	festivalima

See also

• praznik

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Spanish

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

1. festival

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Turkish

Etymology

From French festival.

Noun

festival

1. festival

Synonyms

• şenlik