Twelve Days of Christmas

English

Noun

The Twelve Days of Christmas

The Twelve days of Christmas

1. The season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany; Christmas season, Christmas time, Christmastide, Twelvetide. The Christmas season traditionally ended with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6.
2. An 18th-century English Christmas carol which describes a series of successively grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

Synonyms

• Christmas
• Christmas season
• Christmastide
• Christmas time
• Twelvetide

Translations

the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany

• Arabic: اِثْنَا عَشَر يَوْمَا مِن عِيد الْمِيلَاد (iṯnā ʕašar yawmā min ʕīd al-mīlād)
• Belarusian: свя́ткі f pl (svjátki), каля́дныя свя́ткі f pl (kaljádnyja svjátki)
• Bengali: বড়দিনের বারো দিন (boṛdiner barō din)
• Finnish: joulunaika (fi)
• French: Douze jours de Noël
• Galician: doce días de Nadal
• German: zwölf Weihnachtstage pl, die Zwölften pl
• Greek: Δώδεκα ημέρες των Χριστουγέννων (Dódeka iméres ton Christougénnon)
• Hindi: क्रिस्मस के बारह दिन (krismas ke bārah din)
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• Italian: Dodici giorni di Natale
• Japanese: クリスマスの十二日間
• Korean: 크리스마스의 열두 일 (keuriseumaseuui yeoldu il)
• Portuguese: Doze dias de natal
• Russian: свя́тки (ru) f pl (svjátki), Рожде́ственские свя́тки f pl (Roždéstvenskije svjátki), Двена́дцать дней Рождества́ pl (Dvenádcatʹ dnej Roždestvá), коля́ды (ru) f pl (koljády) (regional), святы́е дни m pl (svjatýje dni), святы́е m pl (svjatýje)
• Spanish: Doce días de Natal
• Tibetan: བཅུ་གཉིས་ཉི་མའི་ཡེ་ཤུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར། (bcu gnyis nyi ma'i ye shu'i 'khrungs skar)
• Ukrainian: свя́тки f pl (svjátky)

See also

• Advent
• Epiphany