Epiphany

See also: epiphany

English

Etymology

See epiphany.

Noun

Epiphany (plural Epiphanies) (Christianity)

1. The appearance of Jesus Christ to the Magi on the twelfth day after Christmas.
2. An annual Christian feast celebrating this event.
3. The day of the celebration, January 6th, or sometimes (in Western Christianity), the Sunday between January 2nd and 8th.
4. The season or time of the Christian church year either from the Epiphany feast day to Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent) or from the Epiphany feast day to the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

Synonyms

• Twelfth Day
• Twelfthtide, Twelvetide (one sense)

Translations

appearance of Jesus Christ to the Magi

• Finnish: epifania (fi)

Christian feast

• Aghwan: 𐔰𐕄𐕒𐕡𐕄𐕆𐔶𐕒𐕡𐕎 (aḳuḳhēun)
• Arabic: عِيد اَلْغِطَاس‎ m (ʿīd al-ḡiṭās), الْغِطَاس‎ m (al-ḡiṭās)
• Armenian: Հայտնություն (hy) (Haytnutʿyun)
• Aromanian: Pãtigiuni f
• Bulgarian: Богоявле́ние n (Bogojavlénie), Йордановден m (Jordanovden)
• Catalan: Dia de Reis (ca) f, Reis (ca) f, Epifania f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主顯節 (zh), 主显节 (zh) (Zhǔxiǎnjié)

• Czech: Epifanie f
• Danish: helligtrekongersdag c
• Dutch: Driekoningen (nl) m, Epifanie
• Esperanto: Epifanio
• Estonian: kolmekuningapäev
• Faroese: trettandi m, trettandadagur m, trettanda f
• Finnish: loppiainen (fi)
• French: Épiphanie (fr) f, fête des Rois f
• Galician: Epifanía (gl) f
• German: Dreikönigsfest (de) n, Erscheinung des Herrn (de) f, Heilige Drei Könige (de) pl or m
• Greek: Θεοφάνια (el) n pl (Theofánia), Φώτα (el) n pl (Fóta), Θεοφάνεια (el) (Theofáneia)
• Hungarian: vízkereszt (hu), epifánia (hu)
• Icelandic: þrettándi m
• Irish: Nollaig na mBan f, Eipeafáine f, Nollaig Bheag f

  Old Irish: notlaic becc f, notlaic stéille f

• Italian: Befana f, Epifania f
• Japanese: エピファニー (Epifanī), 公現祭 (こうげんさい, Kōgensai)
• Latvian: Triju Ķēniņu diena, Zvaigznes diena
• Lithuanian: Trys karaliai m pl
• Luxembourgish: Dräikinneksdag m
• Macedonian: Водици f pl (Vodici), Богојавление n (Bogojavlenie)
• Maltese: Tre Re, Epifanija
• Manx: Feailley Çhybbyrt Ushtey f, Laa Gymmyrt Ushtey m, Laa Çhebbal Ooashley m
• Maori: Whakaaturanga
• Norwegian: helligtrekongersdag m
• Polish: Objawienie Pańskie (pl) f, Epifania f
• Portuguese: Epifania (pt) f
• Romanian: Bobotează f
• Russian: Богоявле́ние (ru) n (Bogojavlénije), Явле́ние n (Javlénije), Эпифа́ния (ru) f (Epifánija)
• Scottish Gaelic: Fèill an Taisbeanaidh f, Là nan Trì Rìghrean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Богојављење n

  Roman: Bogojavljenje (sh) n

• Spanish: Epifanía f
• Swedish: Trettondedag jul, Trettondedagen, trettondag (sv) c
• Tagalog: Pista ng Tatlong Hari

day of the celebration

• Finnish: loppiainen (fi)

time of the Christian church year

• Finnish: härkäviikot (fi) pl (colloquial)

See also

• Advent
• Advent Sunday
• Christmastide
• Twelfth cake
• Twelfth Night
• Twelve Days of Christmas