Holy Week

English

This parade is celebrating Holy Week in Chichicastenango, Guatemala.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Holy Week

2. The week preceding Easter; each of its days is a holy day.

   Holonyms: Eastertime < calendar

   Meronyms: Palm Sunday; Holy Monday; Holy Tuesday; Holy Wednesday, Good Wednesday, Spy Wednesday; Holy Thursday, Maundy Thursday, Green Thursday, Sheer Thursday, White Thursday; Holy Friday, Good Friday, Black Friday, Golden Friday, Great Friday, Pasch of the Cross; Holy Saturday, Black Saturday

   Comeronym: Easter Week (the week following on from Easter Sunday, inclusive of it)

Translations

week preceding Easter

• Armenian: Ավագ շաբաթ (Avag šabatʻ)
• Catalan: Setmana Santa (ca) f
• Cebuano: Semana Santa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖週 / 圣周 (Shèngzhōu)

• Dutch: Goede Week (nl) f or m
• Finnish: hiljainen viikko (fi)
• French: semaine sainte (fr) f
• Georgian: ვნების კვირა (ka) (vnebis ḳvira)
• German: Karwoche (de) f, Heilige Woche f, Stille Woche f, Osterwoche (de) f (ambiguous)
• Greek: Μεγάλη Εβδομάδα (el) f (Megáli Evdomáda)
• Hungarian: nagyhét (hu)
• Icelandic: páskavika f, dymbilvika f, kyrravika f, dymbildagavika (is) f
• Indonesian: pekan suci
• Ingrian: Strastnoi Viikko
• Irish: An tSeachtain Mhór f, Seachtain na Páise f
• Italian: Settimana Santa f
• Japanese: 聖週間 (ja) (seishūkan)
• Kapampangan: Maleldo (colloquially), Mal a Yaldo (formally)
• Maltese: Ġimgħa Mqaddsa f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: den stille uke f or m

• Polish: Wielki Tydzień (pl) m
• Portuguese: Semana Santa (pt) f
• Russian: страстна́я неде́ля f (strastnája nedélja)
• Scottish Gaelic: Seachdain a' Cheusaidh f
• Spanish: Semana Santa (es) f, Semana de Turismo (officially in Uruguay)
• Swahili: Juma Kuu
• Swedish: stilla veckan (sv) c, passionsveckan (sv) c, dymmelveckan (sv) c
• Tagalog: Semana Santa, Mahal na Araw
• Turkish: Çile Haftası, Kutsal Hafta
• Vietnamese: Tuần Thánh