Palm Sunday

English

Etymology

From the palm fronds supposedly laid before Jesus during his entrance to Jerusalem preceding his crucifixion.

Noun

Palm Sunday (plural Palm Sundays)

1. The sixth Sunday in Lent, the Sunday before Easter.

Synonyms

• Fig Sunday; Passion Sunday (rare, inexact)

Translations

Sunday before Easter

• Armenian: Ծաղկազարդ (Caġkazard)
• Danish: palmesøndag c
• Dutch: Palmzondag (nl) m
• Esperanto: palmodimanĉo, palmofesto (eo) m
• Ewe: Debaya Kɔsiɖa
• Faroese: pálmasunnudagur m
• Finnish: palmusunnuntai (fi)
• French: dimanche des Rameaux (fr) m
• Galician: Domingo de Ramos
• Georgian: ბზობა (ka) (bzoba)
• German: Palmsonntag (de) m
• Greek: Κυριακή των Βαΐων (el) f (Kyriakí ton Vaḯon)
• Hungarian: virágvasárnap (hu)
• Ido: palmo-sundio
• Irish: Domhnach na Pailme m
• Italian: Domenica delle Palme (it) f
• Latvian: Pūpolu diena
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• Macedonian: Цве́тници f pl (Cvétnici)
• Maltese: Ħadd il-Palm
• Norman: Desmanche des Rameaux m (Guernsey), Dînmanche des Rameaux m (Jersey), Pâque flieuthie f (Jersey), Pâques flleuries f pl (continental Normandy)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: palmesøndag (no) m

  Nynorsk: palmesundag m, palmesøndag m

• Old English: Palmsunnandæġ m
• Old Norse: palmasunnudagr m, palmadróttinsdagr m
• Polish: Niedziela Palmowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Domingo de Ramos (pt) m
• Romanian: Duminica Floriilor f
• Russian: ве́рбное воскресе́нье n (vérbnoje voskresénʹje)
• Spanish: domingo de ramos
• Swedish: palmsöndag (sv) c
• Tagalog: Linggo ng Palaspas, Linggo-de-Ramos
• Udi: заьраьзаьртаьр (zäräzärtär)
• Urdu: کھجور کا اتوار