Shavuot

English

Alternative forms

• Shabuos, Shabuot, Shabuoth, Shavuos, Shavuoth, Shevuos, Shevuoth, Shovuos
• Shabungoth (Sephardic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת (shavu'ót).

Pronunciation

• Israeli/Sephardic Hebrew influenced:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɑvuˈoʊt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃævuˈɒt/
• Yiddish/Ashkenazic Hebrew influenced:
  • IPA^(key): /ʃəˈvuːəs/

Proper noun

Shavuot

2. (Judaism)
   1. A Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the omer (“sheaf of barley”) is offered.

      Synonyms: Feast of Weeks, Festival of Weeks, Pentecost

      • 1971, United States Congress: Senate: Foreign Relations, Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty:

        Major Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Succoth, Chanukah, Passover and Shavuot have been celebrated with Hebrew prayers and songs.

      • 1975, Israel Zinberg, Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period:

        On the first day of Shavuot the Ten Commandments were explained to the people homiletically in the vernacular.

   2. A ceremony held on that day to commemorate the giving of the Torah (“first five books of the Hebrew scriptures”) to Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

      Synonyms: Feast of Weeks, Festival of Weeks, Pentecost

Translations

Jewish harvest festival on the sixth day of Sivan

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can

  Judeo-Arabic: שבועות (shabuʕot)

• Aramaic:

  Lishana Deni: איד זיארא (ʾeḏ-zyāṛa), איז זיארא (ʾezyāṛa) (Zakho)

• Catalan: Pentecosta f
• Dutch: Wekenfeest (nl) n
• Finnish: šavuot, helluntai (fi)
• French: Chavouot
• German: Schawuot (de) n pl, Wochenfest n, Erntefest (de) n
• Hebrew: שָׁבוּעוֹת (he) m (shavu'ót)
• Italian: Pentecoste (it) f
• Luxembourgish: Päischten (lb)
• Māori: Petekoha
• Marathi: शावुओथ (śāvuoth)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pinse (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: pins m or f, pinse m or f

• Polish: Pięćdziesiątnica (pl) f, Szawuot m, Święto Tygodni n, Święto Zbiorów n, Święto Żniw n
• Portuguese: Shavuot m
• Russian: шавуо́т m (šavuót)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: שבֿועות m (shvues)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת.

Proper noun

Shavuot m

1. (Judaism) Shavuot; Pentecost (Jewish spring festival)