Twelve Days of Christmas

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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)
• 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