carnival

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From French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, from the Latin phrase carnem levāre ("to put away meat").

carnival ‎(plural carnivals)

Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.

Carnival of Brazil‎

Venice Carnival‎
A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
  
  Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
(US) a traveling amusement park, called a funfair in UK English.

We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.‎

When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy.‎

Terms derived from "carnival"

festive occasion marked by parades

Arabic: كَرْنَفَال m ‎(karnafāl)
Asturian: antroxu (ast) m
Basque: inauteria
Belarusian: карнава́л m ‎(karnavál)
Bengali: কার্নিভাল ‎(karnibhal)
Bulgarian: карнава́л m ‎(karnavál)
Catalan: carnestoltes m, carnaval (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᎾᏛᏁᎵᏍᎬ ‎(anadvnelisgv)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 狂歡節 (zh), 狂欢节 (zh) ‎(kuánghuānjié), 嘉年華會 (zh), 嘉年华会 (zh) ‎(jiāniánhuá huì)
Czech: karneval (cs) m
Danish: karneval
Dutch: carnaval (nl)
Estonian: karneval
Finnish: karnevaali (fi)
French: carnaval (fr) m
Galician: entroido (gl)
Georgian: ყეენობა ‎(q̇eenoba), კარნავალი ‎(ḳarnavali)
German: Karneval (de) m, Fasching (de) m, Fastnacht (de) n
Greek: καρναβάλι (el) ‎(karnaváli)
Hebrew: קרנבל m
Hindi: कार्निवल ‎(kārnival)
Hungarian: karnevál (hu), farsang (hu)
Italian: carnevale (it) m

Japanese: カーニバル (ja) ‎(kānibaru), 謝肉祭 (ja) ‎(しゃにくさい, shanikusai)
Korean: 사육제 (ko) ‎(sayukje)
Latvian: karnevāls m
Lithuanian: karnavalas m
Macedonian: карневал m ‎(karneval)
Maltese: karnival m
Maori: hui taurima
Norwegian:

Bokmål: karneval (no) n

Nynorsk: karneval n
Persian: کارناوال (fa) ‎(kârnâvâl), کارنوال ‎(kârnevâl)
Polish: karnawał (pl) m
Portuguese: carnaval (pt) m
Russian: карнава́л (ru) m ‎(karnavál)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: карневал m, покладе pl

Roman: karneval (sh) m, poklade (sh) pl
Slovak: karneval m
Spanish: carnaval (es) m
Tagalog: karnabal
Telugu: జాతర (te) ‎(jātara)
Turkish: karnaval (tr)
Ukrainian: карнава́л m ‎(karnavál)
Vietnamese: hội hóa trang, hội trá hình, các-na-van