fasting

See also: fästing

English

Verb

fasting

1. present participle of fast

Noun

fasting (countable and uncountable, plural fastings)

1. abstinence from food
   • H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

     Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.

Translations

act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food

• Acehnese: puasa
• Albanian: agjërim (sq) m, kreshmë (sq) f
• Arabic: صَوْم m (ṣawm), صِيَام m (ṣiyām)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: צומא

  Syriac: ܨܰܘܡܳܐ

• Armenian: պաս (hy) (pas), ծոմ (hy) (com), պահք (hy) (pahkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: oruc (az)
• Basque: barau
• Belarusian: пост m (post), галада́нне n (haladánnje)
• Bengali: উপবাস (upobaś)
• Breton: yun (br) m
• Bulgarian: пост (bg) m (post)
• Catalan: dejuni (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禁食 (zh) (jìnshí), 齋戒／斋戒 (zh) (zhāijiè), 斋戒 (zh) (zhāijiè)

• Czech: půst (cs) m
• Dalmatian: dezun
• Danish: faste (da) c
• Dutch: vasten (nl) n
• Estonian: paast
• Faroese: føsta f
• Finnish: paasto (fi), paastoaminen (fi)
• French: jeûne (fr) m
• Friulian: dizun m, diğun m
• Galician: xaxún, xexún (gl)
• Georgian: მარხვა (marxva)
• German: Fasten (de) n
• Greek: νηστεία (el) f (nisteía)

  Ancient: νηστεία f (nēsteía)

• Hebrew: צוֹם (he) m (tsom), תַּעֲנִית (he) f (ta'anít)
• Hindi: उपवास (hi) (upvās)
• Hungarian: böjtölés
• Icelandic: fasta (is) f
• Italian: digiuno (it) m
• Japanese: 断食 (だんじき, danjiki), 絶食 (ぜっしょく, zesshoku)
• Kabuverdianu: djudjum
• Kalmyk: мацг (matsg)
• Kazakh: ораза (kk) (oraza)
• Korean: 단식 (dansik) (斷食 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: rojî (ku) f

  Sorani:

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• Kyrgyz: орозо (ky) (orozo)
• Latin: iēiūnium (la) n
• Latvian: gavēnis m
• Lithuanian: pasninkas m
• Macedonian: пост m (post)
• Malagasy: fifadin-kanina
• Malay: puasa
• Marathi: उपवास m (upvās)
• Middle Persian: lwck' (rōzag), rwck (rōzag) (Manichaean)
• Norwegian: faste (no) m
• Old Portuguese: astẽença, jajũu
• Persian: روزه (fa) (ruze)
• Polish: post (pl) m
• Portuguese: jejum (pt) m
• Romanian: post (ro) n, ajun (ro) n
• Russian: пост (ru) m (post), голода́ние (ru) n (golodánije)
• Sanskrit: उपवास (sa) m (upavāsa)
• Sardinian: dejunu, deunu, deunzu, diunzu, diugnu, geunu, giaunu, giunu, zeunu, giaugnu, zaunzu
• Scottish Gaelic: trasg f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пост m

  Roman: post (sh) m

• Sicilian: dijunu (scn), dajunu (scn)
• Slovak: pôst m
• Slovene: post (sl) m
• Spanish: ayuno (es) m
• Swahili: funga (sw)
• Swedish: fasta (sv) c
• Tajik: рӯза (rüza‍)
• Tamil: உண்ணாவிரதம் (ta) (uṇṇāviratam)
• Tatar: ураза (tt) (uraza)
• Telugu: ఉపవాసము (te) (upavāsamu), పస్తు (pastu)
• Thai: การอดอาหาร (gaan òt aahăan)
• Turkish: oruç (tr)
• Udi: цӏум (c̣um)
• Ukrainian: піст m (pist), голодува́ння n (holoduvánnja)
• Uzbek: roʻza
• Venetian: zun, dizun, dezun
• Vietnamese: nhịn ăn, kiêng ăn
• Walloon: djune (wa) f

period of time when one abstains from or eats very little food

• Albanian:

  Gheg: ninimi, njinimi

  Tosk: agjërimi (sq)

• Arabic: صَوْم m (ṣawm), صِيَام m (ṣiyām)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: צומא

  Syriac: ܨܰܘܡܳܐ

• Armenian: պաս (hy) (pas), ծոմ (hy) (com), պահք (hy) (pahkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: oruc (az)
• Basque: baraualdi
• Belarusian: пост m (post), галада́нне n (haladánnje)
• Breton: yun (br) m
• Bulgarian: пост (bg) m (post)
• Catalan: dia dejunat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禁食 (zh) (jìnshí), 齋戒／斋戒 (zh) (zhāijiè), 斋戒 (zh) (zhāijiè)

• Czech: půst (cs) m
• Danish: faste (da) c
• Dutch: vasten (nl) m
• Esperanto: fasto
• Estonian: paast
• Faroese: føsta f
• Finnish: paasto (fi)
• French: jeûne (fr) m
• Galician: xaxún m
• Georgian: მარხვა (marxva)
• German: Fastenzeit (de) f
• Greek: νηστεία (el) f (nisteía)

  Ancient: νηστεία f (nēsteía)

• Hebrew: צוֹם (he) m (tsom), תַּעֲנִית (he) f (ta'anít)
• Hindi: उपवास (hi) (upvās)
• Hungarian: böjt (hu)
• Icelandic: fasta (is) f
• Indonesian: puasa (id)
• Irish: troscadh m
• Italian: digiuno (it) m
• Japanese: 断食 (だんじき, danjiki), 絶食 (ぜっしょく, zesshoku)
• Kabuverdianu: djudjum
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• Kalmyk: мацг (matsg)
• Kazakh: ашығу (aşyğu)
• Korean: 단식 (dansik) (斷食 (ko))
• Kurdish: ,
• Latin: iēiūnium (la) n
• Latvian: gavēnis m
• Lithuanian: pasninkas m, gavėnia f
• Macedonian: пост m (post)
• Malagasy: fifadinkanina
• Malay: puasa
• Mongolian: харуу (mn) (xaruu)
• Norwegian: faste (no) m
• Persian: روزه (fa) (ruze)
• Polish: post (pl) m
• Portuguese: jejum (pt) m
• Romanian: post (ro)
• Russian: пост (ru) m (post), голода́ние (ru) n (golodánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: trasg f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пост m

  Roman: post (sh) m

• Slovak: pôst m
• Slovene: post (sl) m
• Spanish: ayuno (es) m
• Swahili: funga (sw), saumu (sw)
• Swedish: fastetid (sv) c
• Tagalog: ayuno
• Tajik: рӯза (rüza‍)
• Thai: การอด (th) (kaan òt)
• Tibetan: ཟས་གཅོད (zas gcod)
• Turkish: oruç (tr)
• Udi: цӏум (c̣um)
• Ukrainian: піст m (pist), голодува́ння n (holoduvánnja)
• Vietnamese: nhịn ăn, kiêng ăn
• Walloon: djune (wa) f
• Welsh: ympryd m
• Yiddish: תּענית m (tones)

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} fasto
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