English
A ritual libation
Etymology
From Latin lībātiō lībāre ( “ to take a little from anything, to taste, to pour out as an offering ” )
Pronunciation
Noun
libation (countable and uncountable plural libations
The act of pouring a liquid , most often wine , in sacrifice on the ground, on a ritual object, or on a victim , in honor of some deity .
Synonyms: tip tipping
The wine or liquid thus poured out.
( often humorous ) beverage , especially an alcoholic one.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage 1997 David Foster Wallace , “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again , Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:[ …] watching you, the waiters, not quite making eye-contact but scanning for any little way to be of service, plus plum-jacketed sommeliers walking around to see if you need a non-buffet libation …
Translations
act of pouring a liquid as a sacrifice
Afrikaans: drankoffer
Albanian: pije alkoolike
Belarusian: паліва́ньне n ( palivánʹnje )
Bengali: তর্পণ ( torpon )
Catalan: libació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 奠 (zh) ( diàn ) , 奠酒 (zh) ( diànjiǔ ) , 獻酒 ／ 献酒 ( xiànjiǔ ) , 献酒 ( xiànjiǔ ) , 奠祭 (zh) ( diànjì )
Czech: úlitba (cs) f
Danish: drikoffer
Dutch: plengoffer n
Estonian: jook ohver
Finnish: juomauhri
French: libation (fr) f
German: Trankopfer (de) n Libation (de) f
Greek: σπονδή (el) f ( spondí )
Ancient: σπονδή f ( spondḗ )
Gujarati: મદ્ય ( madya )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Hebrew: נסך
Hindi: मदिरा (hi) ( madirā )
Hungarian: italáldozat boráldozat
Italian: libagione (it) f libamento m ( rare )
Japanese: 献酒 ( けんしゅ, kenshu ) , 神酒 ( みき, miki, しんしゅ, shinshu )
Kannada: ಮದ್ಯಪಾನ (kn) ( madyapāna )
Korean: 신주 (ko) ( sinju ) (神酒 헌주 ( heonju ) (獻酒
Latin: libatio f
Latvian: iedzeršana
Norwegian: drikkofferet
Persian: نثار (fa) ( nesār ) , زور (fa) ( zowr ) , زوهر ( zuhr )
Portuguese: libação (pt) f
Russian: возлия́ние (ru) n ( vozlijánije ) , либа́ция f ( libácija )
Scottish Gaelic: deoch-ìobairt f
Spanish: libación (es) f
Swedish: dryckesoffer
Thai: การ ดื่ม สุรา ( gaan dèum sùraa )
Vietnamese: sự rảy ra
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