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A calendar page from 1712 with name days
name day (plural name days )
The feast day of the saint after whom one is named.
2014 , Ada Gobetti, Partisan Diary: A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance , Oxford University Press, →ISBN :In Italy, many individuals celebrate not only their birthday but also their name day , the feast day of the saint for whom they were named. Celebrations on one's name day are often as important as those on one's birthday; [ …]
( finance ) Synonym of ticket day
feast day of a saint
Arabic: يَوْم اِسْم m ( yawm ism )
Azerbaijani: ad günü
Belarusian: імяні́ны f pl ( imjaníny )
Bulgarian: и́мен ден m ( ímen den )
Carpathian Rusyn: мени́ны f pl ( menýnŷ )
Catalan: dia onomàstic m , festa onomàstica f , onomàstica (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 命名日 (zh) ( mìngmíngrì )
Chuvash: менелник ( menelnik )
Czech: svátek (cs) m , jmeniny (cs) f pl
Danish: navnedag c
Dutch: naamdag (nl) m or f
Esperanto: nomtago
Estonian: nimepäev
Faroese: navnadagur m
Finnish: nimipäivä (fi)
French: fête (fr) f , fête du prénom f
German: Namenstag (de) m
Greek: ονομαστική γιορτή f ( onomastikí giortí )
Hungarian: névnap (hu)
Ingrian: nimipäivä
Italian: onomastico (it) m
Japanese: 聖名祝日 ( せいめいしゅくじつ, seimei shukujitsu )
Kashubian: mionowi dzéń
Korean: 영명 축일(靈名祝日) ( yeongmyeong chugil )
Latvian: vārda diena f
Limburgish: Namesdaag
Lithuanian: vardadienis m
Macedonian: и́менден (mk) m ( ímenden )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: navnedag (no) m
Nynorsk: namnedag m
Polish: imieniny (pl) nvir
Portuguese: dia onomástico m
Romanian: onomastică (ro) f , ziua numelui (ro) f , zi onomastică (ro) f
Russian: имени́ны (ru) f pl ( imeníny )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: и̏менда̄н m
Roman: ȉmendān (sh) m
Sicilian: jornu dû santu m , anumàsticu m
Slovak: meniny f pl
Slovene: god (sl) m
Spanish: día del santo m , onomástica (es) f , santo (es) m
Swedish: namnsdag (sv) c
Turkish: isim günü (tr)
Ukrainian: імени́ни (uk) f pl ( imenýny )
Uzbek: ism kuni , ism toʻyi
Vilamovian: nomastaog