name day

English

A calendar page from 1712 with name days

Noun

name day (plural name days)

1. 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; […]

Translations

feast day of a saint

• Bulgarian: имен ден (imen den)
• Catalan: dia onomàstic m, festa onomàstica f, onomàstica f
• Chinese: 命名日 (zh) (mìngmíng rì)
• Chuvash: менелник (menelnik)
• Czech: svátek (cs) m, jmeniny 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
• German: Namenstag (de) m
• Greek: ονομαστική γιορτή f (onomastikí giortí)
• Hungarian: névnap (hu)
• Italian: onomastico (it) m
• Japanese: 聖名祝日 (せいめいしゅくじつ, seimei shukujitsu)
• Kashubian: mionowi dzéń
• Latvian: vārda diena f
• Limburgish: Namesdaag
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• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: именден m (imenden)
• Norwegian: navnedag (no)

  Nynorsk: namnedag

• Polish: imieniny (pl) pl
• Portuguese: dia onomástico m
• Romanian: onomastică (ro) f, ziua numelui (ro) f
• Russian: имени́ны (ru) f pl (imeníny)
• Rusyn: мени́ны f pl (menýnŷ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: имендан m

  Roman: imendan (sh) m, imendani (sh) pl

• 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: іменини (uk) (imenyny)
• Vilamovian: nomastaog

See also

• birthday

Further reading

• name day on Wikipedia.Wikipedia