pilgrimage

English

Etymology

From Middle English pilgrimage.

Noun

pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)

1. A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.

   In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.

2. (by extension) A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.

   Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.

Related terms

• pilgrim

Translations

religious journey, or one to a sacred place

• Arabic: حَجّ (ar) m (ḥajj)
• Armenian: ուխտագնացություն (hy) (uxtagnacʻutʻyun)
• Asturian: pelegrinaxe m, pelegrinación f
• Catalan: pelegrinatge m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朝覲／朝觐 (zh) (cháojìn), 朝觐 (zh) (cháojìn), 朝聖／朝圣 (zh) (cháoshèng), 朝圣 (zh) (cháoshèng), 巡禮／巡礼 (zh) (xúnlǐ), 巡礼 (zh) (xúnlǐ)

• Czech: pouť (cs) f
• Dutch: bedevaart (nl) c, pelgrimstocht (nl) m
• Esperanto: pilgrimo, pilgrimado
• Finnish: pyhiinvaellus (fi), pyhiinvaellusmatka, toiviomatka
• French: pèlerinage (fr)
• Galician: peregrinación (gl) f, romaría f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Wallfahrt (de)
• Greek: προσκύνημα (el) n (proskýnima)
• Hebrew: עליה לרגל (he) (ali'a la-regel)
• Hungarian: zarándoklat (hu)
• Irish: oilithreacht f, turas (ga) m
• Italian: pellegrinaggio (it) m
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• Japanese: 巡礼 (ja) (じゅんれい, junrei)
• Latin: peregrīnātiō f
• Luxembourgish: Pilgerfaart f
• Macedonian: поклонение n (poklonenie), аџилак m (adžilak)
• Norman: pélérinnage m
• Norwegian: valfart m

  Bokmål: pilegrimsreise m or f, pilegrimsferd m or f

  Nynorsk: pilegrimsferd f

• Occitan: pelegrinatge (oc) m, pelegrinacion f
• Polish: pielgrzymka (pl) f
• Portuguese: peregrinação (pt) f, peregrinagem f, romaria (pt) f
• Russian: пало́мничество (ru) n (palómničestvo), пилигри́мство (ru) n (piligrímstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: eilthireachd f
• Serbo-Croatian: hodočašće (sh) n, hodočast f
• Slovak: púť f
• Spanish: peregrinación (es) f, peregrinaje m
• Swedish: pilgrimsfärd (sv) c, vallfärd (sv) c
• Turkish: hac (tr)
• Walloon: perlinaedje (wa) m
• Welsh: pererindod

Verb

1. To go on a pilgrimage.

Related terms

• peregrinate

Translations

to go on a pilgrimage

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朝覲／朝觐 (zh) (cháojìn), 朝觐 (zh) (cháojìn), 朝聖／朝圣 (zh) (cháoshèng), 朝圣 (zh) (cháoshèng), 巡禮／巡礼 (zh) (xúnlǐ), 巡礼 (zh) (xúnlǐ)

• Finnish: pyhiinvaeltaa, tehdä pyhiinvaellus
• French: pèleriner (fr)
• German: pilgern (de)
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• Italian: pellegrinare
• Portuguese: peregrinar (pt)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: peregrinar (es)
• Swedish: vallfärda (sv)

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• pilgermage, piligrimage, pilgrinage, pilgrenage, pilgramege, pilgrimache, pilrimage, pelrimage

Etymology

From Old French peligrinage, pelrimage, variants of pelerinage (“pilgrimage”).

Noun

pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)

1. pilgrimage
   • late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 12-14.

     Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages

     And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes

     To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

     Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,

     And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,

     To distant shrines well known in distant lands.

Descendants

• English: pilgrimage
• Scots: pilgrimag, pilgrimage, pilgramage