resurrection

See also: Resurrection, résurrection, and rêsurrection

English

Etymology

From Middle English resurreccioun, resurrection, from Anglo-Norman resurrectiun, Old French resurrection (French: résurrection), and their etymon Late Latin resurrēctiōnem (accusative of resurrēctiō) from Latin resurgō (“I rise again”), from re- (“again”), + surgō (“I rise”). By surface analysis, resurrect +‎ -ion. Displaced native Old English ǣrist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/, /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃn̩/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

resurrection (countable and uncountable, plural resurrections)

1. The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
2. (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) The general resurrection.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 20:5–6:

     But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
     Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

3. (figuratively) A miraculous comeback or revival (e.g., of a TV series); recovery from a dire predicament.
4. (archaic) The act of bodysnatching (illicitly exhuming a cadaver).

Synonyms

• (of Jesus): anastasis, Resurrection
• (rising from the dead): gainrising (obsolete)

Derived terms

• nonresurrection
• postresurrection
• resurrectional
• resurrectionary
• resurrectioner
• resurrectionism
• resurrectionist
• resurrectionize
• resurrection lily
• resurrection man
• resurrection pie
• resurrection plant

Related terms

• resurge
• resurgence
• resurrect
• surrection

Translations

act of arising from the dead

• Armenian: հարություն (hy) (harutʻyun)
• Belarusian: уваскрашэ́нне n (uvaskrašénnje)
• Bulgarian: възкресе́ние (bg) n (vǎzkresénie)
• Carpathian Rusyn: воскресї́ня n (voskresjínja)
• Catalan: resurrecció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 復活 / 复活 (fuk⁶ wut⁶, fau⁶ wut⁶)

  Hakka: 復活 / 复活 (fu̍k-fa̍t)

  Hokkien: 閣活 / 阁活 (koh-oa̍h)

  Mandarin: 復活 / 复活 (zh) (fùhuó)

• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: mbâthwi

• Crimean Tatar: tirilüv, tirilme
• Czech: vzkříšení (cs) n
• Dutch: herrijzenis (nl) f, wederopstanding (nl) f, opstanding (nl) f, verrijzenis (nl) f
• Esperanto: reviviĝo, resurekto
• Estonian: ülestõusmine
• Finnish: ylösnousemus (fi)
• French: résurrection (fr) f
• Galician: resurrección (gl) f
• Georgian: გაცოცხლება (gacocxleba), მკვდრეთით აღდგომა (mḳvdretit aɣdgoma)
• German: Wiederauferstehung (de) f, Auferstehung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃 f (usstass)
• Greek: ανάσταση (el) f (anástasi)

  Ancient Greek: ἀνάστασις f (anástasis)

• Hebrew: תחיית המתים \ תְּחִיַּת הַמֵּתִים (he) f (tkhiyát hametím)
• Hindi: पुनरुज्जीवन m (punrujjīvan), मृतोत्थान (mŕtotthān), नुशूर (hi) (nuśūr)
• Hungarian: feltámadás (hu)
• Icelandic: upprisa f
• Irish: aiséirí m

  Old Irish: esséirge n

• Italian: resurrezione (it) f
• Japanese: 復活 (ja) (ふっかつ, fukkatsu)
• Kazakh: ғарасат (ğarasat)
• Korean: 부활(復活) (ko) (buhwal)
• Latin: resurrectiō f
• Latvian: augšāmcelšanās
• Lithuanian: prisikėlimas
• Low German:

  German Low German: Uperstahung f

• Macedonian: воскресение n (voskresenie)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: rêsurrection f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppstandelse m

  Nynorsk: oppstandelse m

• Ojibwe: aabijiibaawin
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: въскрьсеньѥ n (vŭskrĭsenĭje), въскрѣшеньѥ n (vŭskrěšenĭje)

• Old English: ǣrist f
• Persian: رستاخیز (fa) (rastâxiz)
• Polish: zmartwychwstanie (pl) n, wskrzeszenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: ressurreição (pt) f
• Romanian: reînviere (ro) f, înviere (ro) f
• Russian: воскресе́ние (ru) n (voskresénije), воскреше́ние (ru) n (voskrešénije)
• Sanskrit: मृतोत्थान (mṛtotthāna), पुनरुज्जीवन (punarujjīvana)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ускрсење n, ускрсну́ће n

  Latin: uskrsenje n, uskrsnúće n

• Slovak: vzkriesenie n
• Slovene: vstajenje (sl) n (od mrtvih)
• Spanish: resurrección (es) f
• Swahili: ufufuo (sw)
• Swedish: uppståndelse (sv) c
• Tagalog: muling-pagkabuhay
• Tamil: உயிர்த்தெழுதல் (ta) (uyirtteḻutal)
• Turkish: diriliş (tr)
• Ukrainian: воскреше́ння n (voskrešénnja)
• Urdu: نُشُور m (nuśūr), اِحْیا f (iḥya)
• Volapük: dönulifükam
• Walloon: ravicaedje (wa) m, rezureccion (wa) f
• Welsh: atgyfodiad m
• Yiddish: תּחיית המתים (tkhiyes hameysem)

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