resurrection

See also: Resurrection, résurrection, and rêsurrection

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  resurrectiun, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French resurrection (French: résurrection), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  resurrectionem (accusative of resurrectiō) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin resurgō (“I rise again”), from re- (“again”), + surgō (“I rise”).

Pronunciation

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

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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. (archaic) bodysnatching

Synonyms

• (rising from the dead): gainrising (obsolete)

Derived terms

• resurrectional
• resurrectionism
• resurrectionist
• resurrection man

Related terms

• resurge
• resurrect

Translations

the act of arising from the dead

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

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

  Hakka: 復活／复活, 复活 (fu̍k-fa̍t)

  Mandarin: 復活／复活 (zh) (fùhuó), 复活 (zh) (fùhuó)

  Min Nan: 閣活／阁活, 阁活 (koh-oa̍h)

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

  Ancient: ἀνάστασις f (anástasis)

• Hebrew: תחיית המתים (he)
• Hindi: पुनरुज्जीवन m (punrujjīvan)
• Hungarian: feltámadás (hu)
• Icelandic: upprisa f
• Interlingue:
• Irish: aiséirí m

  Old Irish: esséirge n

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

  German Low German: Uperstahung f

• Macedonian: воскресение n (voskresenie)
• Ngazidja Comorian: mbâthwi
• Norman: rêsurrection f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: въскрьсениѥ n (vŭskrĭsenije), въскрѣшениѥ n (vŭskrěšenije)

• 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)
• Rusyn: воскресї́ня n (voskresjínja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: васкрсење n, ускрснуће n

  Roman: vaskrsenje n, uskrsnuće (sh) n

• Slovak: vzkriesenie n
• Slovene: vstajenje (sl) n (od mrtvih)
• Spanish: resurrección (es) f
• Swahili: ufufuo
• Tagalog: muling-pagkabuhay
• Turkish: diriliş (tr)
• Ukrainian: воскреше́ння n (voskrešénnja)
• Walloon: ravicaedje (wa) m, rezureccion (wa) f
• Welsh: atgyfodiad m

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