Holy Week

English

Proper noun

Holy Week

1. The week preceding Easter containing Palm Sunday, Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), Holy Friday (Good Friday), and Holy Saturday.

Hypernyms

• Eastertide

Coordinate terms

• Easter Week (the week following on from Easter Sunday)

Translations

week preceding Easter

• Armenian: Ավագ շաբաթ (Avag šabatʻ)
• Catalan: Setmana Santa (ca) f
• Cebuano: Semana Santa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖週 / 圣周 (Shèngzhōu)

• Dutch: Goede Week (nl) f or m
• Finnish: hiljainen viikko (fi)
• French: semaine sainte (fr) f
• Georgian: ვნების კვირა (ka) (vnebis ḳvira)
• German: Karwoche (de) f, Heilige Woche f, Stille Woche f, Osterwoche (de) f (ambiguous)
• Greek: Μεγάλη Εβδομάδα (el) f (Megáli Evdomáda)
• Hungarian: nagyhét (hu)
• Icelandic: páskavika f, dymbilvika f, kyrravika f, dymbildagavika f
• Indonesian: pekan suci
• Ingrian: Strastnoi Viikko
• Irish: An tSeachtain Mhór f, Seachtain na Páise f
• Italian: Settimana Santa f
• Kapampangan: Maleldo (colloquially), Mal a Yaldo (formally)
• Maltese: Ġimgħa Mqaddsa f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: den stille uke f or m

• Polish: Wielki Tydzień (pl) m
• Portuguese: Semana Santa (pt) f
• Russian: страстна́я неде́ля f (strastnája nedélja)
• Scottish Gaelic: Seachdain a' Cheusaidh f
• Spanish: Semana Santa (es) f, Semana de Turismo (officially in Uruguay)
• Swahili: Juma Kuu
• Swedish: stilla veckan (sv) c, passionsveckan (sv) c, dymmelveckan (sv) c
• Tagalog: Semana Santa, Mahal na Araw
• Turkish: Çile Haftası, Kutsal Hafta
• Vietnamese: Tuần Thánh

Further reading

• Holy Week on Wikipedia.Wikipedia