# festival
## English
### Alternative forms

* feastiuall (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɛstɪvl̩/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Hyphenation: fes‧tiv‧al

### Adjective

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)
* Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:the temple of the Gods […] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort […]

### Noun

festival (countable and uncountable, plural festivals)
* (biblical) A feast or feast day.
** 2009, “Deuteronomy 16:16”, in Holman Christian Standard Bible:All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.
* An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
    The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.
    A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.
* In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
* (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.

#### Derived terms

* Car Festival
* Chung Yueng Festival
* Da Jiu Festival
* Double Fifth Festival
* Double Ninth Festival
* Double Seventh Festival
* Dragon Boat Festival
* Dumpling Festival
* festie
* festivalgoer
* festivalist
* festivalization
* festivalize
* festivally
* Festival of Light
* Festival of Lights
* Festival of the Rosary
* Festival of Weeks
* festival seating
* festivalwear
* festy
* Ghost Festival
* harvest festival
* Harvest Festival
* Kaul festival
* Laba Festival
* Lantern Festival
* macrofestival
* Magpie Festival
* megafestival
* Mid-Autumn Festival
* minifestival
* nonfestival
* prefestival
* pride festival
* pseudofestival
* Pure Brightness Festival
* Qingming Festival
* Renaissance festival
* rocket festival
* snow festival
* Spring Festival
* Sweet Festival
* teknival
* Tomb Sweeping Festival
* Tuen Ng Festival
* winter festival
* Winterval
* Zhongqiu Festival

#### Related terms

* festal
* festive
* festivity
* festivities

#### Translations

Afrikaans: fees (af)
Albanian: festival (sq) m, festë (sq) f
Arabic: عِيد (ar) m (ʕīd), مَهْرَجَان m (mahrajān)
Armenian: տոն (hy) (ton), փառատոն (hy) (pʻaṙaton)
Azerbaijani: festival (az), bayram (az)
Bashkir: байрам (bayram)
Basque: jai
Belarusian: фестыва́ль m (fjestyválʹ), свя́та n (svjáta)
Bengali: উৎসব (bn) (utśob)
Bulgarian: пра́зненство (bg) n (práznenstvo), фестива́л (bg) m (festivál), пра́зник (bg) m (práznik)
Burmese: ပွဲတော် (my) (pwai:tau), ပွဲ (my) (pwai:)
Catalan: festival (ca) m
Chamicuro: meesa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 節慶 / 节庆 (zh) (jiéqìng), 節日 / 节日 (zh) (jiérì), 節 / 节 (zh) (jié), 會演 / 会演 (zh) (huìyǎn), 匯演 / 汇演 (zh) (huìyǎn)
Czech: festival (cs), svátek (cs) m
Danish: festival c
Dutch: festival (nl) n, feest (nl) n
Egyptian: (ḥꜣb)
Esperanto: festivalo
Estonian: pidustused pl, festival (et)
Faroese: hátíð f
Finnish: juhlat (fi) pl, festivaali (fi)
French: festival (fr) m, fête (fr) f
Galician: festival m, festa (gl) f
Georgian: ფესტივალი (pesṭivali), ფესტი (pesṭi), დღესასწაული (dɣesasc̣auli)
German: Festival (de) n, Fest (de) n
Alemannic German: Fäscht n
Greek: φεστιβάλ (el) (festivál)
Ancient: πανήγυρις f (panḗguris)
Gujarati: ઓચ્છવ (gu) m (occhav), મહોચ્છવ m (mahocchav), તહેવાર m (tahevār)
Hebrew: פֶסטִיבָל (he) m (festivál), חַג (he) m (khag)
Hindi: त्योहार (hi) m (tyohār), जश्न (hi) m (jaśn), उत्सव (hi) m (utsav), पर्व (hi) m (parv), मेला (hi) m (melā), ईद (hi) f (īd) (Muslim)
Hungarian: fesztivál (hu), ünnepség (hu)
Icelandic: hátíð (is) f
Ido: festivalo (io)
Indonesian: festival (id), pesta (id), perayaan (id)
Ingrian: guljanja
Irish: fleá f
Italian: festival (it) m, mostra (it) f, rassegna (it) f, sagra (it) f, festivale m (rare)
Japanese: 祭り (ja) (まつり, matsuri), 祭典 (ja) (さいてん, saiten), 祝祭 (ja) (しゅくさい, shukusai)
Jingpho: poi
Kannada: ಹಬ್ಬ (kn) (habba)
Kazakh: мейрам (meiram), мереке (mereke), фестиваль (festival)
Khiamniungan Naga: sǖmaī
Khmer: បុណ្យ (km) (bon), មហោស្រព (km) (mĕəʼhaosrɑp), ពិធីបុណ្យ (pithii bon)
Korean: 축제(祝祭) (ko) (chukje), 축일(祝日) (ko) (chugil)
Kyrgyz: майрам (ky) (mayram), фестиваль (ky) (festival)
Lao: ງັນ (ngan), ງານ (ngān), ມະຫະກຳ (ma ha kam), ງານບຸນ (ngān bun), ກອງບຸນ (kǭng bun), ມື້ພັກ (lo) (mư̄ phak), ເທດສະການ (thēt sa kān)
Latin: feria f, festum n, festivitas f
Latvian: festivāls m, svētki m pl
Lithuanian: festivalis m, šventė (lt) f
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: фестива́л m (festivál), празник (mk) m (praznik)
Malay: perayaan (ms), festival (ms)
Malayalam: ഉത്സവം (ml) (utsavaṁ), മേള (ml) (mēḷa), പെരുന്നാൾ (ml) (perunnāḷ)
Manx: ard-laa m
Maori: taiopenga, hui taurima
Mòcheno: fest n
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: баяр ёслол (bajar joslol)
Nepali: पर्व (parva), चाड (ne) (cāḍ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: festival m
Nynorsk: festival m
Old English: frēols m
Pali: mahussava
Pashto: عيد (ps) m ('id), جشن (ps) m (ǰašᶕn), فستيوال m (festiwāl)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: جَشْنْوارِه (jašnvâre), فِسْتیوال (festivâl), عِیْد (eyd), جَشْن (jašn)
Polish: festiwal (pl) m, święto (pl) n
Portuguese: festival (pt) m
Quechua: raymi (qu)
Romanian: festival (ro) n
Russian: фестива́ль (ru) m (festiválʹ), пра́здник (ru) m (prázdnik), пра́зднество (ru) n (prázdnestvo)
Sanskrit: उत्सव (sa) m (utsava), महोत्सव (sa) m (mahotsava)
Scottish Gaelic: féill f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фестѝва̄л m, пра̑знӣк m
Roman: festìvāl (sh) m, prȃznīk (sh) m
Shan: ပွႆး (shn) (páui)
Sholaga: ಹಬ್ಬ (habba)
Sinhalese: උත්සවය (si) (utsawaya), සැණකෙලිය (si) (sæṇakeliya)
Slovak: festival (sk) m, sviatok m
Slovene: festival (sl) m, praznik (sl) m
Spanish: festival (es) m
Swahili: tamasha (sw)
Swedish: festival (sv) c
Tajik: ид (tg) (id), фестивал (festival), ҷашн (tg) (jašn), ҷашнвора (jašnvora)
Tatar: бәйрәм (tt) (bäyräm)
Telugu: పండుగ (te) (paṇḍuga)
Thai: งานฉลอง (ngaan-chà-lɔ̌ɔng), มหกรรม (th) (má-hà-gam)
Tibetan: དུས་ཆེན (dus chen)
Turkish: festival (tr), şenlik (tr), bayram (tr)
Turkmen: festiwal, baýram (tk)
Ukrainian: фестива́ль m (festyválʹ), свя́то n (svjáto)
Urdu: تِہْوار m (tihvār), عِید f ('īd), جَشْن m (jaśn), میلَہ m (mela)
Uyghur: بايرام (bayram), فېستىۋال (fëstiwal)
Uzbek: festival (uz), bayram (uz)
Vietnamese: ngày hội, đại hội liên hoan, hội diễn (vi), lễ hội (vi)
Welsh: gŵyl (cy) m or f
White Hmong: rooj noj mov
Yakut: бырааһынньык (bıraahınnyık)
Yiddish: יאָמטעוו (yomtev), פֿעסטיוואַל m (festival)
Yucatec Maya: chaʼan
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can :

#### See also

* heortology (study of festivals), festilogy (treatise on festivals)

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French festival, from Latin fēstīvālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [fəs.tiˈβal]
* IPA: (Balearic) [fəs.tiˈval]
* IPA: (Valencia) [fes.tiˈval]

### Noun

festival m (plural festivals)
* festival

#### Derived terms

* festival de cinema (“film festival”)

#### Related terms

* festa

### Further reading

* “festival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Czech
### Etymology

Derived from English festival.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɛstɪval]
* Hyphenation: fe‧s‧ti‧val

### Noun

festival m inan
* festival (an event or community gathering)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “festival”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “festival”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “festival”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English festival, from Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛs.tiˌvɑl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

### Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)
* a festival (festive event or gathering)

#### Derived terms

* dorpsfestival
* festivalganger
* festivalisering
* festivalpubliek
* filmfestival
* kunstfestival
* muziekfestival
* songfestival
* theaterfestival

## Estonian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfestivɑl/, [ˈfestʲivɑl]

### Noun

festival (genitive festivali, partitive festivali)
* festival

#### Derived terms

* filmifestival

### Further reading

* “festival”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
* “festival”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “festival”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* festival in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## French
### Etymology

English festival, from Old French festival.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛs.ti.val/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

festival m (plural festivals)
* festival

#### Descendants

* → Greek: φεστιβάλ (festivál)
* → Turkish: festival

### Further reading

* “festival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Noun

festival (plural festival-festival)
* festival

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* festivale

### Etymology

Borrowed from English festival.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛ.sti.val/, (traditional) /fe.stiˈval/
* Rhymes: -ɛstival, (traditional) -al
* Hyphenation: fè‧sti‧val, (traditional) fe‧sti‧vàl

### Noun

festival m (invariable)
* festival
* worker's festival

#### Synonyms

* mostra
* rassegna

#### Related terms

* festivaliere
* festivaliero

### References

* ↑ festival in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival.

### Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)
* a festival

### References

* “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival.

### Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)
* a festival

### References

* “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From French festival, ultimately from Latin fēstīvālis.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /fes.t͡ʃiˈvaw/ [fes.t͡ʃiˈvaʊ̯]
* (Brazil) IPA: /fes.t͡ʃiˈvaw/ [fes.t͡ʃiˈvaʊ̯]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /feʃ.t͡ʃiˈvaw/ [feʃ.t͡ʃiˈvaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /fɨʃ.tiˈval/ [fɨʃ.tiˈvaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /fɨʃ.tiˈval/ [fɨʃ.tiˈvaɫ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /fɨʃ.tiˈbal/ [fɨʃ.tiˈβaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /fɨʃ.tiˈva.li/

### Noun

festival m (plural festivais)
* festival

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

festival n (plural festivaluri)
* festival

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)
* festival

#### Declension
### See also

* praznik

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfestival]

### Noun

festival m inan (declension pattern of dub)
* festival

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “festival”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /festiˈbal/ [fes.t̪iˈβ̞al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: fes‧ti‧val

### Noun

festival m (plural festivales)
* festival

### Further reading

* “festival”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

festival c
* a festival (event)
    gå på festivalgo to a festival

#### Derived terms

* pridefestival

### References

* festival in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* festival in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [festiˈval]
* Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

### Noun

festival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)
* festival
    Synonym: şenlik

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
festival
festivaller
definite accusative
festivali
festivalleri
dative
festivale
festivallere
locative
festivalde
festivallerde
ablative
festivalden
festivallerden
genitive
festivalin
festivallerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
festivalim
festivallerim
2nd singular
festivalin
festivallerin
3rd singular
festivali
festivalleri
1st plural
festivalimiz
festivallerimiz
2nd plural
festivaliniz
festivalleriniz
3rd plural
festivalleri
festivalleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
festivalimi
festivallerimi
2nd singular
festivalini
festivallerini
3rd singular
festivalini
festivallerini
1st plural
festivalimizi
festivallerimizi
2nd plural
festivalinizi
festivallerinizi
3rd plural
festivallerini
festivallerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
festivalime
festivallerime
2nd singular
festivaline
festivallerine
3rd singular
festivaline
festivallerine
1st plural
festivalimize
festivallerimize
2nd plural
festivalinize
festivallerinize
3rd plural
festivallerine
festivallerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
festivalimde
festivallerimde
2nd singular
festivalinde
festivallerinde
3rd singular
festivalinde
festivallerinde
1st plural
festivalimizde
festivallerimizde
2nd plural
festivalinizde
festivallerinizde
3rd plural
festivallerinde
festivallerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
festivalimden
festivallerimden
2nd singular
festivalinden
festivallerinden
3rd singular
festivalinden
festivallerinden
1st plural
festivalimizden
festivallerimizden
2nd plural
festivalinizden
festivallerinizden
3rd plural
festivallerinden
festivallerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
festivalimin
festivallerimin
2nd singular
festivalinin
festivallerinin
3rd singular
festivalinin
festivallerinin
1st plural
festivalimizin
festivallerimizin
2nd plural
festivalinizin
festivallerinizin
3rd plural
festivallerinin
festivallerinin :

### Further reading

* “festival”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “festival”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı