# evening
## English
### Alternative forms

* ev'ning (obsolete)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English evening, evenyng, from Old English ǣfnung, from ǣfnian < ǣfen (from Proto-West Germanic *ābanþ, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs), corresponding to even +‎ -ing.

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: ēv'nĭng, IPA: /ˈiːvnɪŋ/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈivnɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Noun

evening (countable and uncountable, plural evenings)
* The time of day between afternoon and night.
    Toward evening, there was heavy rain.
    I met my wife on a summer's evening in 1999.
** 2013 July–August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
* The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
** 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
* (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
    It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
** 1950 January, “Notes and News: The North Cornwall Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:The latter [locomotive] had worked on the Hampton Court branch for many years, and was spending the evening of its life in the West Country.
* A party or gathering held in the evening.
** 1980, Management Services, page 50:A few Gorllewin Cymru/West Wales Branch members attended an evening at the Dragon Hotel, Swansea, titled Photographic Techniques in Industry.

##### Synonyms

* (time of day): eve, eventide; see also Thesaurus:evening

##### Coordinate terms

* dawn
* morning
* noon, midday
* afternoon
* dusk
* evening
* night
* midnight

##### Derived terms

* bigfruit evening primrose
* evening bat
* evening cicada
* evening class
* evening dress
* evening-dressed
* eveninger
* eveningful
* evening glove
* evening gown
* evening-gowned
* evening grosbeak
* evening gun
* eveningless
* eveninglike
* eveningness
* evening newspaper
* evening out
* evening prayer
* evening primrose
* evening primrose oil
* evening school
* evening-snow
* evening star
* evening tea
* eveningtide
* evening trumpet flower
* evening walk
* eveningwear
* evening wrap
* family home evening
* good evening
* lady of the evening
* midevening
* Missouri evening primrose
* open evening
* parents' evening
* this evening
* yesterevening

##### Related terms

* eve
* even

##### Translations

Aklanon: gabii
Amharic: ማታ (mata)
Apache:
Western Apache: ǫ́ʼáá
Arabic: مساء (masāʔ)
Belarusian: уве́чар m (uvjéčar), ўве́чар m (ŭvjéčar), ве́чар m (vjéčar)
Bengali: সন্ধ্যা (bn) (śonddha)
Bulgarian: ве́чер (bg) f or m (véčer)
Bikol Central: banggi (bcl)
Buryat: үдэшэ (üdeše)
Catalan: vespre (ca) m, capvespre (ca) m, vesprada (ca) f
Cebuano: gabii
Chechen: суьйре (süüre)
Cherokee: ᏒᎯᏰᏱ (svhiyeyi)
Chuvash: каҫ (kaś)
Coptic: ⲣⲟⲩϩⲉ (rouhe)
Cornish: gorthugher m
Czech: večer (cs) m
Danish: aften (da) c
Dutch: avond (nl) m
Egyptian: (mšrw m)
Esperanto: vespero (eo)
Finnish: ilta (fi)
French: crépuscule (fr) m, soir (fr) m
Galician: fresca f, crepúsculo (gl) m, noitiña f, serán (gl) m
Ge'ez: ምሴት (məset)
German: Abend (de) m
Gilbertese: tairiki
Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌹 n (andanahti)
Greek: βράδυ (el) n (vrády)
Ancient: ἑσπέρα f (hespéra)
Haitian Creole: swa
Hawaiian: ahiahi
Hebrew: ערב (he) m (érev)
Hiligaynon: gab-i
Hindi: साँझ (hi) f (sāñjh), संध्या f (sandhyā), सायंकाल (hi) m (sāyaṅkāl), शाम (hi) f (śām)
Hungarian: este (hu)
Icelandic: kvöld (is) n
Ilocano: rabii
Indonesian: petang (id), sore (id)
Ingrian: ilta, ehtoo (obsolete)
Ingush: сайре (sajre)
Italian: sera (it) f
Kapampangan: bengi
Kazakh: кеш (keş), кешкілік (keşkılık)
Komi-Zyrian: рыт (ryt)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: êvar (ku)
Kyrgyz: кеч (ky) (kec)
Latin: vesper (la) m, vespera f
Macedonian: вечер m (večer)
Malagasy: hariva (mg)
Malay: petang (ms)
Malayalam: വൈകുന്നേരം (ml) (vaikunnēraṁ), സായാഹ്നം (ml) (sāyāhnaṁ), സായങ്കാലം (ml) (sāyaṅkālaṁ)
Marathi: संध्याकाळ (mr) f (saṅdhyākāḷ), सायंकाळ f (sāyaṅkāḷ)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: кас (kas)
Western Mari: вады (vady)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үдэш (mn) (üdeš), орой (mn) (oroj)
Mongolian: ᠦᠳᠡᠰᠢ (üdesi), ᠣᠷᠤᠢ (orui)
Nivkh: парф (parf)
Northern Altai: иир (iir), ээр (eer)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kveld (no) m, aften (no) m
Occitan: vèspre (oc) m
Old English: ǣfen m, ǣfnung f
Persian:
Iranian Persian: شام (fa) (šâm)
Piedmontese: seira f
Plautdietsch: Owent m
Polish: wieczór (pl) m
Portuguese: noitinha f, crepúsculo vespertino m, anoitecer (pt) m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਤਰਕਾਲਾਂ (pa) (tarkālā̃), ਸੰਝ (pa) (sañjh), ਆਥਣ (pa) (āthaṇ), ਸ਼ਾਮ (pa) (śām)
Russian: ве́чер (ru) m (véčer)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ве̏че̄ n, ве̏че̄р f
Roman: vȅčē (sh) n, vȅčēr (sh) f
Slovak: večer m
Southern Altai: эҥир (eŋir), кеч (keč)
Spanish: crepúsculo (es) m, véspero (es) m
Swedish: afton (sv) c
Tagalog: gabi (tl)
Tajik: шом (tg) (šom)
Tarifit: tameddit f
Thai: เย็น (th) (yen), ค่ำ (th) (kâm)
Tibetan: དགོང་མོ (dgong mo), དགོང་དྲོ (dgong dro), དགོང་དག (dgong dag)
Turkish: akşam (tr)
Udmurt: ӝыт (džyt)
Ukrainian: ве́чір (uk) m (véčir)
Urdu: شام f (śām)
Uzbek: kechqurun (uz), oqshom (uz), kech (uz)
Venetan: séra
Vietnamese: chiều tối
West Frisian: jûn
Zazaki: şon :

### Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: ē'vənĭng, IPA: /ˈiːvənɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Verb

evening
* present participle and gerund of even

### Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

#### Verb

evening
* present participle and gerund of evene

### Anagrams

* eevning

## Dutch
### Etymology

From evenen +‎ -ing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈeː.və.nɪŋ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: eve‧ning

### Noun

evening f (plural eveningen)
* (obsolete) levelling, equalisation, act or process of making or becoming even or equal
* (obsolete) equinox
    Synonyms: dag-en-nachtevening, equinox, nachtevening

#### Derived terms

* dag-en-nachtevening
* nachtevening