laba festival
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A moveable Chinese festival day occurring between December 30th and January 28th on the Gregorian calendar, historically variously associated with propitiatory end-of-year sacrifices, ancestral veneration, and the Enlightenment of the Buddha, now chiefly observed by the consumption of Laba porridge.
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Etymology
A partial calque of the Mandarin form of Chinese 臘八節 /腊八节 (Làbājié), named for its occurrence on the 8th day (八) of the 12th month of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar, sometimes known by the name Là (臘月) from an ancient end-of-year sacrifice.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 臘八節
Inflected Forms
the Laba Festival (canonical)
Laba (alternative)