English Explanatory Dictionary

Laba Festival

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. 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.

Word forms

Laba Festival the Laba Festival Laba

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.

Related words

Laba congee Laba porridge Bodhi Day Rohatsu Vesak
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