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English
Noun
May Day (plural May Days)
- The first day of May, a festival celebrating the beginning of the spring season; originally, and still among neopagans, a fertility celebration.
- Labour Day, the first day of May, a worldwide workers' holiday.
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workers' holiday
- Armenian: Աշխատանքի օր (Ašxatankʻi ōr), (USSR) Աշխատավորների համերաշխության միջազգային օր (Ašxatavorneri hamerašxutʻyan miǰazgayin ōr)
- Burmese: အလုပ်သမားနေ့ (my) (a.lupsa.ma:ne.)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 勞動節／劳动节 (zh) (láodòngjié)
- Danish: første maj c, 1. maj, arbejdernes internationale kampdag c (formal, very rare)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: volbripäev, töörahvapüha
- Finnish: vappu (fi)
- French: fête du Travail; fête des Travailleurs
- Galician: Día do Traballo m
- German: Tag der Arbeit (de) m, Erster Mai (de) m, Maifeiertag (de) m, (dated) Kampftag der Arbeiterklasse m, Kampftag der Arbeiterbewegung m
- Greek: Εργατική Πρωτομαγιά (el) f (Ergatikí Protomagiá), Πρωτομαγιά (el) f (Protomagiá)
- Hebrew: אחד במאי (he)
- Hungarian: munka ünnepe
- Icelandic: fyrsti maí
- Italian: Primo Maggio m, festa dei lavoratori f
- Karelian: pervomaiju
- Macedonian: Ден на трудот m (Den na trudot), Меѓународен ден на трудот m (Meǵunaroden den na trudot), Први мај m (Prvi maj)
- Malay: Hari Buruh
- Northern Sami: válbor
- Norwegian: første mai
- Polish: Święto Pracy (pl) n
- Portuguese: Dia do Trabalhador m, Primeiro de Maio (pt) m
- Russian: Пра́здник весны́ и труда́ m (Prázdnik vesný i trudá) (Russia), День труда́ m (Denʹ trudá), День междунаро́дной солида́рности трудя́щихся m (Denʹ meždunaródnoj solidárnosti trudjáščixsja) (USSR), Первома́й (ru) m (Pervomáj)
- Scottish Gaelic: Bealltainn f
- Swahili: leba dei, Siku ya Wafanyakazi
- Swedish: första maj, valborg (sv) c, vappen (sv) (Finland)
- Tagalog: Araw ng mga Manggagawa
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