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English
Proper noun
New Year's Eve (plural New Year's Eves)
- The holiday occurring on the last day of the year, celebrated on December 31st in cultures following the Gregorian calendar
- New Year's Day
- watchnight (not identical to New Year's Eve – New Year's Eve is the entire day before New Year's Day, whereas watch night is the night that begins at sundown on New Year's Eve and ends with sunrise on New Year's Day)
Translations
holiday on the last day of the year
- Afrikaans: Oujaarsaand
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (Gregorian calendar) 新年夜 (xīnniányè), (Lunar calendar) 除夕 (zh) (chúxī)
- Danish: nytårsaften (da)
- Dutch: Oudejaarsavond, oudjaar (nl) n
- Egyptian: (ꜥrq-rnpt m)
- Esperanto: Silvestro (eo)
- Estonian: vana-aasta õhtu sg
- Finnish: (day) uudenvuodenaatto (fi), (celebration) uusivuosi (fi)
- French: Saint-Sylvestre (fr) f
- Galician: Noitevella f, Ano Vello m
- Georgian: ახალი წელი (axali c̣eli)
- German: Silvester (de) n; Altjahrsabend (de) m (dated)
- Greek: παραμονή Πρωτοχρονιάς f (paramoní Protochroniás)
- Hungarian: szilveszter (hu)
- Icelandic: gamlárskvöld n
- Irish: Oíche Chaille f
- Italian: vigilia di Capodanno m, capodanno (it)
- Japanese: 大晦日 (ja) (おおみそか, ōmisoka)
- Kazakh: Жаңа жыл қарсаңы (Jaña jyl qarsañy)
- Khmer: ថ្ងៃឡើងស័ក (tŋay laəŋ sak), សម្ពច្ឆរច្ឆិន្ន (sampoaccʰahraccʰən)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: Vecgada vakars m
- Lithuanian: Naujųjų mẽtų ìšvakarės f pl
- Maltese: Lejliet l-Ewwel tas-Sena
- Navajo: náhááh bitłʼééʼ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nyttårsaften (no) m
- Polish: sylwester (pl) m
- Portuguese: véspera de ano novo f, noite de São Silvestre f
- Romanian: revelion (ro) n, Ajunul Anului Nou n, noaptea de Anul Nou f, noaptea de Revelion f, Revelion n
- Russian: кану́н но́вого го́да m (kanún nóvovo góda)
- Scottish Gaelic: Oidhche Challainn f
- Spanish: Nochevieja (es) f (especially Spain), víspera de año nuevo f
- Swedish: nyårsafton (sv) c
- Tagalog: Bisperas ng Bagong Taon
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: yılbaşı gecesi
- Ukrainian: Ще́дрий ве́чір m (Ščédryj véčir)
- Vietnamese: giao thừa (vi)
- Welsh: Nos Galan f
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