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English
Etymology
From Middle French liturgie, from Latin liturgia, from Ancient Greek λειτουργία (leitourgía), from λειτ- (leit-), from λαός (laós, “people”) + -ουργός (-ourgós), from ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (the public work of the people done on behalf of the people).
Pronunciation
Noun
liturgy (countable and uncountable, plural liturgies)
- A predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion; a book in which they are recorded.
- Hypernym: (set of rituals) tradition
- Near-synonyms: (book) breviary, missal, portal, portass, psalter
- An official worship service of the Christian church.
- (historical) In Ancient Greece, a form of personal service to the state.
Derived terms
Translations
a predetermined or prescribed set of rituals
- Afrikaans: liturgie
- Albanian: liturgjia f
- Armenian: պատարագ (hy) (patarag)
- Belarusian: літургі́я f (liturhíja), багаслу́жба f (bahaslúžba), богаслужэ́нне n (bohaslužénnje)
- Breton: liderezh m
- Bulgarian: литурги́я f (liturgíja), богослуже́ние n (bogoslužénie)
- Catalan: litúrgia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 禮拜儀式 / 礼拜仪式 (zh) (lǐbài yíshì), 禮儀 / 礼仪 (zh) (lǐyí)
- Corsican: liturgia f
- Czech: liturgie f
- Danish: liturgi c
- Dutch: liturgie (nl) f
- Esperanto: liturgio
- Estonian: liturgia
- Finnish: liturgia (fi), alttaripalvelus
- French: liturgie (fr) f
- Friulian: liturgjie f
- Galician: liturxia (gl) f
- Georgian: ლიტურგია (ka) (liṭurgia)
- German: Liturgie (de) f
- Greek: λειτουργία (el) f (leitourgía)
- Hebrew: לִיטוּרגִיָה (he) f (litúrgia)
- Hungarian: liturgia (hu)
- Italian: liturgia (it) f
- Japanese: 典礼 (ja) (てんれい, tenrei) (Catholic), 奉神礼 (ほうしんれい, hōshinrei) (Orthodox), 礼拝 (ja) (れいはい, reihai) (Catholic, Protestant, Anglicanism)
- Korean: 전례(典禮) (ko) (jeollye), 예전(禮典) (ko) (yejeon), 례전(禮典) (ryejeon) (North Korea)
- Ladino: liturjia
- Latin: liturgia f
- Latvian: liturģija f
- Lithuanian: liturgija (lt) f
- Macedonian: литургија f (liturgija), богослужба f (bogoslužba), богослужение n (bogosluženie)
- Malay: upacara (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: liturgi m
- Nynorsk: liturgi m
- Occitan: liturgia (oc) f
- Piedmontese: liturgìa f
- Polish: liturgia (pl) f
- Portuguese: liturgia (pt) f
- Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: liturghie (ro) f
- Russian: литурги́я (ru) f (liturgíja), богослуже́ние (ru) n (bogoslužénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: литургија f, богослужба f, богoслужје n, богослужење n
- Roman: liturgija (sh) f, bogoslužba f, bogoslužje (sh) n, bogosluženje (sh) n
- Slovak: liturgia f
- Slovene: liturgija (sl) f
- Spanish: liturgia (es) f
- Swedish: liturgi (sv) c
- Tagalog: palasambahan, palamisahan, liturhiya
- Tok Pisin: liteji
- Turkish: litürji
- Ukrainian: літургі́я (uk) f (liturhíja), богослужі́ння (uk) n (bohoslužínnja)
- Urdu: لطوریا f (litūriā)
- Vietnamese: thánh lễ (vi), lễ trọng, phụng vụ (vi)
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West Frisian
Pronunciation
Noun
liturgy c (plural liturgyen or liturgys)
- liturgy
Further reading
- “liturgy”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
