单词 | diwali |
释义 | Diwalin. A Hindu festival with illuminations held on the day of the new moon in the month Asvina or Kārttika. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > other seasons and feasts > Hindu > [noun] Diwali1698 puja1775 Onam1794 mela1801 Kumbh Mela1810 Navaratri1929 festival of colours1939 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 110 The first New Moon in October, is the Banyans Dually. 1820 T. Coats in Trans. Lit. Soc. Bombay (1823) 3 211 The Dewallee, Deepaullee, or Time of Lights, takes place twenty days after the Dussera, and lasts three days. 1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 84 The Díwálí happening to fall on this day, the whole river was bright with lamps. 1883 M. Williams Relig. Thought & Life in India 432 The Dīvālī is celebrated with splendid effect at Benares. 1952 J. Masters Deceivers xiv. 142 It was the Dewali, the festival dedicated to lights and gambling, which fell always on the twentieth day after Dussehra. 1969 Eve's Weekly (Bombay) 20 Dec. 33/1 It is not Divali, but Christmas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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