Diwali

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from +. .

Proper noun

 * 1)  An annual festival of light, observed during several days in October and November.

Usage notes
The terms or  are more common in North India while  is more prevalent in South India due to the loaning of each term from local source languages. This difference extends to diaspora communities, with areas that have seen more migration from one region adopting that term for the festival.

Synonyms

 * , (more often used in Malaysia and Singapore)
 * , (more often used in Malaysia and Singapore)

Translations

 * Arabic: دِيوَالِي
 * Assamese: দেৱালী, দীপাৱলী
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: Дива́ли
 * Burmese:, ဒေဝါလီ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 排燈節
 * Danish: Divali
 * Dutch: Divali, Diwali
 * Finnish: diwali, divali, deepavali
 * German: Diwali
 * Gujarati: દિવાળી, દીપાવલી
 * Hindi:, दीवाली, , , , , , , ,
 * Indonesian: Deepavali, Dipawali
 * Irish: Díbheálaí
 * Japanese: ディーワーリー
 * Kannada:
 * Konkani: दिवाळी
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Marathi: दिवाळी
 * Nepali:, दीपावली
 * Odia: ଦୀପାବଳୀ
 * Persian:, دیوالی, دیپاولی
 * Portuguese: Diwali, Divali
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi:, , ਦੀਪਾਵਲੀ
 * Shahmukhi: دوالی, دیپاولی
 * Rajasthani: दियाळी
 * Russian: Дива́ли, Дипа́вали
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Дивали, Дипавали
 * Roman: Divali, Dipavali
 * Sindhi: دیاری
 * Sinhalese: දීපාවලි
 * Spanish: Diwali, Divali, festival de las luces
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Tulu: ദീപാവളി
 * Turkish: Divali
 * Ukrainian: Діва́лі, Діпа́валі
 * Urdu: دوالی, دیپاولی

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)   Diwali