carnival

Etymology
From, from , possibly from the phrase. Other scholars suggest Latin or  instead. .

Noun

 * 1) Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
 * 2) A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
 * 3)  A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
 * 4)  A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
 * 5)  A gaudily chaotic situation.
 * 1)  A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
 * 2)  A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
 * 3)  A gaudily chaotic situation.
 * 1)  A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
 * 2)  A gaudily chaotic situation.
 * 1)  A gaudily chaotic situation.

Translations

 * Asturian:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Mòcheno: Vosnòcht
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: zapust
 * Spanish: ,


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: كَرْنَفَال
 * Egyptian Arabic: مرفع
 * Hijazi Arabic: كرنفال
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: karnaval
 * Basque: inauteria
 * Belarusian: карнава́л
 * Bengali: কার্নিভাল
 * Bulgarian: карнава́л
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎾᏛᏁᎵᏍᎬ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: karneval
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: karnavalo
 * Estonian: karneval
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, antroido, entruido
 * Georgian: ყეენობა, კარნავალი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: कार्निवल
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: karnival,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: карнавал
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: карнавал
 * Latvian: karnevāls
 * Lithuanian: karnavalas
 * Macedonian: карнева́л
 * Maltese: karnival
 * Maori: hui taurima, taiopenga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: karneval
 * Persian:, کارنوال
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: карнѐва̄л, покладе
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: karneval
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: karnabal
 * Tajik: карнавал
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: karnaval
 * Ukrainian: карнава́л
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: hội hóa trang (會化妝), hội trá hình (會詐形), các-na-van


 * Bulgarian: пъту́ващ цирк
 * Esperanto: amuzejo
 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1)  To participate in a carnival.
 * 2)  To move about playfully or wildly.