eve

Etymology
From a variant of the noun  (itself from ), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. See also the now archaic or poetic, from the same source.

In medieval Europe, days were considered to extend from sunset to sunset rather than midnight to midnight, so the night before a holiday was considered part of it, hence its "eve".

Noun

 * 1) The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
 * 2)  Evening, night.
 * 3)   The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
 * 1)   The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
 * 1)   The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
 * 1)   The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:evening

Translations

 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azerbaijani:, ərəfə
 * Bulgarian: навечерие
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, (Church)
 * Esperanto: antaŭvespero
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: vilie
 * Galician: véspera
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Ladin: ueia, vea, vëia
 * Ladino: arba
 * Latin: vesper
 * Latvian: priekšvakars
 * Ligurian: vigília
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: vigília
 * Maltese: lejliet
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: ǣfen
 * Piedmontese: vigilia
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: предвечерје, предвече
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bisperas
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: передде́нь
 * Urdu:
 * Volapük:


 * Azerbaijani:, ərəfə
 * Russian: ,

Numeral

 * 1) three

Numeral

 * 1) two

Etymology
Slang, from (folk-etymologically connected with the nickname, with which it is unrelated)

Noun

 * 1) ecstasy drug

Verb

 * 1)  to wait, doubt, drag one's feet

Etymology 1
From,. Compare also with earlier.

Verb

 * 1)  to wait, doubt, drag one's feet

Noun

 * 1) doubt, uncertainty

Etymology 2
Related to  and.

Noun

 * 1) trace, rest

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) ; water

Noun

 * 1) buttocks

Alternative forms

 * (southern zazaki)

Article

 * 1) the