UKRAINIAN TRADITIONS | |
EASTER -- VELYKDEN' |
A short glossary of holiday terms and expressions
Ukrainian cyrillic
Ukrainian transliterated
- Velykden'
- Khrystos Voskres
- Voyistynu Voskres
- Veselykh Sviat
- plashchenytsia
- Paska
- Shutka, loza
- Pysanka (Pysanky, pl.)
- Krashanka (Krashanky, pl.)
- hahilky (hayivka), vesnianky
English translation
- Easter
- Christ is Risen
- He has truly risen
- Happy holidays
- Christ's tomb
- Easter "babka" (bread)
- Willow
- Easter egg
- Easter egg (usu. one color)
- Easter, spring dances
Greeting:
Christ is Risen!
Response:
He truly has risen!
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