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English term or phrase:

ween

English answer:

ween

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Apr 15, 2020 02:05
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English term

ween

Non-PRO English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters ween
I still feel this is not the right way to do the weens on the Hallow Eve.
We should've hallowed the weens properly.

Is "Ween" here means celebrating the day?

Thanks in advance,
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Discussion

S.J (asker) Apr 16, 2020:
Thank you all. That's so helpful.
Yvonne Gallagher Apr 15, 2020:
I agree with Tomasso What this basically means: "I still feel Halloween is not celebrated properly as a real Christian holiday to honor All Saints, We should have [...] properly celebrated All Saints Day with Christian ceremonies and symbols " (rather than mixing it with pagan elements. (and yes, Halloweeen or Hallows' even(ing) is a Christianised version of the ancient Irish pagan festival of Samhain
philgoddard Apr 15, 2020:
May be relevant Ween or wean is a Scottish word meaning child.
Tomasso Apr 15, 2020:
weens from Evenings playful English, weens is not a real word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween Quote....alloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening),[5] also known as Allhalloween,[6] All Hallows' Eve,[7] or All Saints' Eve,[8] is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. Unquote.
Many Christians oppose Halloween as coming from other religions, Druids, Wiccan, as a mixture of older religions.
Trans. I still feel this (non Christian aspects or symbols) is not the right way to do the weens (playful fanciful EVenings- Weens) on the Hallow Eve. (The All Saints Day established by the Church.)
We should've hallowed the weens properly.
Paraphrastic trans...I still feel Halloween is not celebrated properly as a real Christian holiday to honor All Saints, We should have (past history h?) properly celebrated All Saints Day with Christian cermonies and symbols and not allowed the mixing with old religions which are not Christian.
(This an aspect of Puritans, Purifying so called Paganism. See; s://www.apuritansmind.com/the-christian-walk/a-brief-history-of...

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ween

This is a punning use of English, a joke, taking a proper word (Halloween) and breaking it down into another proper word (hallow = bless) and a nonsense word (ween). Similarly, if they'd been talking about Samain, the pagan name for the feast, they could have said something like "this is Sam's ain day". I think you'd need to find a play on words in whatever language you're translating into, to get an equivalent effect for it: a direct translation won't work.
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard : This is possibly untranslatable.
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agree JaneTranslates : Agree. It might help the asker to know that while "ween" is a nonsense word, the two parts of Halloween are actually hallow and e'en, "e'en" being a contraction of "even" or "eve"--that is, the evening before All Hallow's Day.
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Reference comments

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Reference:

French, encore en arapi

Maybe look at ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
a plupart des historiens considèrent la fête folklorique païenne traditionnelle d'Halloween comme un héritage de Samain, une fête qui était célébrée au début de l'automne par les celtes et constituait pour eux une sorte de fête du nouvel an7,8,9,10
Encore , https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/هالووين

yom halwyn

Maybe it will not work, do not have Arabic keyboard.
Peer comments on this reference comment:

agree Yvonne Gallagher : yes, it's Christianised SamHain
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