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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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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,
We should've hallowed the weens properly.
Is "Ween" here means celebrating the day?
Thanks in advance,
Responses
4 +2 | ween | Charlotte Fleming |
References
French, encore en arapi | Tomasso |
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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.
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philgoddard
: This is possibly untranslatable.
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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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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.
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.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: yes, it's Christianised SamHain
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Discussion
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...