Shrove Tuesday

English

Etymology

The second element is Tuesday; the first element may be a reflex of Old English *scrāf “confession” (related to the modern verb shrive), from the medieval practice of priests hearing confessions on this day.

Noun

Shrove Tuesday (plural Shrove Tuesdays)

1. The day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.

   Coordinate term: Fat Thursday

   • 1712, Erra Pater, A Prognostication for Ever, Made by Erra Pater, page 7:

     Observe when the Moon is new in February, the next Tuesday after is Shrove-tuesday: but if it change on Tuesday, then the next Tuesday following is Shrove-tuesday

   • 1779, David Dalyrymple, Annals of Scotland From the Accenssion of Robert I, page 283:

     The day appointed for this extraordinary hunting-party was Shrove Tuesday. The Protestants of Paisley, in whose neighbourhood this story may be said to have originated, cannot discern the difference betwixt Shrove Tuesday and any other Tuesday; but if a Roman Catholic Princess, even in our free times, should be invited to a hunting-match on Shrove Tuesday, she would be shocked at the profane invitation.

Synonyms

• Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday
• Pancake Day
• Pancake Tuesday
• Carnival

Translations

day before the beginning of Lent

• Arabic: الثلاثاء البدين, ثلاثاء المرافع, يوم البان كيك هي
• Armenian: բարեկենդան (hy) (barekendan)
• Belarusian: ма́сьленіца f (másʹljenica)
• Breton: Meurlarjez (br), Mallarje, Mallarjez, Mallarde, Meurzh al Lard, an Ened
• Carpathian Rusyn: фашенґі (fašengi)
• Catalan: dimarts de carnaval m
• Danish: hvide tirsdag c
• Dutch: vastenavond m
• Estonian: vastlapäev, vastlad
• Finnish: laskiaistiistai (fi), (colloquial) laskiainen (fi)
• French: mardi gras (fr) m
• Galician: martes de entroido m
• German: Faschingsdienstag m, Fastnachtsdienstag (de) m
• Hungarian: húshagyókedd (hu)
• Indonesian: Selasa Gemuk
• Ingrian: Liukupäivä
• Irish: Máirt Inide f, Máirt na hInide f
• Italian: martedì grasso m
• Japanese: パンケーキ・デイ (pankēki-dei)
• Korean: 팬케이크 데이 (paenkeikeu dei)
• Louisiana Creole: Maddi Gra
• Manx: Jemayrt Innyd m, Oie Innyd f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fetetirsdag c, feitetirsdag c, feittirsdag c, grautatirsdag c, hvitetirsdag c

  Nynorsk: feitetysdag c, feittysdag c

• Pennsylvania German: Faschtnachtsdaag m, Faasnachtdaag m, Fassnacht f
• Persian: سه‌شنبه اعتراف
• Polish: tłusty czwartek (pl) m
• Portuguese: terça-feira gorda f, terça-feira de carnaval f
• Romanian: lăsatul secului de carne
• Russian: ма́сленица (ru) f (máslenica)
• Scottish Gaelic: Dimàirt Inide m, Dimàirt na h-Inide m
• Skolt Sami: maiddpââʹzzlâšttam
• Slovak: Fašiangy
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zapust m

• Spanish: martes de carnaval m
• Swedish: fettisdag (sv) c
• Turkish: Tövbe Salısı
• Ukrainian: ма́сниця f (másnycja)
• Welsh: Dydd Mawrth Ynyd m
• West Frisian: Fêsteljûn

See also

• Shrovetide

Further reading

• Shrove Tuesday on Wikipedia.Wikipedia