English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi होली (holī), from Sanskrit होली (holī).
Proper noun
Holi
- A Hindu festival, held in the spring, during which people throw coloured powders at each other during noisy street celebrations.
1830, Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood, Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, page 229:At the Hoolie or Spring Festival, which happened in March, the Sepoys came round in procession, and exhibited anautch for our amusement in front of our bungalow, and a sort of play, the performers enacting the part of wild beasts.
Translations
Hindu festival
- Assamese: ফাঁকুৱা (phãkua), দৌল উৎসৱ (doul utxow), হলি (holi)
- Bengali: দোলযাত্রা (bn) (dōlojatra)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 侯丽节
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: holi
- French: Holî f
- Greek: Χόλι (el) (Chóli)
- Gujarati: હોળી (hoḷī)
- Hindi: होली (hi) f (holī)
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Malayalam: ഹോളി (hōḷi), ഹോലി (hōli)
- Marathi: होळी (hoḷī)
- Marwari: होळी (hoḷī)
- Nepali: होली (holī)
- Odia: ହୋଲି (holi)
- Persian: هولی (fa) (holi)
- Portuguese: Holi m
- Punjabi: ਹੋਲੀ (pa) (holī), ہولی (holī)
- Russian: Холи (ru) (Xoli)
- Sanskrit: होली (sa) (holī)
- Sinhalese: හෝලි උත්සවය (hōli utsawaya)
- Slovak: Holí
- Spanish: holi m
- Tamil: ஹோலி (hōli)
- Telugu: హోళీ (te) (hōḷī)
- Turkish: holi
- Urdu: ہولی f (holī)
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Portuguese
Proper noun
Holi m
- (Hinduism) Holi (a spring festival)