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Navidad^NFP - Christmas

Spanish	English
¡Feliz Navidad!	Merry Christmas!
Navidad/DíaNM de Navidad	Christmas Day
navideño(a)ADJ	Christmas related
serieNF (de lucesNFP)	Christmas lights / string lights / string of lights
nacimientoNM/Belén[nm]	Nativity
árbolNM (de Navidad)/árbol de pascuaNF	Christmas tree
muñecoNM de nieveNF	snowman
esferaNF	(spherical) ornament
coronaNF	wreath
henoNM	hay
regaloNM	present
moñoNM	bow
botaNF	stocking
duendeNM	elf (Santa's little helpers)
Santa Clos / Papá Noel	Santa Claus
trineoNM	sledge / sled / sleigh
renoNM	reindeer
Rodolfo (el reno de la narizNF roja)	Rudolf (the red-nosed reindeer)
nochebuenaNF	poinsettia
NocheNF BuenaNF	Christmas Eve
piñataNF	piñata
muérdagoNM	mistletoe
brindisNM	toast
chimeneaNF	chimney
campanaNF	bell
cascabel NM	(jingle) bell /sleigh bell
velaNF	candle
bastónNM de carameloNM	candy cane
copoNM de nieveNF	snowflake
tarjetaNF de Navidad	Christmas card
juguetesNMP	toys
reyesNMP magosNMP (Melchor, Gaspar y Baltasar)	the (three) Wise Men (of/from the East) / the (Three) Kings (from the Orient) / the Magi (Caspar/Gaspar/Jaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar)
oroNM	gold
inciensoNM	frankincense
mirraNF	myrrh
escarchaNF (Mexico)	frost / tinsel / garland
espumillónNM (Spain)	garland
AñoNM NuevoNM	New Year
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!	Happy New Year!
Año Viejo	Old Year
NocheNM Vieja	New Year's Eve
fuegosNMP artificiales	fireworks
propósitosNMP de año nuevo	New Year's resolutions
envolturaNF de regaloNM/papel[g]nm de regalo	gift wrap / wrapping paper
felicitaciónNF	greeting
villancicoNM	Christmas carol
panNM de frutasNFP/pan de pascua	fruitcake
galletaNF de jengibreNM	gingerbread
aguinaldoNM	Christmas bonus

Just to fit the season... I'm sure there will be a few regional variation additions, it will be nice to learn them. :)

My dictionary: piñata: container hung up during festivites and hit with a stick to release candy

It looks like there is no English word

Año viejo: Old Year (:rolleyes:)

nacimientoNM/Belén: Nativity

jingle bell (?) : just 'bell'

magi (do they have proper names in English?) : NO

Thanks, Perikles! I have attached a picture with a "cascabel" and a "campana". Are they still the same?

I know the difference (casabel is something fixed to children's things sometimes), but as far as I know, there is no English word to differentiate beween them. Toy bell. Church bell. Cow bell. Bells. :(:)

This is fine... I assume the use of some pictures will be needed to clarify some meanings anyway. :)

I would call them "jingle bells" regardless of how they are used and regardless of the time of year. :) Cascabeles!

Depende. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi#Names
Muchas veces cuando imprimen el villancico "We Three Kings" ponen los nombres tradicionales como títulos de las estrofas que hablan de los regalos.

How would you parse that? Is it an NP made up of a VP and an NP, or are you taking "jingle" as an adjective or noun?

Hmmm... I'm not exactly sure what you are asking here. SORRY!! :(

American English:

serie (de luces) = Christmas lights / string lights / string of lights
trineo = sled / sleigh
envoltura de regalo = gift wrap / wrapping paper
cascabeles = jingle bells / sleigh bells

los Reyes Magos = the Wise Men / the (three) Wise Men (of/from the East) / the (Three) Kings (from the Orient) / the Magi :
their number is uncertain, but set at three because three gifts were mentioned by Matthew :
there are various names given to them, but Caspar (Gaspar, Jaspar), Melchior, and Balthasar are the most popular; these have been used since the 8th century (derived from an Alexandrian text dated two centuries earlier)

Please provide a picture of escarcha. Is it the same as guirnalda? Tinsel can mean a garland (a chain made out of bright, shiny plastic strands) or the thin shiny plastic strands that hang over the branches of a Christmas tree to make it look like it has icicles hanging from the branches (this kind of tinsel is also called icicles). Could cinta brillante be used for tinsel / guirnalda?

(corona has an inadvertent / behind it)

Thank you, Rusty. Additions and corrections are made.

"Escarcha" as tinsel can be a Mexican word only.
I find "cinta brillante" too general, but maybe it's used somewhere else to talk about a string of glittering strips or threads.

"Guirnalda" could be the more generalized word. :thinking:


"Cinta brillante" would suggest to me a flat and smooth ribbon.

Garland is the stuff that is attached in a long rope/string:
http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/photo...as_garland.jpg

Tinsel is the stuff that falls off in individual pieces.......
http://images.ecommetrix.com/commerc...2009%20091.JPG

(Don't know how to make the thumbnail images......)

The first one is a guirnalda and the second is escarcha.

árbol de pascua = christmas tree

pan de pascua =mix of fruit cake and panettone

... in Chile. :)

Changes proposed by Lou Ann and Hernán are made. :)


I've heard "pan de pascua" (or "pan de frutas") as "fruitcake"... is it a Mexicanism or is it normally called so in English-speaking countries? :D

Yes... I changed it. :)

La "clorita" se está poniendo pesada... :(

:D

Where you have gotten the ( Pan de pascua ). I mean in that store sells it, I have never heard about that bread in my life, I'd like give it a little bite.:D

Be careful what you wish for. Fruit cake has gotten a bad rap for a long time. Eventhough some chefs are trying to "bring it back", so to speak, it is still something that many people stay away from or re-gift it over and over again!:D

It has been alluded that Fruit cake can last for years and years....I don't know if that is true or not. :eek:

:footinmouth:

We call this "espumillón". :)

Gingerbread girl
Sleighbells
Ornaments
Noisemakers
Carolers
Fireplace
Christmas crackers
Santa´s snack
NAtivity scene
Bulbs
Holly
Christmas bonus

There are various ways of forming noun phrases (NPs) in English. There's the simple noun (e.g. bell). There's adjective + NP (e.g. golden bell). There's NP + NP (e.g. sleigh bell).

The only context in which I know the phrase "jingle bell" is the song "Jingle bells", in which "jingle" is a verb used as an imperative. I'm not familiar with "jingle bell" as a noun phrase, and I'm trying to understand the construction. Is it just adopted from the song with a change from verb phrase (verb + subject) to noun phrase, or are you using jingle as an adjective or noun? (If you don't know then I may try asking a linguist).

Usually it's gingerbread man not girl but I suppose if there's on gender of gingerbread cookie there's another. Otherwise in theory they would never reproduce there wouldn't be any gingerbread cookies. :sad:

Eleana tiene razón fruitcake tiene una mala reputación y quisiera añadir que la merece. No obstante sirve bien como un quisio.

A propósito: Si una persona es nuttier than a fruitcake
significa que es desquisiado

A propósito: Una otra palabra Christmastime es Yuletide

Ahhh!! Thanks for explaining. It was the "NP" stuff that I didn't follow with. I'm not very good with grammar. :)

YES, I use "jingle bells" as a noun phrase. I don't know of any commonly used name for that type of bell, and since we usually only see them at Christmas time anyway, it's easy to refer to them as "jingle bells", and everyone knows exactly what I'm referring to.

I would probably guess that the sense is from the song. But I never thought of the word "jingle" as an imperative when it's used in the song. I suppose you may be right. But when I consider the song (and just discussed this with a colleague), the word "jingle" is simply modifying "bells". "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way...." just says to me that I'm hearing the jingling of bells (that specific kind of bell) and that it happens the entire time that the sleigh is moving along.

Not sure if that answer is sufficient........

By the way - you can't even imagine the kind of conversation two MATH teachers could have about a point of English grammar......... LOL!! :D

By the way, I really do NOT like fruitcake...........

"envolturaNF de regaloNM" es también "papel de regalo", por lo menos aquí.

¿Como se dice "Christmas Day"? O ¿es que no hay traducción adecuada? No me sorprendería porque parece importar mucho menos en las culturas hispanohablantes que en las anglosajonas.

It's like pipe tobacco

A que sí. La mitad de mis amigos universitarios eran estudiantes de mates. :p

Me too! :-)

Ours is not soft as panettone and it has walnuts in it. It goes stale so you cannot keep it for a long time.

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I thought garland = guirnalda

@pjt33: Hmmm. I'm not a linguist, but for what's it's worth, here are my :twocents:

The noun 'jingle bell' is a particular type of bell. It is also known as a 'sleigh bell', which happens to be a noun composed of two words, too. It's possible that the 'sleigh' in 'sleigh bell' could be an adjective, a verb, or a noun. No dictionary I checked gave an etymology. It would be my guess that the 'jingle' in 'jingle bell' could also be an adjective, a verb, or a noun. The Random House dictionary says the word was coined around 1885.

Jingle bells can be bought in any city of America. You can buy a single bell, or you can buy them in a group. Many people hang them on walls, doors, doorknobs, or on a horse's harness.
Bands and orchestras buy a group of jingle bells mounted on a wood block with a handle. The percussionist holds the handle with one hand, the jingle bells hanging downward, and bounces the block into the palm of his/her other hand to make the bells ring.

My take on the song "Jingle Bells" is not the same as yours. I hear "Jingle bells (noun), Jingle bells (noun), Jingle (present tense 3rd-person plural verb) all the way." "Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!"

Jingle is clearly onomatopoeic, and I would bet with pjt that jingle is an imperative in that annoying song. Having said that, Jingle bells (noun) is just as likely. In this particular case, I'm afraid I don't care much. :rolleyes:

Edit: Wiki says

Music historian James Fuld notes that the "the word jingle in the title and opening phrase is apparently an imperative verb."[3] However, it is commonly taken to mean a certain kind of bell.

So there we are. It is possible that at the time of writing the song, Pierpont meant the verb. On the basis of the expression in the song, the noun 'jingle bell' was invented, or just misunderstood. This is my theory, which is either brilliant, or total crap. :thinking::D

is lanturn (sp??) in there? Or wait, the New Year has nothing to do with Chinese New Year right...?

Día de Navidad o, simplemente, Navidad.

¿No conoces el villancico?

"Esta noche es Nochebuena
y mañana Navidad,
saca la bota María
que me voy a emborrachar.

Ande, ande, ande
la Marimorena,
ande, ande, ande
que es la Nochebuena"

:D

My grandma used to bake fruitcake, always choosing fresh ingredients and it was delicious... but we all grew older and everyone around started avoiding sugar, fat and flour. :D

You may want to add aguinaldo to the list

:D But I like your theory... :)

¿Y el turrón? Do you know what "turrón" is? I don't think there is a word for turrón or for polvorones. ;)

That's a Christmas Bonus.

Nah, just add it to my pocket. :)

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Noche buena = Christmas Eve

Fruitcake can last a very long time, especially if it's got enough rum or brandy in it.

It does keep amazingly well, anyway.

There are much better ways of consuming rum or brandy............ ;):applause::eek::D:dancingman::wicked::whistling: :raisetheroof:

I wouldn't hesitate to classify it as an NP := NP NP construction. A sleigh bell is a bell (N) which is attached (or designed to be attached) to a sleigh (N).

Where by "present tense" you intend to imply also "indicative"? Interesting. I'm definitely resolved to ask a linguist for comment, because it's looking like an interesting question. My current operating theory is the same as Perikles'.

No conozco ningún villancico en español salvo algunas palabras de "Noche de paz". Si tuviera niños quizás tendría por que conocerlos, pero no estoy seguro si los niños cantan de emborracharse :D

No hay traducción para "turrón" ni "polvorones". Es que los conceptos no existen. (Además he descubierto que a la mayoría de mi familia no le gusta el turrón. A ver si este año llevo un paquete de polvorones conmigo cuando vaya a pasar la Navidad con ellos).

And it can be used as a weapon

Turrones se vende aquí y torrone(turron italiano) tambien.

In what way? That it is supposed to grow on you? Because I actually enjoy the scent of pipe tobacco, although I've never actually tried to smoke a pipe.

Thanks for this breakdown, Rusty ... makes sense.

Yeah, the more I thought about it, the more I thought it might be imperative in intent. But we have morphed it into a noun phrase. :)

Can you find a YouTube video of that carol? In fact, can anyone post links to (or embed) some YouTube videos of Spanish carols? That would be SO cool!!

No - can you describe these things? OOPS - spoke to soon. I just found "polvorón" in RAE. Here: http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltCons...&LEMA=polvoron - sounds yummy!

La Marimorena (en serio, sin la bota de María :D -there are several versions):



Turrón

http://figupolo.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/turron.jpg

Polvorones:

http://www.sanenrique.com/imagenes/c...mendra-met.jpg

Many thanks for this thread

Yes, it's interesting. :)

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Ditto. Exactly what I was thinking--and have experienced personally.:)

cool. I just learnt some new things today!

Paja-hay

@Esppiral, al principio pensaba que decías que en este hilo "había paja"... (as in the thread full of "straw = rubbish") :eek: ... pero por fin me di cuenta de que decías, "paja = hay" :thumbsup:

¡Ay, ay, ay!

Yes, "paja = hay, straw" :)

Jaja vaya salidas tienes Jpablo xD