Christmas and New Year

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Navidad  - Christmas

[TABLE=sortable;compact]
{||}Spanish | English
{|}¡Feliz Navidad!|Merry Christmas!
{|}Navidad/Día  de Navidad|Christmas Day
{|}navideño(a) |Christmas related
{|}serie  (de luces )|Christmas lights / string lights / string of lights
{|}nacimiento /Belén[nm]|Nativity
{|}árbol  (de Navidad)/árbol de pascua |Christmas tree
{|}muñeco  de nieve |snowman
{|}esfera |(spherical) ornament
{|}corona |wreath
{|}heno |hay
{|}regalo |present
{|}moño |bow
{|}bota |stocking
{|}duende |elf (Santa's little helpers)
{|}Santa Clos / Papá Noel|Santa Claus
{|}trineo |sledge / sled / sleigh
{|}reno |reindeer
{|}Rodolfo (el reno de la nariz  roja) |Rudolf (the red-nosed reindeer)
{|}nochebuena |poinsettia
{|}Noche  Buena |Christmas Eve
{|}piñata |piñata
{|}muérdago |mistletoe
{|}brindis |toast
{|}chimenea |chimney
{|}campana |bell
{|}cascabel  |(jingle) bell /sleigh bell
{|}vela |candle
{|}bastón  de caramelo |candy cane
{|}copo  de nieve |snowflake
{|}tarjeta  de Navidad|Christmas card
{|}juguetes |toys
{|}reyes  magos  (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)
{|}oro |gold
{|}incienso |frankincense
{|}mirra |myrrh
{|}escarcha  (Mexico)|frost / tinsel / garland
{|}espumillón  (Spain)|garland
{|}Año  Nuevo |New Year
{|}¡Feliz Año Nuevo!|Happy New Year!
{|}Año Viejo|Old Year
{|}Noche  Vieja|New Year's Eve
{|}fuegos  artificiales|fireworks
{|}propósitos  de año nuevo|New Year's resolutions
{|}envoltura  de regalo /papel[g]nm de regalo|gift wrap / wrapping paper
{|}felicitación |greeting
{|}villancico |Christmas carol
{|}pan  de frutas /pan de pascua|fruitcake
{|}galleta  de jengibre |gingerbread
{|}aguinaldo |Christmas bonus
[/TABLE]

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

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

[Perikles]

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 ()

nacimientoNM/Belén: Nativity

jingle bell (?) : just 'bell'

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

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

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

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

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.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

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

[laepelba]

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

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by Perikles

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

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.

Originally Posted by laepelba

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

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?

[laepelba]

Originally Posted by pjt33

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!!

[Rusty]

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)

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

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.


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

[laepelba]

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......)

[chileno]

Originally Posted by laepelba

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.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

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?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

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?

Yes... I changed it.

La "clorita" se está poniendo pesada...

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

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?

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.

[Elaina]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

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.

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!

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

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

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.


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

We call this "espumillón".

[ROBINDESBOIS]

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

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by laepelba

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

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).