Good Friday

English

Etymology

From good (“holy”); compare good tide to refer to Christmas or Shrovetide (e.g. Goodtyde and Gudtyde in some British dialects), Good Wednesday, and the Good Book to refer to the Bible. Earlier called Old English Langa-Friġedæġ (“Long Friday”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡʊd fɹaɪːdɛɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Good Friday (countable and uncountable, plural Good Fridays)

2. (Christianity) The Friday before Easter Sunday, the commemoration of the day on which Christ was crucified.

   Synonyms: Holy Friday, Great Friday, Golden Friday, Black Friday, Pasch of the Cross

   Holonyms: Holy Week < Eastertime

   Comeronyms: Palm Sunday; Holy Monday; Holy Tuesday; Holy Wednesday, Good Wednesday, Spy Wednesday; Holy Thursday, Maundy Thursday, Green Thursday, Sheer Thursday, White Thursday; Holy Saturday, Black Saturday

   • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book X. Holy week.] Chap[ter] IV.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 43:

     But Good Friday soon restored to lord Nelville all those religious emotions, the want of which he so much regretted on the preceding days.

Derived terms

• Good Friday grass
• Good Friday plant

Translations

The Friday before Easter Sunday, the commemoration of the day on which Christ was crucified

• Afrikaans: Goeie Vrydag
• Arabic: الْجُمْعَة الْعَظِيمَة f (al-jumʕa al-ʕaẓīma); جُمْعَة الْآلَام f (jumʕat al-ʔālām),
• Aragonese: Viernes Santo m
• Armenian: Ավագ ուրբաթ (Avag urbatʻ)
• Aromanian: Stã-Vinjiri f, Vinjirea Mari f
• Basque: Ostiral Santua
• Breton: Gwener-ar-Groaz (br) m
• Bulgarian: Разпе́ти пе́тък m (Razpéti pétăk)
• Catalan: Divendres Sant
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耶穌受難節 / 耶稣受难节 (zh) (Yēsū shòunànjié), 耶穌受難日 / 耶稣受难日 (Yēsū shòunànrì), 受難節 / 受难节 (shòunànjié)

• Czech: Velký pátek (cs) m
• Danish: langfredag (da) c
• Dutch: Goede Vrijdag (nl) m
• Elfdalian: launggfrjådag m
• Esperanto: Sankta Vendredo
• Estonian: suur reede
• Faroese: langafríggjadagur m
• Finnish: pitkäperjantai (fi)
• French: vendredi saint (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Goedfreed

• Galician: Venres Santo m
• Georgian: დიდი პარასკევი (didi ṗarasḳevi), წითელი პარასკევი (c̣iteli ṗarasḳevi)
• German: Karfreitag (de) m, Charfreitag m, Hoher Freitag m, Stiller Freitag m

  Rhine Franconian: Kafreidag

• Greek: Μεγάλη Παρασκευή (el) f (Megáli Paraskeví)
• Greenlandic: tallimanngornersuaq, tallimanngortoq tannaartoq
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} Arapoteĩ marangatu

• Hebrew: יום שישי הטוב m (yom shishi hatov)
• Hindi: गुड फ़्राइडे (guḍ frāiḍe), होली फ़्राइडे (holī frāiḍe)
• Hungarian: nagypéntek (hu)
• Icelandic: föstudagurinn langi (is) m
• Indonesian: Jumat Agung
• Ingrian: Strastnoi Päätetsä
• Irish: Aoine an Chéasta f
• Italian: Venerdì Santo (it) m
• Japanese: 聖金曜日 (ja) (せいきんようび, Sei-kinyōbi), 受難日 (ja) (じゅなんび, Junanbi)
• Jeju: 우순오리 (usunori)
• Korean: 수난일 (ko) (sunanil), 성금요일 (seonggeumyoil) (used predominantly in the Roman Catholic church)
• Latin: Diēs Passiōnis Dominī m, Parascēvē f (Late Latin)
• Latvian: Lielā Piektdiena
• Limburgish: Goje Vriedig
• Lithuanian: Didysis Penktadienis
• Low German:

  German Low German: Stillfreedag

• Luxembourgish: Karfreideg m
• Malay: Jumaat Agung (ms)
• Malayalam: ദുഖഃവെള്ളി (dukhaḥveḷḷi), ദുഃഖ വെള്ളി (duḥkha veḷḷi)
• Maltese: Ġimgħa l-Kbira
• Manx: Jeheiney Chaisht
• Navajo: Ndaʼiiníísh Yáʼátʼéehii, Jesus Biʼdiisxínę́ędą́ą́ʼ Bééhániih
• Norman: Lé Véndrédi Saint m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: langfredag m

  Nynorsk: langfredag m

• Occitan: Venredí Sant m
• Old English: Langa-Friġedæġ m
• Pennsylvania German: Karfreidaag
• Plautdietsch: Stelle Friedach f
• Polish: Wielki Piątek (pl) m
• Portuguese: Sexta-feira Santa (pt)
• Romanian: Vinerea Mare (ro) f, Vinerea Patimilor (ro) f
• Romansh: venderdi sontg m
• Russian: Страстна́я пя́тница (ru) f (Strastnája pjátnica), Вели́кая пя́тница f (Velíkaja pjátnica)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: guhkesbearjadat

• Sardinian: Vennerì Santu m, Vennerì de Passione m, Vennerì de Cruce m, Vennerì de Morti m, Vennerì de Is Misterius m
• Scottish Gaelic: Dihaoine na Càisge m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Велики петак m

  Latin: Veliki petak (sh) m

• Slovak: Veľký piatok m
• Slovene: Veliki petek m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: śichy pětk m

  Upper Sorbian: wulki pjatk m, ćichi pjatk m

• Spanish: Viernes Santo (es) m
• Swahili: Ijumaa Kuu
• Swedish: långfredag (sv) c
• Tagalog: Biyernes Santo
• Tamil: புனிதவெள்ளி (ta) (puṉitaveḷḷi), பெரியவெள்ளிக்கிழமை (periyaveḷḷikkiḻamai)
• Tokelauan: Aho Maliu, Aho Falaile Lelei
• Turkish: Kutsal Cuma
• Ukrainian: Страсна́ п'я́тниця f (Strasná pʺjátnycja)
• Vietnamese: Thứ sáu Tuần Thánh
• Walloon: Bon vénrdi (wa)
• Welsh: Dydd Gwener y Groglith m, Gwener y Groglith m