Phrases in season greeting
od paksu, 22. december 2009
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paksu (Prikaži profil) 22. december 2009 12:06:32
I wish to know the season greeting phrases in Esperanto as the seasons are round at the corner.
Please list all the seasons, if possible from the west to the east.
Dankon karaj
Gxis la
ceigered (Prikaži profil) 22. december 2009 12:40:02
Havu belan novjaron. (To be honest, anything made up like this phrase could work as long as you're letting the person know you want them to have a good holiday).
paksu (Prikaži profil) 22. december 2009 12:53:19
ceigered:Feliĉan Kristnaskon (kaj novjaron).What i meant how to greet the followings:
Havu belan novjaron. (To be honest, anything made up like this phrase could work as long as you're letting the person know you want them to have a good holiday).
Happy New Year
Merry Christmas
Happy Lunar New Year
Happy birthday
paksu (Prikaži profil) 24. december 2009 05:27:56
no one can help ?
anyway Merry Christmas and a very good New Year to all in the lernu.net
Oŝo-Jabe (Prikaži profil) 24. december 2009 05:54:09
paksu:ceigered:Feliĉan Kristnaskon (kaj novjaron).What i meant how to greet the followings:
Havu belan novjaron. (To be honest, anything made up like this phrase could work as long as you're letting the person know you want them to have a good holiday).
Happy New Year - Feliĉan Novjaron
Merry Christmas - Feliĉan Kristnaskon
Happy Lunar New Year - Feliĉan Lunan Novjaron
Happy birthday - Feliĉan Naskiĝtagon
ceigered (Prikaži profil) 24. december 2009 07:44:43
paksu (Prikaži profil) 30. december 2009 11:29:34
ceigered:Ah sorry Paksu, I misunderstood - see Osxo-Jabe's answers which are 110% correctDoes not matter, i need more of this kind like
Happy Mooncake festival/happy lantern festival (chinese)
happy dumplings festival ( chinese)
happy diwadi (hindu)
happy aidil fitri (muslim)
ceigered (Prikaži profil) 30. december 2009 13:05:20
paksu:I am not familiar with many of the festivals, however I can guessceigered:Ah sorry Paksu, I misunderstood - see Oŝo-Jabe's answers which are 110% correctDoes not matter, i need more of this kind like
Happy Mooncake festival/happy lantern festival (chinese)
happy dumplings festival ( chinese)
happy diwadi (hindu)
happy aidil fitri (muslim)
:The Mooncake Festival is the same as the Mid-Autumn/Zhongqiu (中秋) festival, correct? (I'm just looking at wikipedia). If that's is correct then maybe:
- Feliĉan Lunan Feston, Feliĉan Aŭtunmezan Feston (or "Aŭtunmezfeston"
- there's also the option of "Feliĉan Ĝungĉiuon" but that's a bad transliteration of the original chinese and might not work as well.
Unfortunately I can't find "Dumplings festival" (all that come up are World of Warcraft results
), but "Happy Diwali" (is that what you meant?) should be "Feliĉan Divalion/Diŭalion", and I'm not sure how to translate Aidil Fitri (Eid ul Fitr). 
Vilinilo (Prikaži profil) 31. december 2009 18:13:16
erinja (Prikaži profil) 03. januar 2010 22:41:05
Paksu, holiday greetings are always worded as "Feliĉan [name of festival]-n". So all you need to do is learn Esperanto names of the festivals, and you will easily be able to compose holiday greetings!
Diwali is "Divali" in Esperanto. For the purposes of a holiday greeting, I would add the -o and say "Feliĉan Divalion". W-sounds are always translated as V in Esperanto, so it definitely isn't "diŭali" (also, the name of the festival comes from original Sanskrit name "dipavali", so even the original name has a V! And in some Indian languages, they call it dipavali anyway)
Eid ul-Fitr is the "fastofina festo" in Esperanto, so you'd say "Feliĉan Fastofinan Feston"
Ramadan can be "fastomonato", but I frequently see it as "ramadano". I think either would be considered correct.
Eid ul-Adha would be "oferofesto".
The Christian holiday of Easter is "Pasko".
I can give a list of Jewish holidays but perhaps that will not be very useful in Malaysia. Unfortunately there is not an easy "international list of all holidays" list that I'm aware of, so perhaps you could tell us some more names of holidays that you'd like to have translations for!