Pâques

From Old French pasques, pasches, from Latin pascha.

Pâques f (plural Pâques)

1. Easter

Inherited from Middle French Pasques, from Old French pasques, pasches, from Latin pascha (influenced by pascuum, pascua (“grazing”)), from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic [script needed] (pasḥa), from Hebrew פסחא (pasḥa).

• IPA^(key): /pak/ ~ /pɑk/

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Pâques m or f pl (plural only)

1. Easter

   Joyeuses Pâques ! ― Happy Easter!

Treated as masculine unless further qualified with an adjective.

• lapin de Pâques
• lundi de Pâques (“Easter Monday”)
• dimanche de Pâques (“Easter Sunday”)
• œuf de Pâques (“Easter egg”)

• Pâque (“Passover”)
• Pâque russe (“Russian Easter”)

• Haitian Creole: Pak
• → Lingala: Páke
• → Persian: عید پاک ('eyd-e pâk)

• vendredi saint

• “Pâques”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Paak (Sark)

From Old French pasques, pasches, from Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha).

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  (Jersey)

Pâques f pl

1. (continental, Jersey) Easter
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 532:

     Pâques Martine—guerre, peste, ou famine.

     Easter in March forebodes war, pestilence, or famine.

• Jouaiyeux Pâques