Twelve Days of Christmas

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The Twelve Days of Christmas

The Twelve days of Christmas

The season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany; Christmas season, Christmas time, Christmastide, Twelvetide. The Christmas season traditionally ended with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6.
An 18th-century English Christmas carol which describes a series of successively grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

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the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany

Arabic: اِثْنَا عَشَر يَوْمَا مِن عِيد الْمِيلَاد (iṯnā ʕašar yawmā min ʕīd al-mīlād)
Belarusian: свя́ткі f pl (svjátki), каля́дныя свя́ткі f pl (kaljádnyja svjátki)
Bengali: বড়দিনের বারো দিন (boṛdiner barō din)
Finnish: joulunaika (fi)
French: Douze jours de Noël
Galician: doce días de Nadal
German: zwölf Weihnachtstage pl, die Zwölften pl
Greek: Δώδεκα ημέρες των Χριστουγέννων (Dódeka iméres ton Christougénnon)
Hindi: क्रिस्मस के बारह दिन (krismas ke bārah din)
Italian: Dodici giorni di Natale
Japanese: クリスマスの十二日間
Komi-Zyrian: вежадыр (vežadyr)
Korean: 크리스마스의 열두 일 (keuriseumaseuui yeoldu il)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: свӓткӓ (svätkä)

Western Mari: свӓткӓ (svätkä)
Portuguese: Doze dias de natal
Russian: свя́тки (ru) f pl (svjátki), Рожде́ственские свя́тки f pl (Roždéstvenskije svjátki), Двена́дцать дней Рождества́ pl (Dvenádcatʹ dnej Roždestvá), коля́ды (ru) f pl (koljády) (regional), святы́е дни m pl (svjatýje dni), святы́е m pl (svjatýje)
Spanish: Doce días de Natal
Tibetan: བཅུ་གཉིས་ཉི་མའི་ཡེ་ཤུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར། (bcu gnyis nyi ma'i ye shu'i 'khrungs skar)
Udmurt: вожодыр (vožodyr)
Ukrainian: свя́тки f pl (svjátky)

Twelve Days of Christmas

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