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English translation: ween

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English term or phrase:ween
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02:05 Apr 15, 2020
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English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: ween
I still feel this is not the right way to do the weens on the Hallow Eve.
We should've hallowed the weens properly.

Is "Ween" here means celebrating the day?

Thanks in advance,
S.J
Canada
Local time: 16:21
ween
Explanation:
This is a punning use of English, a joke, taking a proper word (Halloween) and breaking it down into another proper word (hallow = bless) and a nonsense word (ween). Similarly, if they'd been talking about Samain, the pagan name for the feast, they could have said something like "this is Sam's ain day". I think you'd need to find a play on words in whatever language you're translating into, to get an equivalent effect for it: a direct translation won't work.
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Charlotte Fleming
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:21
Grading comment
Thank you.
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +2ween
Charlotte Fleming
Summary of reference entries provided
French, encore en arapi
Tomasso

Discussion entries: 4





  

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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
ween


Explanation:
This is a punning use of English, a joke, taking a proper word (Halloween) and breaking it down into another proper word (hallow = bless) and a nonsense word (ween). Similarly, if they'd been talking about Samain, the pagan name for the feast, they could have said something like "this is Sam's ain day". I think you'd need to find a play on words in whatever language you're translating into, to get an equivalent effect for it: a direct translation won't work.

Charlotte Fleming
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:21
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: This is possibly untranslatable.
4 hrs
agree  JaneTranslates: Agree. It might help the asker to know that while "ween" is a nonsense word, the two parts of Halloween are actually hallow and e'en, "e'en" being a contraction of "even" or "eve"--that is, the evening before All Hallow's Day.
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Reference comments


2 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: French, encore en arapi

Reference information:
Maybe look at ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
a plupart des historiens considèrent la fête folklorique païenne traditionnelle d'Halloween comme un héritage de Samain, une fête qui était célébrée au début de l'automne par les celtes et constituait pour eux une sorte de fête du nouvel an7,8,9,10
Encore , https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/هالووين

yom halwyn

Maybe it will not work, do not have Arabic keyboard.

Tomasso
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: yes, it's Christianised SamHain
9 hrs
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