pyhä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- blessed adj Favoured or protected, especially by God or good fortune.
- divine adj Relating to or coming from God or a god.
- hallow verb To treat as sacred; to make or declare holy.
- holy adj Regarded as sacred or dedicated to a god or religious purpose.
- sacred adj Regarded as holy and worthy of deep religious reverence.
- saint noun A person formally recognized by a church, especially the Catholic Church, as holy after death, often due to a virtuous life or miracles.
- solemn adjective Deeply serious, dignified, and free of humor, especially in formal or ceremonial settings.
- spiritual adjective Relating to the soul, religion, or matters beyond the physical world.
Senses
pyhä is used for these senses in English:
- Saint A title given to a saint, often prefixed to the person's name.
- Sunday-go-to-meeting (usually, of, _, clothes) Suitable for wearing to church; one's best.
- blessed Worthy of worship; holy.
- divine Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- dominical (historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient system of dominical letters, used for determining Sundays (particularly Easter Sunday) in any given year.
- hallow (obsolete, outside, set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
- holy (archaic) A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.
- sacred Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
divine — full definition
- adj Relating to or coming from God or a god.
- adj Wonderful or delightful, in an exaggerated, almost heavenly sense.
- verb To work something out through guesswork, intuition, or insight rather than being told directly.