en påsk

påsk in a sentence

• Annandag påsk
  Easter Monday
• fira påsk
  celebrate Easter
• påskfirande
  Easter celebration
• På påsken brukar man måla och äta ägg
  On Easter, you usually paint and eat eggs
• Julen varar än till påska
  Christmas lasts [all the way] until Easter [from a song – "påska" is an archaic genitive controlled by the preposition till]
• Sex dagar före påsk kom nu Jesus till Betania, där Lasarus bodde, han som av Jesus hade blivit uppväckt från de döda
  Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead

Words built with påsk

• påskdag Easter Day
• påskafton Easter Saturday
• påsklov Easter holiday
• påskris Easter decoration of a sprig of twigs decked with coloured feathers

Questions

Origin

From Old Norse páskar, from Medieval Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פסחא (pasḥa), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pesaḥ).

Nearby common words

påsk is number 7,340 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 7,336gentjänst a return favor (favor in return for another favor)
• 7,337kanna pot, jug
• 7,338lasagne lasagne
• 7,339pilgrim pilgrim
• 7,341relik relic
• 7,342synvinkel a point of view, a perspective
• 7,343lockande attractive, tempting
• 7,344kläda to dress; now commonly contracted to klä (which see)