Noun
holy water (usually uncountable, plural holy waters)
- (Christianity) In certain Christian churches, water that has been sanctified by a priest or bishop for the purpose of baptism or for the blessing of persons, places, or things.
1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper:None comes to this holy feast but they whose sins are cleansed in baptism, who are sanctified in those holy waters of regeneration, who have obedient souls,
1889, Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, page 307:... with our signs of the cross and holy waters, our crucifixes and prayers to the saints, our scapulars and medals, our so humiliating auricular confession
1979, “The Catechesis of Cyril of Jerusalem”, in Lucien Deiss, Matthew J. O'Connell, transl., Springtime of the Liturgy:In a parallel way, when you came up from the font and its holy waters, you received chrismation and the mark with which Christ was chrismated.
Translations
water, sanctified
- Albanian: uji i bekuar, ajazmë (sq) f
- Arabic: مَاء مُقَدَّس m (māʔ muqaddas)
- Armenian: օրհնված ջուր (ōrhnvac ǰur)
- Basque: ur bedeinkatu
- Breton: dour benniget (br) m
- Bulgarian: светена вода f (svetena voda)
- Catalan: aigua beneita, aigua beneïda
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 聖水/圣水 (zh) (shèngshuǐ)
- Classical Nahuatl: tlateōchīhualātl
- Czech: svěcená voda (cs) f
- Danish: vievand (da) n
- Dutch: wijwater (nl) n
- Esperanto: sankta akvo
- Estonian: püha vesi
- Finnish: vihkivesi (fi)
- French: eau bénite (fr) f
- Georgian: წმინდა წყალი (c̣minda c̣q̇ali), ნაკურთხი წყალი (naḳurtxi c̣q̇ali)
- German: Weihwasser (de) n
- Greek: αγίασμα (el) n (agíasma)
- Guaraní: ykarai, y karai
- Hebrew: מים קדושים m pl (máyim kdoyshim)
- Hindi: पवित्र जल (pavitra jal)
- Hungarian: szenteltvíz (hu)
- Icelandic: vígt vatn n
- Indonesian: air suci (id)
- Irish: uisce coisricthe
- Italian: acqua benedetta, acqua santa
- Japanese: 聖水 (ja) (せいすい, seisui)
- Korean: 성수(聖水) (seongsu)
- Latin: (Christianity) aqua sancta f, (Ancient Roman religion) aqua lustralis f
- Latvian: svētais ūdens m
- Lithuanian: šventas vanduo m
- Luxembourgish: Wäiwaasser n
- Macedonian: крстена вода f (krstena voda), светена вода f (svetena voda), света вода f (sveta voda), осветена вода f (osvetena voda)
- Malay: air suci
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vievann n
- Old Tupi: 'ykaraíba
- Persian: آب مقدس, زور (fa) sg (zowr) (in Zoroasterian)
- Polish: woda święcona (pl) f
- Portuguese: água benta (pt) f
- Romanian: agheasmă (ro) f, apă sfințită f
- Russian: свята́я вода́ (ru) f (svjatája vodá)
- Scottish Gaelic: uisge-coisrigte m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: света вода f, света водица f
- Roman: sveta voda (sh) f, sveta vodica (sh) f
- Slovak: svätená voda f
- Slovene: sveto vodo f
- Spanish: agua bendita (es) f
- Swedish: vigvatten (sv) n
- Tagalog: agwa-bendita
- Thai: น้ำมนตร์ (náam-mon)
- Turkish: kutsal su
- Ukrainian: агіа́сма f (ahiásma), свячена вода f (svjačena voda), свята вода f (svjata voda)
- Vietnamese: nước thánh
- Welsh: dŵr swyn m
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