Noun
resurrection (countable and uncountable, plural resurrections)
- The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
- (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) The general resurrection.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 20:5–6:But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
- (figuratively) A miraculous comeback or revival (e.g., of a TV series); recovery from a dire predicament.
- (archaic) The act of bodysnatching (illicitly exhuming a cadaver).
Translations
act of arising from the dead
- Armenian: հարություն (hy) (harutʻyun)
- Belarusian: уваскрашэ́нне n (uvaskrašénnje)
- Bulgarian: възкресе́ние (bg) n (vǎzkresénie)
- Carpathian Rusyn: воскресї́ня n (voskresjínja)
- Catalan: resurrecció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 復活/复活 (fuk6 wut6, fau6 wut6)
- Hakka: 復活/复活 (fu̍k-fa̍t)
- Hokkien: 閣活/阁活 (koh-oa̍h)
- Mandarin: 復活/复活 (zh) (fùhuó)
- Crimean Tatar: tirilüv, tirilme
- Czech: vzkříšení (cs) n
- Dutch: herrijzenis (nl) f, wederopstanding (nl) f, opstanding (nl) f, verrijzenis (nl) f
- Esperanto: reviviĝo, resurekto
- Estonian: ülestõusmine
- Finnish: ylösnousemus (fi)
- French: résurrection (fr) f
- Galician: resurrección (gl) f
- Georgian: გაცოცხლება (gacocxleba)
- German: Wiederauferstehung (de) f, Auferstehung (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃 f (usstass)
- Greek: ανάσταση (el) f (anástasi)
- Ancient: ἀνάστασις f (anástasis)
- Hebrew: תחיית המתים \ תְּחִיַּת הַמֵּתִים (he) f (tkhiyát hametím)
- Hindi: पुनरुज्जीवन m (punrujjīvan), मृतोत्थान (mŕtotthān), नुशूर (hi) (nuśūr)
- Hungarian: feltámadás (hu)
- Icelandic: upprisa f
- Irish: aiséirí m
- Old Irish: esséirge n
- Italian: resurrezione (it) f
- Japanese: 復活 (ja) (ふっかつ, fukkatsu)
- Korean: 부활(復活) (ko) (buhwal)
- Latin: resurrectiō f
- Latvian: augšāmcelšanās
- Lithuanian: prisikėlimas
- Low German:
- German Low German: Uperstahung f
- Macedonian: воскресение n (voskresenie)
- Ngazidja Comorian: mbâthwi
- Norman: rêsurrection f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oppstandelse m
- Nynorsk: oppstandelse m
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: въскрьсеньѥ n (vŭskrĭsenĭje), въскрѣшеньѥ n (vŭskrěšenĭje)
- Old English: ǣrist f
- Persian: رستاخیز (fa) (rastâxiz)
- Polish: zmartwychwstanie (pl) n, wskrzeszenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: ressurreição (pt) f
- Romanian: reînviere (ro) f, înviere (ro) f
- Russian: воскресе́ние (ru) n (voskresénije), воскреше́ние (ru) n (voskrešénije)
- Sanskrit: मृतोत्थान (mṛtotthāna), पुनरुज्जीवन (punarujjīvana)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ускрсење n, ускрсну́ће n
- Roman: uskrsenje n, uskrsnúće n
- Slovak: vzkriesenie n
- Slovene: vstajenje (sl) n (od mrtvih)
- Spanish: resurrección (es) f
- Swahili: ufufuo
- Swedish: uppståndelse (sv) c
- Tagalog: muling-pagkabuhay
- Turkish: diriliş (tr)
- Ukrainian: воскреше́ння n (voskrešénnja)
- Urdu: نُشُور m (nuśūr), اِحْیا f (iḥya)
- Volapük: dönulifükam,
- Walloon: ravicaedje (wa) m, rezureccion (wa) f
- Welsh: atgyfodiad m
- Yiddish: תּחיית המתים (tkhiyes hameysem)
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