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|มหาสงกรานต์ ([[Thai language|Thai]])
|သင်္ကြန် ([[Burmese language|Burmese]])
|មហាសង្ក្រាន្ត ([[Khmer language|Khmer]])
|ປີໃໝ່ ([[Lao language|Lao]])
|泼水节 ([[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]])
|संक्रांति ([[Sanskrit]])
|අලුත් අවුරුද්ද ([[Sinhalese language|Sinhalese]])
|มหาสงกรานต์មហាសង្ក្រាន្ត ([[ThaiKhmer language|ThaiKhmer]])
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| nickname = Southeast Asian New Year
| observedby = [[BurmeseThai people|BurmeseThais]], [[CambodianBurmese people|CambodianBurmese]], [[Dai people|Dais]], [[Lao people|Laotians]], [[Thai people|Thais]], [[Bangladeshis]] (CHT), [[Sinhalese people|Sri Lankans]], [[Tai Dam people|Tai Dam]], [[Cambodian people|Cambodian]] and certain ethnic groups of [[northeast India]]
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'''Songkran''' is the water-splashing festival celebration in the traditional [[new year]] for the [[Buddhist calendar]] widely celebrated across South and Southeast Asia in [[BangladeshThailand]], [[CambodiaBangladesh]], [[Laos]], [[Myanmar]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[ThailandCambodia]], parts of [[northeast India]], parts of [[Vietnam]], and [[Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture|Xishuangbanna]], [[China]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opentimes.cn/Abstract/1223.html|title=制造传统 关于傣族泼水节及其相关新年话语的研究 |date=February 2010|accessdate=17 January 2017|publisher=Open Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/The%20Buddhist%20World%20of%20Southeast%20Asia_Swearer.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316090358/http://ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/The%20Buddhist%20World%20of%20Southeast%20Asia_Swearer.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 16, 2015|title=Donald K. Swearer The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia|website=Ahandfulofleaves.org|accessdate=7 January 2019}}</ref> begins on 13 April of the year.
 
== Etymology ==
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* The Siam Society Under Royal Patronage. "No. IV. The "Toa Songkrant". ตัวสงกรานต์", ''The Journal of the Siam Society'', Vol. 10., 1935. p. 63. "about the time of the Songkrant, that is March and April, for Songkrant in Siam falls on the 13th April."</ref> is a contractive form of Sangkran (sim kranti), which itself is a [[loanword]]<ref>Kingkham, W. (2001). ''Phasa Thai thin'' [Thai dialects, ภาษาไทยถิ่น (in Thai)]. Bangkok: Kasetsart University. 281 pp. p. 23. {{ISBN|978-974-9-93471-5}}</ref><ref>Buapanngam, S. "''Influences of Pali-Sanskrit loanwords on Thai''", [https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/huru/article/view/64283 Ramkhamhaeng University Journal, 35(1)(January-June 2016)]:105–122.</ref> from [[Sanskrit]] ''{{IAST|[[saṅkrānti]]}}'' (or, more specifically, ''{{IAST|meṣha saṅkrānti}}'')<ref>Sir W. M. Jones, Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India). (1869). "The Adjustment of the Hindu Calendar; by Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha.", ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. XXXVII (Part II.–Physical Sciense, No. IV.–1868)''. Kolkata, India: Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 188.
* SEWELL, R., Gustav Schram, R., and Sankara Balkrishna Dikshit. (1896). "Years and Cycles", ''The Indian Calendar with Tables for the Conversion of Hindu and Muhammadan into A.D. Dates, and vice versa''. LONDON: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd. 169 pp. pp. 9, 25–31.
* Swamikannu Pillai, Dewan Bahadur L. D. (Lewis Dominic). (1911). ''Indian Chronology (solar, Lunar and Planetary): A Practical Guide to the Interpretation and Verification of Tithis, Nakshatras, Horoscopes and other Indian Time-records. B.C. 1 TO A.D. 2000''. NJ: Grant & Co., Madras. 347 pp. p. 10.</ref> or [[Pali]] ''[[Saṅkhāra]]''.<ref>Yavaprapas, S., Ministry of Culture (Thailand). (2004). ''Songkran Festival''. (2rd Ed.). Bangkok: Ministry of Culture (Thailand). 95 pp. pp. 20-22. {{ISBN|978-974-7-10351-9}}. "Songkran is "to progress". Sanskrit in origin, the word can also be taken to mean that "to set up" The original word "Sankranti" in Sanskrit or "Sankhara" in Pali."</ref> The original meaning of ''saṅkrānti'', marked of the sun, transits the constellation of [[Aries (astrology)|Aries]], the first [[astrological sign]] in the [[Zodiac]], as reckoned by [[sidereal astrology]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chiangmai-chiangrai.com/origins_of_songkran.html |title=The Origins of the Songkran Festival |access-date=2017-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161208032407/http://www.chiangmai-chiangrai.com/origins_of_songkran.html |archive-date=2016-12-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is related to the equivalent [[Hindu calendar]]-based New Year festivals in most parts of South Asia, which are collectively referred to as ''[[Mesha Sankranti]]''.
 
[[Oxford English Dictionary]] defines ''Songkran'' as "The festival of the Thai New Year, characterized by various observances involving the pouring or splashing of water (1727–present.)".<ref>[https://www.oed.com/dictionary/songkran_n?tab=meaning_and_use#190072726 "Songkran"]. (noun) in Oxford English Dictionary (Online). Retrieved on 17 April 2024.</ref> Term has also entered other languages, such as {{lang-fr|La fête du Songkran}},<ref>DE FELS, JACQUELINE. (1993). Promotion de la littérature en Thaïlande vers les prix littéraires (1882-1982). Paris: INALCO. p. 620.</ref> {{lang-nl|Sonkraen}},<ref>Erdmann H. J. and Kaempfer E. (1977). Southeast Asia and the Germans. Tübingen, Basel: Erdmann. p. 21. {{ISBN|978-377-1-10287-6}}</ref> {{lang-ja|ソンクラーン}},<ref>Aoyagi, Machiko. (2003). 「''『文化交流学を拓く』 (Bunka Koryugaku o Hiraku)」''. Kyoto-shi: Sekai Shisousha. p. 80. {{ISBN|978-479-0-70982-4}}</ref> {{lang-zh|宋干节}}<ref>He, Tian, Fang Ye, Zhou and Institute of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. (2016). 「''『第一章、 概 览』、 泰国 (Thailand)」''. Beijing: Social Sciences Literature Press Liguozhi Publishing Center. p. 51. {{ISBN|978-750-9-78859-2}}</ref> and {{lang-ko|송끄란}}.<ref>Dodd S.J. and Techaikovskaya. (2015). ''「세계의 가장 놀라운 축제들」 The World's Most Astonshing Festivals''. (Translated by Kim Ji-eun). Paju, South Korea: Darakwon. p. 82. {{ISBN|978-892-7-75051-2}}</ref>
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[[Category:Religious festivals in Cambodia]]
[[Category:April observances]]
[[Category:Water-splashing festivals]]
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