"churching" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: churchings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} churching (countable and uncountable, plural churchings)
  1. (Christianity) The ceremonial blessing of a woman who has given birth. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Christianity Translations (Translations): kirking (Scots), kyrktagning [common-gender] (Swedish), уво́дини (uvódyny) [plural] (Ukrainian), ви́від (vývid) (alt: для породі́лі) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-churching-en-noun-Wis6xHou Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Scots translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Scots translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 89 11 Topics: Christianity

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} churching
  1. present participle and gerund of church Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: church
    Sense id: en-churching-en-verb-nWuj-nlf

Noun [Polish]

IPA: /ˈt͡ʂɛr.t͡ʂiŋk/
Rhymes: -ɛrt͡ʂiŋk Etymology: From English church + -ing, modelled on clubbing. Etymology templates: {{der|pl|en|church}} English church, {{af|pl|-ing}} -ing Head templates: {{pl-noun|m-in}} churching m inan Inflection templates: {{pl-decl-noun-m-in}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], churching [nominative, singular], churchingi [nominative, plural], churchingu [genitive, singular], churchingów [genitive, plural], churchingowi [dative, singular], churchingom [dative, plural], churching [accusative, singular], churchingi [accusative, plural], churchingiem [instrumental, singular], churchingami [instrumental, plural], churchingu [locative, singular], churchingach [locative, plural], churchingu [singular, vocative], churchingi [plural, vocative]
  1. (neologism, often humorous) selection by the faithful of a church other than their parish church every time they want to attend Mass Tags: humorous, inanimate, masculine, neologism, often

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.