Festivals & Events

1. Eyenga

   Feast, festival (also Sunday)

   Usage

   Use it when talking about a feast day or event.

   Grammar Note

   The dictionary gives feast and Sunday. In ln.wikipedia mokolo ya eyenga is Sunday, and eyenga also names holidays such as Eyenga ya Mbotama.

2. Eyenga ya Mbotama ezali 25 desembe

   Christmas is on 25 December

   Usage

   Use it when talking about a feast day or event.

   Grammar Note

   Composed from dictionary- and corpus-verified words by regular grammar. Eyenga ya Mbotama (Christmas, also Noele) is an ln.wikipedia headword; desembe is the month name found in ln.wikipedia dates such as 24 desembe 2010.

3. Eyenga ya Pasika

   Easter

   Usage

   Use it when talking about a feast day or event.

   Grammar Note

   An ln.wikipedia date table is headed Eyenga ya Pasika. Pasika is the word for Passover and Easter, found over 100 times in the Bible.

4. Eyenga ya Pantekote

   Pentecost

   Usage

   Use it when talking about a feast day or event.

   Grammar Note

   The ln.wikipedia article Pantekote describes the feast fifty days after Easter, and its date table is headed Eyenga ya Pantekote.

5. Mokolo ya lipanda ezali 30 yuni

   Independence Day is on 30 June (DR Congo)

   Usage

   Use it when talking about a feast day or event.

   Grammar Note

   Composed from dictionary- and corpus-verified words by regular grammar. Lipanda is independence (ln.wikipedia glosses it with the French indépendance) and yuni is June as found in ln.wikipedia dates. Independence came on 30 June 1960.

6. FESPAM

   FESPAM (the Pan-African Music Festival held in Brazzaville)

   Usage

   Use it when talking about a feast day or event.

   Grammar Note

   The acronym of the French Festival panafricain de musique, used unchanged in Lingala. It began in 1996 and is held every two years, mainly in Brazzaville.

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