# Diwali

Pronunciation: say "di-WAH-lee" US /dɪˈwɑli/, UK /dɪˈwɑːli/

## Proper noun

1. The festival of lights, celebrated over several days each year in October or November with lamps and fireworks.
   - Simple: A yearly festival of lights, held over several days in October and November.
   - _Families clean their homes and light rows of lamps to welcome Diwali._
   - _The city's Diwali celebrations filled the night sky with fireworks._

## Origin

Borrowed from Hindi दिवाली (divālī), from Sanskrit दीपावलि (dīpāvali), literally "row of lights," from दीप (dīpa, "light") plus आवलि (āvali, "series, line, row"). It is a doublet of Deepavali.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/diwali (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).