communion wafer

English

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Noun

communion wafer (plural communion wafers)

1. (Christianity) The sacramental bread used in the Eucharist; the host.

Translations

sacramental bread — see also host

• Arabic: بُرْشام (ar) (buršām)
• Bulgarian: нафора f (nafora)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖體 / 圣体 (zh) (shèngtǐ), 聖餐餅 / 圣餐饼 (shèngcānbǐng)

• Czech: hostie (cs) f
• Dalmatian: bluta
• Danish: oblat c
• Dutch: hostie (nl) f
• Finnish: ehtoollisleipä (fi), öylätti (fi)
• French: hostie (fr) f, oublie (fr) f
• German: Hostie (de) f
• Greek: άγιος άρτος m (ágios ártos), όστια (el) f (óstia)
• Hungarian: ostya (hu)
• Icelandic: obláta f
• Indonesian: hosti (id)
• Irish: abhlann (ga) f

  Old Irish: obla(e) f

• Italian: ostia (it) f
• Latin: hostia f
• Polish: hostia (pl) f, opłatek (pl) m
• Portuguese: hóstia (pt) f
• Romanian: anaforă (ro) f
• Russian: обла́тка (ru) f (oblátka)
• Serbo-Croatian: hostija (sh) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: hostija f

  Upper Sorbian: hostija f, (Catholic) woblatko n, (Protestant) wobłatka f

• Spanish: hostia (es) f
• Swedish: oblat (sv) c
• Welsh: afrllad f