大斋

to fast / to abstain from food

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

old variant of 齋|斋[zhai1]

to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc / vegetarian diet / study room / building / to give alms (to a monk)

Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)

great fast / Christian lent