a room used for reading, writing, or academic work

to observe a religious fast; to abstain from food or certain activities before a ritual

Saitō (Japanese surname)

Ramadan (Islam)

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by Pu Songling

to abstain from eating meat and certain pungent vegetables, typically for religious purification or fasting

dining hall in a Buddhist temple

(Islam) Eid al-Fitr, the festival that marks the end of the fast of Ramadan

food given to Buddhist monks as alms

a duration or specific set of days designated for religious fasting or abstinence

to break a religious fast

to beg for food (of monks)

the specific Islamic observance of fasting during the ninth month of the lunar calendar

to beg for (vegetarian) food

religious offerings

to fast

Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)

the Christian liturgical season of forty days of fasting and penitence before Easter

festival of fasting (especially Eid al-Fitr)

Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism

the Christian period of forty days before Easter

to offer sacrifices to gods or ancestors while observing ritual abstinence

to fast or abstain from food, especially as a religious observance such as Lent