abat-jour

See also: abatjour and Abat-jour

English

Etymology

French abattre jour any contrivance or apparatus to admit light, or to throw it in a desired direction, as a lamp-shade

Noun

abat-jour (plural abat-jours)

1. A skylight, or any beveled aperture made in the wall of an apartment or in a roof, for the better admission of light from above.
2. A sloping, box-like structure, flaring upward and open at the top, attached to a window on the outside, to prevent those within from seeing objects below, or for the purpose of directing light downward into the window.

References

• Century Dictionary, volume 1, 1889, page 6

French

Etymology

From abat (“breaks down”) +‎ jour (“light”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.ʒuʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

1. lampshade
2. (dated) eyeshade
3. (architecture) skylight

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: abazhur
• → Arabic: أَبَاجُور (ʔabāžūr)
• → Hijazi Arabic: أَبَجورة (ʔabajōra)
• → Bulgarian: абажу́р (abažúr)
• → Czech: abažúr
• → English: abatjour
• → Estonian: abažuur
• → Greek: αμπαζούρ (ampazoúr)
  • → Ladino: abazur
• → Italian: abat-jour
• → Latvian: abažūrs
• → Lithuanian: abažūras
• → Persian: آباژور (âbâžur)
• → Polish: abażur
• → Portuguese: abajur
• → Romagnol: abat-jour
• → Romanian: abajur
• → Russian: абажу́р (abažúr)
  • → Azerbaijani: abajur
  • → Bashkir: абажур (abajur)
  • → Belarusian: абажу́р (abažúr)
  • → Chuvash: абажур (abažur)
  • → Eastern Mari: абажур (abažur)
  • → Georgian: აბაჟური (abažuri)
  • → Kazakh: абажур (abajur)
  • → Komi-Zyrian: абажур (abažur)
  • → Ossetian: абажур (abažur)
  • → Tatar: абажур (abajur)
  • → Tajik: абажур (abažur)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: аба̀жӯр

  Latin script: abàžūr

• → Ottoman Turkish: آباژور (abajur)
  • Turkish: abajur
• → Ukrainian: абажу́р (abažúr)

Further reading

• “abat-jour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French abat-jour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.baˈʒur/
• Rhymes: -ur

Noun

abat-jour m or (occasionally) f (invariable)

1. lampshade
2. a lamp with a lampshade, particularly a bedside lamp

Further reading

• abat-jour in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

1. (Jersey) blind

Romagnol

Etymology

From French abat-jour.

Pronunciation

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ɐbɐˈðuːɾ]

Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jour)

1. abat-jour

References

• Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 1