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Etymology [edit]
From Old English candel, from Latin candēla (“a candle”), from candeō (“I am white, bright, shining”); see candid.
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candle (plural candles)
- A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
- The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
- (obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
- (forestry) a fast growing, light colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer highlighted to one’s view.
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a light source
- Afrikaans: kers (af)
- Albanian: qiri (sq) m
- Amharic: ቫማ
- Arabic: شمعة (ar) (šámʿa) f
- Armenian: մոմ (hy) (mom)
- Aromanian: luminare (rup) f, lunjinare (rup) f, lumbardã (rup), ayiucheri (rup)
- Azeri: şam (az), mum (az)
- Basque: kandela (eu)
- Belarusian: свечка (be) (svéčka) f
- Bengali: মোমবাতি (bn) (mombāti)
- Bulgarian: свещ (bg) (svešt) f
- Catalan: espelma (ca) f, candela (ca) f
- Chamicuro: kajchi
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蠟燭 (cmn), 蜡烛 (cmn) (làzhú), 蠟 (cmn), 蜡 (cmn) (là), 燭 (cmn), 烛 (cmn) (zhú)
- Czech: svíce (cs) f, svíčka (cs) f
- Danish: lys (da), stearinlys (da)
- Dutch: kaars (nl) f
- Esperanto: kandelo (eo)
- Estonian: küünal (et)
- Finnish: kynttilä (fi)
- French: bougie (fr) f, chandelle (fr) f
- Galician: candea (gl) f
- Georgian: სანთელი (ka) (sant‘eli)
- German: Kerze (de) f
- Greek: κερί (el) (kerí) n
- Hausa: kyándìr̃
- Hebrew: נר (he) (ner) m
- Hindi: मोमबत्ती (hi) (mōmabattī)
- Hungarian: gyertya (hu)
- Icelandic: kerti (is) n
- Ido: bujio (io)
- Indonesian: lilin (id)
- Irish: coinneal (ga) f
- Isthmus Zapotec: guiʼriʼ
- Italian: candela (it) f
- Japanese: 蝋燭 (ja) (ろうそく, rōsoku)
- Kazakh: шам (kk) (şam), май шам (kk) (may şam)
- Ket: dikkit
- Korean: 초 (ko) (cho)
- Kyrgyz: шам (ky) (şam)
- Lao: ທຽນ (lo) (thīan)
- Latin: candela (la) f
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- Latvian: svece (lv)
- Lithuanian: žvakė (lt)
- Luxembourgish: Käerz (lb) f, Bougie (lb) f
- Macedonian: свеќа (mk) (svéḱa) f
- Malagasy: labozia (mg)
- Malay: lilin (ms)
- Maltese: xemgħa (mt) f
- Manx: cainle (gv) f
- Mongolian: лаа (mn) (laa)
- Norwegian: lys (no)
- Old English: candel (ang) f
- Persian: شمع (fa) (šam')
- Polabian: swecja f
- Polish: świeca (pl) f, świeczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: vela (pt) f
- Romanian: lumânare (ro)
- Romansch: chandaila (rm) f
- Russian: свеча (ru) (svečá) f, свечка (ru) (svéčka) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: свећа (sh) f, свијећа (sh) f, лојаница (sh) f (tallow candle), воштаница (sh) f (wax candle)
- Roman: sveća (sh) f, svijeća (sh) f, lojanica (sh) f (tallow candle), voštanica (sh) f (wax candle)
- Slovak: svieca (sk) f, sviečka (sk) f
- Slovene: sveča (sl) f
- Somali: shumac
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: swěčka (hsb) f
- Spanish: vela (es) f, candela (es) f, cirio (es) m
- Swahili: mshumaa, mishumaa pl (noun 3/4)
- Swedish: ljus (sv) n
- Tagalog: kandila (tl)
- Tajik: шамъ (tg) (šam')
- Tatar: шәм (tt) (şäm)
- Thai: เทียน (th) (tian)
- Turkish: mum (tr)
- Turkmen: şem (tk)
- Ukrainian: свічка (uk) (svíčka) f
- Uzbek: shamchiroq (uz), sham (uz)
- Vietnamese: cây nến (vi), đèn cầy (vi)
- Volapük: kandel (vo)
- Welsh: cannwyll (cy) f
- Yiddish: ליכט (yi) (likht) n and f
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candle (third-person singular simple present candles, present participle candling, simple past and past participle candled)
- (embryology) To observe the growth of an embryo inside an egg, using a bright light source.
- (pottery) To dry greenware prior to beginning of the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
- To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light souce and the eye.
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