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From Middle English, from Old English niht, neaht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognate with Scots nicht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”) , Danish nat (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Latin nox (“night”), Greek νύχτα (núchta, “night”).
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night (countable and uncountable; plural nights)
- (countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
- (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
- a night on the town
- (countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.
- We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- from noon till night
- (uncountable) Darkness.
- The cat disappeared into the night.
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period between sunset and sunrise
- Afrikaans: nag (af)
- Ainu: アンチカラ (ancikar)
- Albanian: natë (sq) f.
- American Sign Language: BentB@BackHand-PalmDown-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Contact
- Arabic: لَيلة (ar) (layla) f., لَيل (ar) (layl) (collective)
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: לליא (lilyā’) m.
- Syriac: ܠܠܝܐ (lilyā’) m.
- Armenian: գիշեր (hy) (gišer)
- Aromanian: noapte
- Avestan: 𐬑𐬴𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬥 (xšapan) f.
- Aymara: aruma (ay)
- Azeri: gecə (az)
- Baluchi: شپ (šap)
- Bashkir: төн (tön)
- Basque: gau (eu)
- Belarusian: нощ (be) (nošč) f.
- Breton: noz (br)
- Bulgarian: нощ (bg) (nošt) f.
- Burmese: ည (my) (nya.)
- Catalan: nit (ca) f.
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⴹ (iḍ)
- Chamicuro: chpolyaye
- Chamorro: puengi (ch)
- Chechen: буьйса (büysa)
- Cherokee: ᏒᎠᏱ (chr) (svayi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 夜晚 (zh) (yèwǎn), 夜 (zh) (yè)
- Min Nan: 暗暝 (àm-mê, àm-mî), 暗頭 (àm-thâu), 暝時 (mê-sî, mî-sî ), 暗時 (àm-sî)
- Chuvash: ҫӗр (śĕr)
- Coptic: ⲟⲩϣⲏ (oušē)
- Czech: noc (cs) f.
- Danish: nat (da)
- Dolgan: түүн (tüün)
- Dutch: nacht (nl) m.
- Egyptian: grḥ
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- Erzya: be
- Eshtehardi: شو (šow)
- Esperanto: nokto (eo)
- Estonian: öö (et)
- Ewe: zã n.
- Faroese: nátt (fo) f.
- Finnish: yö (fi)
- French: nuit (fr) f.
- Friulian: gnot
- Gagauz: gecä
- Georgian: ღამე (ka) (ḡame)
- German: Nacht (de) f.
- Middle High German: naht f.
- Gilbertese: bong
- Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts) f.
- Greek: νύχτα (el) (nýchta) f.
- Ancient: νύξ (nyks) f.
- Guaraní: please add this translation if you can
- Guernésiais: niet f.
- Gujarati: રાત (gu) (rāt) f., રાત્રી (gu) (rātrī) f.
- Haitian Creole: nwit
- Hawaiian: pō
- Hebrew: לילה (he) (lailah) m.
- Hindi: रात (hi) (rāt)
- Hungarian: éj (hu), éjszaka (hu), este (hu)
- Icelandic: nótt (is) f., (archaic) nátt (is) f., (skaldic) njóla (is) f.
- Ido: nokto (io)
- Irish: oíche (ga) f.
- Italian: notte (it) f.
- Japanese: 夜 (ja) (よる, yoru)
- Kalmyk: сө (sö)
- Karachay-Balkar: кече (keçe)
- Karakalpak: tu'n
- Kashubian: noc f.
- Kazakh: түн (kk) (tün)
- Khakas: тӱн (tün)
- Korean: 밤 (ko) (bam)
- Koryak: ныкинык (nəkinək)
- Kumyk: гече (geçe)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: şev (ku) f.
- Sorani: شهو (ku) (shaw)
- Kyrgyz: түн (ky) (tün)
- Lao: ຄືນ (lo) (khaan)
- Latgalian: nakts f.
- Latin: nox (la) f.
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- Latvian: nakts (lv) f.
- Lithuanian: naktis (lt) f.
- Livonian: īe
- Lower Sorbian: noc f.
- Luxembourgish: Nuecht (lb) f., Nuet (lb) f.
- Macedonian: ноќ (mk) (noḱ) f.
- Malay: malam (ms)
- Malayalam: രാത്രി (ml) (ratheri)
- Maltese: lejl (mt) m.
- Maori: po (mi)
- Marathi: रात्र (mr) (rātra)
- Middle French: nuyt
- Middle Persian: Middle Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: шөнө (mn) (šönö)
- Nahuatl: yohualli (nah)
- Navajo: tłʼééʼ
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Nogai: туьн (tün)
- Norwegian: natt (no) m.
- Nynorsk: natt (nn) m.
- Occitan: nuèch (oc) f., nuèit (oc) f.
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: нощь (noštĭ) f.
- Glagolitic: ⰐⰑⰛⰠ (noštĭ) f.
- Old English: niht (ang) f.
- Old French: nuit f., noit f.
- Old Norse: nátt f., njóla f.
- Old Persian: xšap
- Old Provençal: noit
- Persian: شب (fa) (shab)
- Pitjantjatjara: munga
- Polabian: nüc f.
- Polish: noc (pl) f.
- Portuguese: noite (pt) f.
- Quechua: tuta (qu)
- Rohingya: rait
- Romani: ratyi f.
- Romanian: noapte (ro) f.
- Romansch: notg (rm) f., not (rm) f.
- Russia Buryat: hүни (hüni)
- Russian: ночь (ru) (noč’) f.
- Samoan: please add this translation if you can
- Sanskrit: रात्रि (sa) (rātri), क्षप् (sa) (kṣáp) f.
- Scottish Gaelic: oidhche (gd) f.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ноћ (sh) f.
- Roman: noć (sh) f.
- Shor: тӱн (tün), қара (qara)
- Sicilian: notti (scn)
- Sindhi: رات (sd) (rāt)
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: noc (sk) f.
- Slovene: noč (sl) f.
- Southern Altai: тӱн (tün)
- Spanish: noche (es) f.
- Sundanese: peuting (su)
- Swahili: usiku (sw)
- Swedish: natt (sv) c.
- Tagalog: gabi (tl)
- Tahitian: please add this translation if you can
- Tajik: шаб (tg) (şab)
- Tamil: இரவு (ta) (iravu)
- Tatar: tön (tt), töngelek (tt)
- Telugu: రాత్రి (te) (rātri)
- Thai: กลางคืน (th) (glaang keun)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tok Pisin: nait (tpi)
- Tongan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: gece (tr)
- Turkmen: gije (tk)
- Tuvan: дүн (dün)
- Ukrainian: ніч (uk) (nič) f.
- Upper Sorbian: nóc f.
- Urdu: رات (ur) (rāt), شب (ur) (shab)
- Uzbek: tun (uz), kecha (uz)
- Veps: ö
- Vietnamese: đêm (vi), tối (vi), ban đêm (vi)
- Volapük: neit (vo)
- Warlpiri: munga
- Welsh: nos (cy) f.
- West Frisian: nacht (fy) c.
- Wolof: guddi (wo)
- Yakut: түүн (tüün)
- Yiddish: נאַכט (yi) (nakht) f.
- Zazaki: şewe f.
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evening or night spent at a particular activity
quality of sleep obtained during a night
darkness
- Armenian: աղջամուղջ (hy) (aġǰamuġǰ), գիշեր (hy) (gišer)
- Catalan: nit (ca) f., fosca (ca) f., obscuritat (ca) f.
- Czech: noc (cs) f.
- Danish: nat (da), mørke (da)
- Dutch: nachtelijke duisternis (nl) f.
- Finnish: pimeys (fi), pimeä (fi), yö (fi)
- French: nuit (fr) f., noirceur (fr) f., obscurité (fr) f.
- German: Nacht (de) f., Dunkelheit (de) f.
- Hungarian: sötétség (hu)
- Irish: dorchadas (ga) m.
- Japanese: 闇 (ja) (yami)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: şev (ku) f.
- Sorani: تاریکی (ku) (tAreekee)
- Latin: nox (la) f., tenebrae (la) f. pl., nocturna tempora (la) n. pl., caligo (la) f.
- Malay: malam (ms)
- Navajo: chahałheeł
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night!
- Short for good night
- Night all! Thanks for a great evening!
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night (third-person singular simple present nights, present participle nighting, simple past and past participle nighted)
- To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
- 2008, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes, page 284:
- "So I took seat and ate somewhat of my vivers, my horse also feeding upon his fodder, and we nighted in that spot and next morning I set out […] "
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night m. inv.
- nightclub
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night (plural nights)
- Alternative form of nighte.
