Chinese lantern

English

A Chinese lantern (sense 1)

Etymology

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Noun

Chinese lantern (plural Chinese lanterns)

2. A paper lantern in bright colours used for decorative purposes, commonly painted with Chinese art and calligraphy motifs; some float in the air like hot-air balloons, and some float on water.

   Hypernym: lantern

   Near-synonym: sky lantern

3. A bladder cherry (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi).
4. Various shrubs in the genus Abutilon.
5. The shrub or small tree Dichrostachys cinerea.
6. The plant Quincula lobata.
7. (mathematics) Synonym of Schwarz lantern.

Derived terms

• Chinese lantern structure

Translations

paper lantern

• Bulgarian: кита́йски фене́р m (kitájski fenér)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 燈籠 / 灯笼 (dang¹ lung⁴)

  Dungan: дынлу (dɨnlu)

  Eastern Min: 燈籠 / 灯笼 (dĕng-lè̤ng)

  Gan: 燈籠 / 灯笼 (den¹ lung)

  Hokkien: 燈籠 / 灯笼 (teng-lóng)

  Jin: 燈籠 / 灯笼 (deng¹ lou¹)

  Mandarin: 燈籠 / 灯笼 (zh) (dēnglóng)

  Northern Min: 燈籠 / 灯笼 (dáing-lô̤ng)

  Wu: 燈籠 / 灯笼 (¹ten-lon)

  Xiang: 亮殼子 / 亮壳子 (lian⁵ ko⁶ zr), 燈籠 / 灯笼 (denn¹ neng^2*)

• Czech: lampion m, lampión m
• Danish: kinesisk lygte c
• Dutch: lampion (nl) m
• Finnish: kiinalainen lyhty
• French: lampion (fr) m
• German: Lampion (de) m
• Hawaiian: kanaluna
• Hungarian: lampion (hu)
• Indonesian: lampion (id)
• Irish: laindéar Síneach m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 提灯 (ja) (ちょうちん, chōchin), 灯篭 (ja) (とうろう, tōrō)
• Korean: 등롱(燈籠) (deungnong)
• Malay: tanglung (ms)
• Manchu: ᡩᡝᠩᠯᡠ (denglu)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дэнлүү (mn) (denlüü)

  Mongolian script: ᠳ᠋ᠧᠩᠯᠦ (dēnglü)

• Portuguese: lanterna chinesa f
• Russian: кита́йский фона́рик m (kitájskij fonárik), бума́жный фона́рь m (bumážnyj fonárʹ)
• Tibetan: གནམ་སྒྲོན (gnam sgron)
• Ukrainian: кита́йський ліхта́р m (kytájsʹkyj lixtár)
• Vietnamese: đèn lồng (vi)
• Zhuang: daengloengz

bladder cherry — see bladder cherry