abat-jour

See also: abatjour and Abat-jour

English

Alternative forms

• abatjour

Etymology

Borrowed from French abat-jour.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑˌbɑˈʒʊ.ɚ/, /ˌɑˌbɑˈʒʊɹ/

Noun

abat-jour (plural abat-jours)

1. A skylight.
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

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors ((Can we date this quote?)), “abat-jour”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “abat-jour”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “abat-jour”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.ʒuʁ/

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Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours or abat-jour)

1. lampshade
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Et l'abat-jour du quinquet, accroché dans la muraille au-dessus de la tête d'Emma, éclairait tous ces tableaux du monde, qui passaient devant elle les uns après les autres, dans le silence du dortoir et au bruit lointain de quelque fiacre attardé qui roulait encore sur les boulevards.

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

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: abazhur
• → Arabic: أَبَاجُور (ʔabāžūr)
• → Bulgarian: абажу́р (abažúr)
• → Czech: abažúr
• → Egyptian Arabic: أباچورة (ʔabajōra)
• → English: abat-jour
• → Estonian: abažuur
• → Greek: αμπαζούρ (ampazoúr)
  • → Ladino: abazur
• → Hijazi Arabic: أَبَجورة (ʔabajōra)
• → Italian: abat-jour
• → Latvian: abažūrs
• → Lithuanian: abažūras
• → Persian: آباژور (âbâžur)
• → Polish: abażur
• → Portuguese: abajur, abat-jour, abaju, abajour
  • → Hunsrik: Abaschur
• → 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)
  • → Udmurt: 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

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Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

1. (Jersey) blind

Romagnol

Etymology

From French abat-jour.

Pronunciation

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