abat-jour

See also: abatjour

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

• 1889 Century Dictionary, volume 1 page 6

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.ʒuʁ/

Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

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

Descendants

• → Albanian: abazhur
• → Arabic: أَبَاجُور (ʾabāžūr)
• → Bulgarian: абажур (abažur)
• → Crimean Tatar: abajur
• → Czech: abažúr
• → English: abatjour
• → Estonian: abažuur
• → Georgian: აბაჟური (abažuri)
• → Greek: αμπαζούρ (ampazoúr)
• → Italian: abat-jour
• → Latvian: abažūrs
• → Lithuanian: abažūras
• → Persian: آباژور (âbâžur)
• → Polish: abażur
• → Portuguese: abajur
• → Romanian: abajur
• → Russian: абажу́р (abažúr)
  • → Azerbaijani: abajur
  • → Bashkir: абажур
  • → Belarusian: абажу́р (abažúr)
  • → Chuvash: абажур (abažur)
  • → Kazakh: абажур (abajur)
  • → Ossetian: абажур (abažur)
  • → Tatar: абажур (abajur)
  • → Tajik: абажур (abažur)
  • → Ukrainian: абажу́р (abažúr)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: абажур

  Latin script: abažur

• → Turkish: abajur

Further reading

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

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Norman

Etymology

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Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

1. (Jersey) blind