English
A flashlight.
Etymology
flash light
Pronunciation
Noun
flashlight (plural flashlights
( US , Canada ) battery -powered hand-held light source .
1997 , Saul Bellow , The Actual At school he used to do Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr. Hyde, shining a flashlight into his face. A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).
1943 , Sinclair Lewis , Gideon Planish He sat in an arm-chair with his forefinger to his temple, and when the photographer's flashlight went off, he hoped that the hotel had caught fire and that this would end it all. 1992 , Adam Thorpe , Ulverton [ …] the flashlight exploded like a tiny bomb, making the Vicar jump a little, which explains why his face is a thankful blur, his deadly role forgotten to history (I have the photograph before me now).2006 , Stefan Zweig , Chess Anthea Bell , London: Penguin,
[ …] two or three bright flashlights went off close to us. It seemed that some prominent person was being quickly interviewed by reporters and photographed just before the ship left.
Synonyms
(hand-held light source ) torch UK , Aus , NZ )
Derived terms
Translations
battery-powered hand-held light source
Arabic: مِشْعَل m ( mišʕal )
Hijazi Arabic: كَشَّاف m ( kaššāf )
Armenian: լապտեր (hy) ( lapter ) , գրպանի էլեկտրական լապտեր ( grpani ēlektrakan lapter ) , ձեռքի լապտեր ( jeṙkʻi lapter )
Asturian: llinterna f
Azerbaijani: cib fənəri fənər
Belarusian: ліхта́рык m ( lixtáryk ) , ліхта́р m ( lixtár )
Bengali: টর্চলাইট ( ṭorcolaiṭ )
Bulgarian: ръчно фенерче n ( rǎčno fenerče )
Burmese: တုတ်မီး (my) ( tutmi: )
Catalan: llanterna (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 手電筒 ／ 手电筒 (zh) ( shǒudiàntǒng ) , 手电筒 (zh) ( shǒudiàntǒng )
Czech: baterka (cs) f
Danish: stavlygte c lommelygte (da) c
Dutch: zaklamp (nl) f
Esperanto: poŝlampo
Estonian: taskulamp
Faroese: lummalykt f
Finnish: taskulamppu (fi) , fikkari (fi)
French: lampe de poche (fr) f torche (fr) f
Galician: lanterna f foco (gl) m
Georgian: ელექტრო ფარანი ( elekṭro parani )
German: Taschenlampe (de) f
Greek: φακός (el) m ( fakós )
Gujarati: હાથબત્તી ( hāthbattī )
Hebrew: פָּנָס (he) m ( panás )
Hindi: टार्च m ( ṭārc )
Hungarian: elemlámpa (hu) , zseblámpa (hu)
Icelandic: vasaljós n
Indonesian: senter (id)
Irish: tóirse m
Italian: torcia elettrica f
Japanese: 懐中電燈 ( かいちゅうでんとう, kaichū dentō ) , トーチ (ja) ( tōchi )
Khmer: ពិល (km) ( pɨl ) , អគ្និមណី ( ʼakniʼ mĕəʼnii ) , កែវឆ្លុះ ( kaew chloh )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Korean: 등불 ( deungbul ) , 손전등 (ko) ( sonjeondeung ) , 토치 ( tochi )
Kutenai: kaǂnuqaxni·muǂ
Kyrgyz: фонарча ( fonarca ) , колчырак ( kolcırak )
Lao: ໄຟສາຍ ( fai sāi )
Latin: lanterna (la) f
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Malay: lampu picit
Mongolian: гар чийдэн ( gar čiiden )
Navajo: bee nʼdildlaadí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lommelykt m or f
Nynorsk: lommelykt f
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: latarka (pl) f
Portuguese: lanterna (pt) f
Romanian: lanternă (ro) f
Russian: фона́рик (ru) m ( fonárik ) , фона́рь (ru) m ( fonárʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: lòchran m
Slovak: baterka f
Slovene: svetilka (sl) f
Spanish: linterna (es) f ( Costa Rica, Nicaragua ) foco (es) m lámpara (es) f
Swahili: tochi (sw)
Swedish: ficklampa (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: ไฟฉาย (th) ( fai-chǎai )
Tibetan: གློག་ཞུ ( glog zhu ) , སྦི་ཅི་ལི ( sbi ci li )
Turkish: fener (tr) , el feneri (tr)
Ukrainian: ліхта́рик m ( lixtáryk ) , ліхта́р m ( lixtár ) ( big one )
Urdu: ٹارچ m ( ṭārc )
Uzbek: fonarcha
Vietnamese: đèn pin (vi)
Volapük: pokalampad
Welsh: fflachlamp f
Yami: dingki
Verb
flashlight (third-person singular simple present flashlights present participle flashlighting simple past and past participle flashlit
( transitive ) illuminate with a flashlight.
2011 , Bart Bare, Wadmalaw: A Ghost Story (page 51)
Autis stepped carefully while flashlighting the fog in front of himself and Gar.
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