fluorescent lamp

English

Etymology

Different types of fluorescent lamps.

From fluorescent (adjective) +‎ lamp (noun).

Noun

fluorescent lamp (plural fluorescent lamps)

1. A gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light, especially one consisting of a tube filled with mercury vapour which emits ultraviolet radiation when an electric current is passed through it, causing fluorescence when the radiation hits a phosphor coating on the interior of the tube.

   Synonym: (South Asia) tubelight

Derived terms

• compact fluorescent lamp

Translations

gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light

• Armenian: լյումինեսցենտային լամպ (lyuminescʻentayin lamp)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日光燈 / 日光灯 (zh) (rìguāngdēng), 熒光燈 / 荧光灯 (zh) (yíngguāngdēng)

• Czech: zářivka (cs) f
• Danish: lysstofrør n
• Dutch: tl-buis (nl) f (tubular), spaarlamp (nl) f (compact)
• Finnish: loisteputki (fi), loisteputkilamppu, loistelamppu (fi)
• French: tube fluorescent (fr) m
• German: Leuchtstofflampe (de) f
• Hungarian: fénycső (hu), világítócső (hu)
• Indonesian: lampu fluoresen (id)
• Japanese: 蛍光灯 (ja) (けいこうとう, keikōtō)
• Korean: 형광등(螢光燈) (hyeonggwangdeung)
• Malay: lampu kalimantang
• Norwegian: lysrør n, lysstoffrør n
• Polish: świetlówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: lâmpada fluorescente f
• Russian: люминесце́нтная ла́мпа f (ljuminescéntnaja lámpa), ла́мпа дневно́го све́та f (lámpa dnevnóvo svéta)
• Swedish: lysrör (sv) n, lysrörslampa c

Further reading

• fluorescent lamp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “fluorescent lamp, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2025.
• “fluorescent lamp, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.