lamp

See also: Lamp and LAMP

English

A desk lamp

A halogen lamp

Etymology

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, borrowed from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Replaced Middle English leohtfet, lihtfat (“lamp, sconce, candlestick”), from Old English lēohtfæt (“lamp, lantern, torch, light”, literally “light-vat, light-vessel”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lămp, IPA^(key): /læmp/

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• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

lamp (plural lamps)

1. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
2. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
3. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:light source

Derived terms

• Davy lamp
• lamp post, lamppost
• table lamp

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: lam
• → Korean: 램프 (raempeu)

Translations

device producing light

• Afrikaans: lamp
• Albanian: llambë (sq) f
• Arabic: مِصْبَاح‎ m (miṣbāḥ), لَمْبَة‎ f (lamba)
• Armenian: լամպ (hy) (lamp)
• Asturian: llámpara f
• Azerbaijani: lampa (az), çıraq (az)
• Belarusian: ла́мпа (be) f (lámpa), ла́мпачка f (lámpačka) (globe)
• Bengali: ল্যাম্প (ljamp)
• Bulgarian: ла́мпа (bg) f (lámpa)
• Burmese: မီးခွက် (my) (mi:hkwak)
• Catalan: làmpada (ca) f
• Chechen: чыркъ (čyrq̇), чиркъ (čirq̇)
• Chichewa: nyale
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 燈, 灯 (dang¹), 電燈, 电灯 (din⁶ dang¹)

  Mandarin: 燈 (zh), 灯 (zh) (dēng), 電燈 (zh), 电灯 (zh) (diàndēng)

• Czech: lampa (cs) f
• Danish: lampe (da) c
• Dutch: lamp (nl) f or m
• Estonian: lamp (et)
• Faroese: lampa f
• Finnish: valaisin (fi), lamppu (fi)
• French: lampe (fr) f
• Galician: lámpada f
• Georgian: ლამპა (lamṗa), ნათურა (natura), ლამპარი (lamṗari), ჩირაღდანი (čiraɣdani)
• German: Lampe (de) f
• Greek: λάμπα (el) f (lámpa)
• Gujarati: દીવો f (dīvo), લેમ્પ f (lemp)
• Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה‎ (he) f (menorá)
• Hindi: चिराग़ m (cirāġ), लैंप (hi) m (laimp)
• Hungarian: lámpa (hu)
• Icelandic: lampi (is) m
• Ido: lampo (io)
• Indonesian: lampu (id)
• Irish: lampa m
• Italian: lampada (it) f, lampadina (it) f
• Japanese: ランプ (ja) (ranpu), 明かり (ja) (あかり, akari), 灯 (ja) (とう, tō), 電灯 (ja) (でんとう, dentō)
• Kalmyk: шам (şam)
• Kazakh: лампа (kk) (lampa), шам (şam), шырақ (kk) (şıraq)
• Khmer: ចង្កៀង (km) (cɑngkiəng)
• Korean: 램프 (ko) (raempeu), 전등 (ko) (jeondeung), 등불 (deungbul)
• Kyrgyz: лампа (lampa)

• Lao: ໂຄມໄຟ (lo) (khōm fai)
• Latvian: lampa f
• Lithuanian: lempa (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Luucht (lb) f
• Macedonian: ла́мпа f (lámpa), све́тилка f (svétilka)
• Malay: lampu
• Maltese: lampa (mt) f, musbieħ m
• Mongolian: чийдэн (mn) (čijden), гэрэл (mn) (gerel) (light)
• Norwegian: lampe (no) m or f
• Ossetian: цырагъ (cyraǧ), лампӕ (lampæ)
• Pashto: چراغ‎ (ps) m (čerãǧ)
• Persian: لمپا‎ (fa) (lampâ), چراغ‎ (fa) (čerâğ, čarâğ), مصباح‎ (fa) (mesbâh)
• Polish: lampa (pl) f
• Portuguese: luminária, lâmpada (pt)
• Romanian: lampă (ro) f, lampă electrică f
• Russian: ла́мпа (ru) f (lámpa), ла́мпочка (ru) f (lámpočka) (globe)
• Sanskrit: केतु (sa) m (ketu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: светиљка f, свјетиљка f, лампа f

  Roman: svetiljka (sh) f, svjetiljka (sh) f, lampa (sh) f

• Slovak: lampa f
• Slovene: svetilka (sl) f
• Sotho: lebone, lampi
• Spanish: lámpara (es) f
• Swahili: taa (sw)
• Swedish: lampa (sv)
• Tagalog: lampara
• Tajik: чароғ (čaroġ), лампа (lampa), мисбоҳ (misboh)
• Thai: โคมไฟ (koom-fai)
• Tibetan: ཞུ་མར (zhu mar)
• Turkish: lamba (tr), ampul (tr), lamba (tr)
• Turkmen: lampa
• Ukrainian: ла́мпа f (lámpa), ла́мпочка f (lámpočka) (globe)
• Urdu: چراغ‎ m (cirāġ, carāġ)
• Uyghur: لامپا‎ (lampa), چىراغ‎ (chiragh)
• Uzbek: lampa (uz), chiroq (uz)
• Vietnamese: đèn (vi), đèn điện (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: lampe (wa) f
• Welsh: lamp (cy) f, llusern f, lampiau f pl
• White Hmong: teeb
• Yagnobi: чироғ
• Yiddish: לאָמפּ‎ m (lomp)

oil device producing light

• Afrikaans: lamp
• Albanian: llambë (sq) f
• Arabic: مِصْبَاح‎ m (miṣbāḥ), قِنْدِيل‎ m (qindīl)
• Armenian: լամպ (hy) (lamp), լապտեր (hy) (lapter)
• Asturian: llámpara f
• Catalan: làmpada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燈 (zh), 灯 (zh) (dēng)

• Czech: lampa (cs) f
• Danish: lampe (da) c, olielampe c
• Dutch: lamp (nl) f or m, olielamp (nl) f or m
• Faroese: lampa f
• Finnish: öljylamppu (fi)
• French: lampe (fr) f
• Galician: lámpada f
• Georgian: ლამპა (lamṗa)
• German: Lampe (de) f, Öllampe (de) f
• Greek: λάμπα (el) f (lámpa)

  Ancient: λύχνος m (lúkhnos)

• Hausa: fitila
• Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה‎ (he) f (m'norá)
• Hindi: बत्ती (hi) f (battī), चिराग़ m (cirāġ)
• Hungarian: olajlámpa (hu), mécses (hu)
• Irish: lampa m
• Italian: lampada (it) f
• Japanese: ランプ (ja) (ranpu), 明かり (ja) (あかり, akari)
• Kalmyk: шам (şam)
• Kazakh: шам (şam)
• Khmer: ចង្កៀង (km) (cɑŋkiəŋ), ចង្កៀងខ្លាញ់ (cɑŋkiəŋ klaɲ)
• Kom (Cameroon): lâm

• Korean: 램프 (ko) (raempeu), 광명 (ko) (gwangmyeong)
• Latin: lucerna f, laterna f
• Malay: pelita
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lampe (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: lampe m or f

• Persian: چراغ‎ (fa) (čerâğ)
• Plautdietsch: Laump f
• Polish: lampa (pl) f
• Portuguese: candeia (pt) f
• Romanian: lampă (ro) f, lămpi f pl
• Russian: ла́мпа (ru) f (lámpa), свети́льник (ru) m (svetílʹnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: svetiljka (sh) f, svjetiljka (sh) f, lampa (sh) f

• Sindhi: بَتيِ‎ f (batī)
• Slovak: lampa f
• Sotho: lebone, lampi
• Spanish: lámpara (es) f, candil (es) m
• Swahili: taa (sw)
• Swedish: lampa (sv) c, oljelampa c
• Tajik: чароғ (čaroġ)
• Thai: โคม (th) (koom), ประทีป (th) (bprà-tîip)
• Turkish: lamba (tr), yağ lambası
• Urdu: چراغ‎ m (cirāġ, carāġ)
• Volapük: lampad (vo)
• Walloon: lampe (wa) f, crasset (wa) m, lantiene (wa) f, kénket (wa) m
• Welsh: lamp (cy) f
• White Hmong: teeb
• Yiddish: לאָמפּ‎ m (lomp)

piece of furniture

• Finnish: valaisin (fi), lamppu (fi)

• Russian: ла́мпа (ru) f (lámpa), свети́льник (ru) m (svetílʹnik)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ნათურა (natura), ^{(please verify)} ფარანი (parani)
• Gujarati: ^{(please verify)} દીપ m (dīp), ^{(please verify)} દીપક m (dīpak), ^{(please verify)} ચિરાગ઼ m (cirāġ)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} दिया (hi) m (diyā), ^{(please verify)} दीप (hi) m (dīp), ^{(please verify)} दीपक (hi) m (dīpak), ^{(please verify)} चिराग़ m (cirāġ)
• Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} چرا‎ (ku) (çra)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} lempa (lt) f

• Persian: ^{(please verify)} چراغ‎ (fa) (čerâğ, čarâğ)
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} விளக்கு (ta) (viḷakku), ^{(please verify)} தீபம் (ta) (tīpam)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} దీపం (te) (dīpaṃ), ^{(please verify)} దివ్వె (te) (divve)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} دیا‎ m (diyā), ^{(please verify)} دیپ‎ m (dīpa), ^{(please verify)} دیپک‎ m (dīpak), ^{(please verify)} چراغ‎ m (cirāġġ)

Verb

lamp (third-person singular simple present lamps, present participle lamping, simple past and past participle lamped)

1. (slang) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
2. To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping.
3. (slang) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

References

• lamp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• MPLA, Palm, palm

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lamp, from Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamp/

Noun

lamp (plural lampe, diminutive lampje)

1. lamp

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Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German lamp, from Old High German lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz. Cognate with German Lamm, Dutch lam, English lamb, Icelandic lamb.

Noun

lamp n (plural lémper, diminutive lèmple)

1. (Sette Comuni) lamb

References

• “lamp” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑmp/

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• Hyphenation: lamp
• Rhymes: -ɑmp

Noun

lamp f (plural lampen, diminutive lampje n)

1. lamp
2. (electronics, informal) vacuum tube, thermionic valve

   Synonyms: radiolamp, buis, elektronenbuis, radiobuis

Derived terms

• aromalamp
• autolamp
• bedlamp
• bermlamp
• booglamp
• bouwlamp
• buislamp
• buitenlamp
• bureaulamp
• carbidlamp
• designlamp
• fietslamp
• flitslamp
• fotolamp
• gaslamp
• gloeilamp
• godslamp
• groeilamp
• hanglamp
• hoofdlamp
• keukenlamp
• knijplamp
• koplamp
• kroonlamp
• kwartslamp
• kwiklamp
• lampenfabriek
• lampenfabrikant
• lampenkap
• lamphouder
• lamplicht
• lampolie
• lavalamp
• ledlamp
• leeslamp
• looplamp
• mijnlamp
• mistlamp
• muurlamp
• nachtlamp
• neonlamp
• olielamp
• partylamp
• pillamp
• radiolamp
• remlamp
• schaarlamp
• waterstoflamp
• xenonlamp

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lamp
• → Japanese: ランプ (ranpu)
• → Malay: lampu
  • Indonesian: lampu

Anagrams

• palm

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Estonian

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German lampe or German Lampe.

Noun

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi)

1. lamp

Declension

Declension of lamp (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	lamp	lambid
genitive	lambi	lampide
partitive	lampi	lampe / lampisid
illative	lampi / lambisse	lampidesse
inessive	lambis	lampides
elative	lambist	lampidest
allative	lambile	lampidele
adessive	lambil	lampidel
ablative	lambilt	lampidelt
translative	lambiks	lampideks
terminative	lambini	lampideni
essive	lambina	lampidena
abessive	lambita	lampideta
comitative	lambiga	lampidega

Adjective

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi)

1. (colloquial) random

   See on mingi lamp vend.

   He's some random dude.

Declension

Declension of lamp (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	lamp	lambid
genitive	lambi	lampide
partitive	lampi	lampe / lampisid
illative	lampi / lambisse	lampidesse
inessive	lambis	lampides
elative	lambist	lampidest
allative	lambile	lampidele
adessive	lambil	lampidel
ablative	lambilt	lampidelt
translative	lambiks	lampideks
terminative	lambini	lampideni
essive	lambina	lampidena
abessive	lambita	lampideta
comitative	lambiga	lampidega

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare lame (“flat”), lamama (“to lay down”).

Adjective

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi)

1. flat (as in flat-footed)

   Joosepil on lampis jalad.

   Joosep has flat feet.

Declension

Declension of lamp (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	lamp	lambid
genitive	lambi	lampide
partitive	lampi	lampe / lampisid
illative	lampi / lambisse	lampidesse
inessive	lambis	lampides
elative	lambist	lampidest
allative	lambile	lampidele
adessive	lambil	lampidel
ablative	lambilt	lampidelt
translative	lambiks	lampideks
terminative	lambini	lampideni
essive	lambina	lampidena
abessive	lambita	lampideta
comitative	lambiga	lampidega

Usage notes

Mostly used in the context of flat feet.

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Middle English

Noun

lamp

1. Alternative form of laumpe

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑmp/

Verb

lamp

1. first/third-person singular present of limpan

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Polish

Noun

lamp

1. genitive plural of lampa

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Scots

Verb

lamp (third-person singular present lamps, present participle lampin, past lampt, past participle lampt)

1. (intransitive) To run wild; to scamper.
2. (intransitive) To go jauntily.

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Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lamp

1. lamp

Inflection

Inflection of lamp
nominative sing.	lamp
genitive sing.	lampan
partitive sing.	lampad
partitive plur.	lampoid
	singular	plural
nominative	lamp	lampad
accusative	lampan	lampad
genitive	lampan	lampoiden
partitive	lampad	lampoid
essive-instructive	lampan	lampoin
translative	lampaks	lampoikš
inessive	lampas	lampoiš
elative	lampaspäi	lampoišpäi
illative	?	lampoihe
adessive	lampal	lampoil
ablative	lampalpäi	lampoilpäi
allative	lampale	lampoile
abessive	lampata	lampoita
comitative	lampanke	lampoidenke
prolative	lampadme	lampoidme
approximative I	lampanno	lampoidenno
approximative II	lampannoks	lampoidennoks
egressive	lampannopäi	lampoidennopäi
terminative I	?	lampoihesai
terminative II	lampalesai	lampoilesai
terminative III	lampassai	—
additive I	?	lampoihepäi
additive II	lampalepäi	lampoilepäi

Derived terms

• avtolamp
• jauglamp
• lagilamp
• seinlamp
• lampankatuz

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “лампа, светильник”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Welsh

Etymology

IE *leuk- ‘light, brightness’,

Noun

lamp f (plural lampau)

1. lamp

Synonyms

• llusern