lamp

See also: LAMP

English

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Etymology

From Middle English lampe, 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, 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) IPA^(key): /læmp/

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• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

lamp (plural lamps)

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

Derived terms

• Davy lamp
• table lamp

Translations

oil device producing light

• Afrikaans: lamp
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مصباح (miṣbāḥ)
• Asturian: llámpara f
• Catalan: làmpada f
• Chinese: 燈, 灯 (dēng)
• Czech: lampa (cs) f
• Danish: lampe (da) c, olielampe c
• Dutch: lamp f, m, olielamp f, m
• Faroese: lampa f
• French: lampe (fr) f
• Galician: lámpada f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Lampe (de) f, Öllampe (de) f
• Greek: λάμπα (el) f (lámpa)
• Hausa: fitila
• Hebrew: מנורה (he) f (menorá)
• White Hmong: teeb
• Hungarian: olajlámpa, mécses (hu)
• Irish: lampa m
• Italian: lampada (it) f
• Japanese: ランプ (ja) (ranpu), 明かり (あかり, akari)

• Kazakh: шам (şam)
• Kom (Cameroon): lâm
• Latin: lucerna f, laterna f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lampe (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: lampe m, f

• Persian: چراغ (fa) (čerâğ)
• Polish: lampa (pl) f
• Portuguese: candeia (pt) f
• Romanian: lampă (ro) f, lămpi f pl
• Russian: лампа (ru) f (lámpa), светильник (ru) m (sv'etíl'nik)
• Serbo-Croatian: svetiljka f, lampa f
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: lampa f
• Sotho: lebone, lampi
• Spanish: lámpara (es) f, candil (es) m
• Swahili: taa (sw)
• Swedish: lampa (sv) c, oljelampa c
• Turkish: lamba (tr), yağ lambası
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: lampe (wa) f, crasset (wa) m, lantiene (wa) f, kénket (wa) m
• Welsh: lamp (cy) f

electric device producing light

• Afrikaans: lamp
• Albanian: llambë f
• Arabic: مصباح (miṣbāḥ)
• Asturian: llámpara f
• Catalan: làmpada f
• Chinese: 燈, 灯 (dēng)
• Czech: lampa (cs) f
• Danish: lampe (da) c
• Dutch: lamp f, m
• Faroese: lampa f
• French: lampe (fr) f
• Galician: lámpada f
• German: Lampe (de) f
• Greek: λάμπα (el) f (lámpa)
• Gujarati: દીવો f (dīvō), લેમ્પ f (lēmpa)
• Hungarian: lámpa (hu)
• Icelandic: lampi (is) m
• Ido: lampo (io)
• Indonesian: lampu (id)
• Irish: lampa m
• Italian: lampada (it) f

• Japanese: ランプ (ja) (rampu), 明かり (あかり, akari), 灯 (ja) (とう, tō), 電灯 (ja) (でんとう, dentō)
• Luxembourgish: Luucht (lb) f
• Malay: lampu
• Norwegian: lampe (no) m, f
• Persian: لامپ (fa) (lâmp)
• Polish: lampa (pl) f
• Portuguese: lâmpada (pt)
• Romanian: lampă (ro) f, lampă electrică f
• Russian: лампа (ru) f (lámpa)
• Serbo-Croatian: svetiljka f, lampa f
• Slovak: lampa f
• Sotho: lebone, lampi
• Spanish: lámpara (es) f
• Swahili: taa (sw)
• Swedish: lampa (sv)
• Tagalog: lampara
• Turkish: lamba (tr), ampul (tr), lamba (tr)
• Uzbek: lampa (uz)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: lampe (wa) f
• Welsh: lamp (cy) f, llusern f

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• Georgian: ნათურა (nat’ura), ფარანი (p’arani)
• Gujarati: દીપ (dīp) m, દીપક (dīpak) m, ચિરાગ઼ (ćirāg) m
• Hindi: दिया (diyā) m, दीप (dīpa) m, दीपक (dīpak) m, चिराग़ (ćirāg) m
• Kurdish: چرا (ku)
• Lithuanian: lempa f

• Persian: چراغ (fa) (ćarāg)
• Portuguese: lâmpada f
• Tamil: vilakku/deepam
• Telugu: దీపం (dīpam), దివ్వె (divve)
• Urdu: دیا m (diyā), دیپ m (dīpa), دیپک m (dīpak), چراغ m (ćirāg)

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

Anagrams

• palm

References

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑmp
• IPA^(key): /lɑmp/

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Noun

lamp f (plural lampen, diminutive lampje n)

1. lamp

Anagrams

• palm

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamp/

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Verb

lamp

1. first-person singular present of limpan
2. third-person singular present of limpan

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Welsh

Etymology

Borrowing from English lamp.

Noun

lamp f (plural lampau)

1. lamp

Synonyms

• llusern