lighthouse

English

A lighthouse

Aerial footage of a lighthouse.

Etymology

From light +‎ house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪthaʊs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

lighthouse (plural lighthouses)

2. A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.

   Alternative form: light house

   Synonyms: obeliscolychny (rare), phare

   Hypernyms: house, building; light (synecdochally hypernymous); aid

   Coordinate terms: light buoy, lightboat, lightship, lightvessel

Derived terms

• lighthouse coffeepot
• lighthouse keeper
• lighthouse tube
• screw-pile lighthouse

Translations

building containing a light to warn or guide ships

• Afrikaans: vuurtoring (af), ligtoring
• Albanian: far m, fanar (sq) m
• Arabic: مَنَارَة (ar) f (manāra), مَنَار m (manār), فَنَار m (fanār)

  Egyptian Arabic: منارة f (manāra), فنار m (fanār)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَنارة f (manāra)

• Armenian: փարոս (hy) (pʻaros)
• Asturian: faru m
• Azerbaijani: mayak (az), dəniz fənəri
• Basque: itsasargi
• Belarusian: мая́к m (maják)
• Bengali: বাতিঘর (bn) (batighor)
• Breton: tour-tan (br)
• Bulgarian: фар (bg) m (far)
• Burmese: မီးပြတိုက် (my) (mi:pra.tuik)
• Catalan: far (ca) m
• Central Dusun: walai-tapuy
• Chechen: маяк (majak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 燈塔 / 灯塔 (dang¹ taap³)

  Dungan: дынтэ (dɨnte)

  Hokkien: 燈塔 / 灯塔 (zh-min-nan) (teng-thah)

  Mandarin: 燈塔 / 灯塔 (zh) (dēngtǎ), 岸標 / 岸标 (zh) (ànbiāo)

• Cornish: golowji
• Czech: maják (cs) m
• Danish: fyr (da) n, fyrtårn (da) n
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: vuurtoren (nl) m
• Esperanto: lumturo
• Estonian: tuletorn, majakas
• Faroese: viti m
• Finnish: majakka (fi)
• French: phare (fr) m
• Gagauz: fener
• Galician: faro (gl) m
• Georgian: შუქურა (ka) (šukura)
• German: Leuchtturm (de) m

  Alemannic German: Lüüchtturm m

• Greek: φάρος (el) m (fáros)

  Ancient: φρυκτώριον n (phruktṓrion)

• Greenlandic: naaralaartitsivik
• Gujarati: દીવાદાંડી f (dīvādā̃ḍī)
• Hawaiian: hale ipukukui
• Hebrew: מִגדַלוֹר (he) m (migdalór)
• Hindi: रोशनीघर m (rośnīghar), दीपगृह (dīpgŕh), प्रकाशस्तंभ m (prakāśastambh)
• Hungarian: világítótorony (hu)
• Icelandic: viti (is) m, vitaturn (is) m
• Ido: faro (io)
• Indonesian: mercusuar (id), menara api (id)
• Interlingua: pharo
• Irish: teach solais m
• Italian: faro (it) m
• Japanese: 灯台 (ja) (とうだい, tōdai)
• Kannada: ಕಡಲಬೆಳಕು (kn) (kaḍalabeḷaku)
• Kashubian: bliza f, latarniô f
• Kazakh: шамшырақ (şamşyraq), маяк (maäk)
• Khmer: សើន (km) (saən), ប្រទីប (km) (prɑtiip), ហ្វារ (km) (faa)
• Korean: 등대(燈臺) (ko) (deungdae)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: fanûsgeh

• Kyrgyz: маяк (ky) (mayak)
• Lao: ປະພາຄານ (pa phā khān)
• Latin: pharus m
• Latvian: bāka f
• Lithuanian: švyturys m
• Luxembourgish: Liichttuerm m, Phar m
• Macedonian: све́тилник m (svétilnik), фар m (far)
• Malay: rumah api (ms)
• Malayalam: വിളക്കുമാടം (ml) (viḷakkumāṭaṁ)
• Maltese: fanal m
• Manx: thie soilshee m, thie sollysh m
• Maori: whare rama, whare tūrama
• Marathi: दीपस्तंभ (mr) (dīpastambha)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гэрэлт цамхаг (gerelt camxag)

• Nepali: प्रकाशस्तम्भ (prakāśastambha)
• Norman: veue f
• Northern Sami: čuovgatoardna
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fyr (no) n, fyrtårn (no) n

• Occitan: far (oc)
• Old English: fȳrtorr m
• Ottoman Turkish: فنار (fenar, fener)
• Persian: فانوس دریایی (fa) (fânus-e daryâyi)
• Plautdietsch: Lichttorm m
• Polish: latarnia morska (pl) f
• Portuguese: farol (pt) m
• Romanian: far (ro) n
• Russian: мая́к (ru) m (maják)
• Sanskrit: दीपस्तंभ (dīpastaṃbha)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-solais m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: светио̀нӣк m, свјетио̀нӣк m, светиља f

  Roman: svetiònīk m, svjetiònīk (sh) m, svetilja f

• Sinhalese: ප්‍රදීපාගාරය (pradīpāgāraya), ප්රදීපාගාරය (pradīpāgāraya)
• Slovak: maják (sk) m
• Slovene: svetilnik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: swěśak m, swětlak m

  Upper Sorbian: swětłownja f

• Spanish: faro (es) m
• Swahili: mnara
• Swedish: fyr (sv) c, fyrtorn (sv) n
• Tagalog: parola (tl)
• Tajik: мино (mino), минои баҳрӣ (mino-yi bahri), маяк (tg) (mayak), фонуси дарёӣ (fonus-i daryoi)
• Tamil: கலங்கரைவிளக்கம் (ta) (kalaṅkaraiviḷakkam)
• Tatar: маяк (mayak)
• Telugu: దీపస్తంభం (te) (dīpastambhaṁ)
• Tetum: farol
• Thai: ประภาคาร (th) (bprà-paa-kaan), กระโจมไฟ (th) (grà-joom-fai), เรือนตะเกียง (th) (rʉʉan-dtà-giiang), เรือนไฟ (th) (rʉʉan-fai)
• Tigrinya: መናራ (mänara)
• Turkish: fener (tr), fener kulesi, deniz feneri (tr)
• Turkmen: maýak
• Ukrainian: мая́к (uk) m (maják)
• Urdu: منارہ (manāra), روشنی گھر m (rośanī ghar)
• Uyghur: ماياك (mayak)
• Uzbek: mayak (uz)
• Veps: majak
• Vietnamese: hải đăng (vi)
• Volapük: far (vo)
• Welsh: goleudy m
• West Frisian: fjoertoer c
• Yiddish: לײַכטטורעם m (laykhtturem)

See also

• beacon

Anagrams

• houselight