English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English midnight Old English midniht Proto-Germanic *midjanahts ( “ midnight ” ) , equivalent to mid- night Saterland Frisian Midnoacht ( “ midnight ” ) , Old High German mittinaht ( “ midnight ” ) , Danish midnat ( “ midnight ” ) , Swedish midnatt ( “ midnight ” ) , Icelandic miðnætti ( “ midnight ” ) . Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht ( “ midnight ” ) , Dutch middernacht ( “ midnight ” ) , German Mitternacht ( “ midnight ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ] midnight (countable and uncountable plural midnights
The middle of the night : the sixth temporal hour , equidistant between sunset and sunrise .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:midnight Antonyms: noon midday Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight , unhindered by the darkness.
Twelve o'clock at night exactly .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:midnight 1906 August , Alfred Noyes , “The Highwayman ”, in Poems , New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company ; London: Macmillan & Co. , published October 1906, OCLC 28569419 pages 50–51 :She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years, / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight , / Cold, on the stroke of midnight , / The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
( dice games ) boxcars Usage notes [ edit ] ( twelve o'clock ) : When attached to a specific date, such as "midnight on 12 July", it may be ambiguous as to whether the time refers to 00:00 (start of day) or 24:00 (end of day); this must be resolved with context.Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
12 o'clock
Abenaki: nôwitebakad
Afrikaans: middernag
Akan: anadwo-kɔnkɔn
Alabama: niɬhóota tankatóohcha
Albanian: mesnatë (sq) f
Alemannic German: Mitternacht
Amharic: እኩለ ሌሊት ( ʾəkulä lelit )
Arabic: مُنْتَصَف اَللَّيْل m ( muntaṣaf al-layl )
Armenian: կեսգիշեր (hy) ( kesgišer )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܲܠܓܵܐ ܕܠܲܝܠܹܐ m ( pālga d-layle )
Asturian: medianueche m
Aymara: chika aruma
Azerbaijani: gecə yarısı
Bambara: dugutila
Bashkir: төн уртаһы ( tön urtahï ) , ярты төн ( yartï tön )
Basque: gauerdi
Belarusian: по́ўнач f ( póŭnač )
Bengali: মধ্যরাত ( môddhrat )
Bikol Central: matanga (bcl)
Bislama: medelnaet
Breton: hanternoz (br) m kreiznoz (br)
Brunei Malay: tangah malam
Bulgarian: полуно́щ (bg) f ( polunóšt )
Burmese: သန်းခေါင် (my) ( san:hkaung )
Catalan: mitjanit (ca) f
Cebuano: tunganggabii
Chamicuro: shawalasko
Chamorro: tatalo' puengi
Chechen: буьйсанан юкъ ( büjsanan juq̇ )
Cherokee: ᏒᏃᏱ ( svnoyi )
Cheyenne: -sétôhtaa'eve
Chichewa: pakati pa usiku
Chinese:
Mandarin: 半夜 (zh) ( bànyè ) , 子夜 (zh) ( zǐyè ) , 午夜 (zh) ( wǔyè )
Min Nan: 半暝 (zh-min-nan) ( poàⁿ-mi )
Cornish: hanter nos f
Corsican: mezanotte f meza notte f mezzanotte f
Crimean Tatar: yarı gece
Czech: půlnoc (cs) f
Danish: midnat (da) n
Dutch: middernacht (nl) m
Emilian: mezanot f
Erzya: пелеве ( peleve )
Esperanto: noktmezo noktomezo
Estonian: kesköö (et)
Evenki: долбонӣ дулинин ( dolboņī duliņin ) , долбонӣ дулмак ( dolboņī dulmak )
Ewe: zãtitina
Faroese: midnátt f
Finnish: keskiyö (fi) , puoliyö (fi)
French: minuit (fr) f
Friulian: miegegnot f
Galician: medianoite f
Georgian: შუაღამე (ka) ( šuaɣame )
German: Mitternacht (de) f
Greek: μεσάνυχτα (el) n pl ( mesánychta )
Ancient Greek: μεσονύκτιον n ( mesonúktion )
Griko: ημισυνύττα f ( imisinìtta )
Greenlandic: unnuap-qeqqa
Guaraní: pyharepyte
Gujarati: મધરાત ( madhrāt )
Hausa: tsakad dare
Hawaiian: aumoe ʻauinapō
Hebrew: חֲצוֹת הַלַּיְלָה (he) f ( khatsòt-haláyla ) , חֲצוֹת (he) f ( khatsót )
Hindi: आधी रात f ( ādhī rāt ) , आधीरात (hi) f ( ādhīrāt ) , अधरात (hi) f ( adhrāt ) , मध्यरात (hi) f ( madhyarāt ) , मध्यरात्रि (hi) f ( madhyarātri )
Hungarian: éjfél (hu)
Hunsrik: Hallebnacht f
Icelandic: miðnætti (is) n lágnætti (is) n
Ido: nokto-mezo (io)
Igbo: ime abali
Indonesian: tengah malam (id)
Ingush: бийсан юкъ ( bīsan juq̇ )
Interlingua: medienocte
Irish: meán oíche f
Istriot: miezanuotto
Italian: mezzanotte (it) f
Japanese: 午前 0時 ( gozen reiji ) , 真夜中 (ja) ( まよなか, mayonaka ) , 正子 ( しょうし, shōshi )
Kabuverdianu: meia-noti
Kalmyk: сөөни өрәл ( sööni öräl ) , сө дүл ( sö dül )
Kannada: ಮಧ್ಯರಾತ್ರಿ (kn) ( madhyarātri )
Kapampangan: kapitangang bengi
Karakalpak: ярым ақшам түн ортасы түн жартысы
Karelian: keskiyö syväinyö
Kashubian: norda f
Kazakh: жарым түн ( jarım tün ) , түн ортасы (kk) ( tün ortası )
Khakas: орты хараа ( ortı xaraa )
Khmer: អធ្រាត្រ (km) ( ʼatthriət )
Komi-Zyrian: вой шӧр ( voj šör )
Korean: 자정(子正) (ko) ( jajeong )
Kumyk: гечорта ( geçorta )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نیوەشەو ( nîweşew )
Northern Kurdish: nîvê şevê (ku) , nîvşev (ku)
Kyrgyz: түн ортосу ( tün ortosu )
Ladin: medanuote f
Lao: ທຽງຄືນ ( thīang khư̄n )
Latgalian: pušnakts f
Latin: media nox f intempestum n
Latvian: pusnakts m
Limburgish: middernach (li)
Lithuanian: vidurnaktis m
Lombard: mezzanott f ( Milanese dialect )
Low German:
German Low German: Middernacht f
Luganda: wakati muttumbi
Luxembourgish: Mëtternuecht f Hallefnuecht (lb) f
Macedonian: полноќ f ( polnoḱ )
Malagasy: mamatonalina (mg)
Malay: tengah malam (ms)
Malayalam: അർദ്ധരാത്രി ( aṟddharātri )
Maltese: nofsillejl
Manx: mean oie
Maori: weherua weherua pō
Marathi: मध्यरात्र ( madhyarātra )
Mari:
Eastern Mari: йӱдпел ( jüdpel )
Western Mari: йыдпел ( jydpel )
Megleno-Romanian: pónoş
Mirandese: meia nuite f
Moksha: пялеве ( pjaleve ) , векучка ( vekučka )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шөнө дунд ( shönö dund )
Nahuatl: tlahcoyohual
Nauruan: atugagan (na)
Navajo: tłʼéʼííłnííʼ
Neapolitan: mezanott' f
Nepali: अधरात ( adharāt ) , मध्यरात ( madhyarāt )
Nogai: юванлав ( yuvanlav ) , семируьв ( semirüv )
Norman: migniet f ( Guernsey )
Northern Sami: gaskaidja
Northern Sotho: bošegogare
Norwegian:
Bokmål: midnatt (no) m or f
Nynorsk: midnatt f
Occitan: mièjanuèch (oc) f mièjanuèit (oc) f
Ossetian: ӕмби́сӕхсӕв ( æmbísæxsæv )
Papiamentu: meyanochi
Pashto: نيمه شپه (ps) f ( nímašpa )
Persian: نیمه شب (fa) ( nime šab ) , نیمهشب ( nime-šab ) , نصف شب ( nesf-e šab )
Piedmontese: mesaneuit
Plains Cree: ᐊᐱᐦᑕᑎᐱᐢᑲᐤ ( apihtatipiskaw )
Polish: północ (pl) f
Portuguese: meia-noite (pt) f
Quechua: chawpi tuta
Romanian: miezul nopții (ro) , miez de noapte (ro) , mijloc de noapte n Moldavian: мезул нопций
Romansch: mesanotg f
Russian: по́лночь (ru) f ( pólnočʹ )
Rwanda-Rundi: igicuku 7 or 8 igi-cugu
Sanskrit: अर्धरात्र (sa) ( ardharātra )
Sardinian: mesanote f mesanoti f
Scots: midnicht
Scottish Gaelic: meadhan-oidhche m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по́ноћ f
Roman: pónoć (sh) f
Shor: орта тӱн
Sicilian: menzannòtti f menzannùotti f ( Palermo dialect )
Slovak: polnoc f
Slovene: polnoč (sl) f
Somali: habeen badh
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: połnoc f
Upper Sorbian: połnóc f
Southern Altai: тӱн ортосы ( tün ortosï )
Spanish: medianoche (es) f
Sranan Tongo: mindrineti
Swedish: midnatt (sv) c
Tabasaran: гьацӏишвар ( hac̣iš°ar )
Tagalog: hatinggabi (tl)
Tajik: ними шаб ( nimi šab ) , нисфи шаб ( nisfi šab )
Tamil: நள்ளிரவு (ta) ( naḷḷiravu )
Tatar: төн уртасы ( tön urtası )
Telugu: నడిరేయి (te) ( naḍirēyi )
Thai: เที่ยงคืน (th) ( tîiang-kʉʉn )
Tibetan: ནམ་གུང ( nam gung )
Tigrinya: ፍርቂ ለይቲ ( fərḳi läyti )
Tofa: түн оъртусу
Tok Pisin: biknait
Tundra Nenets: талв
Turkish: gece yarısı (tr)
Turkmen: ýary gije
Udmurt: уйшор ( ujšor )
Ukrainian: пі́вніч (uk) f ( pívnič )
Urdu: آدھی رات f ( ādhī rāt ) , نصف شب ( nisf śab )
Uyghur: يېرىم كىچە ( yërim kiche )
Uzbek: yarim kecha yarim tun
Venetian: mezanote f
Veps: keskö pol’ö
Vietnamese: nửa đêm (vi)
Vilamovian: mytułnaocht
Volapük: zeneit (vo)
Võro: kesküü
Walloon: meynute (wa)
Waray-Waray: katutngâ
Welsh: canol nos (cy) , hanner nos (cy) m
West Frisian: midnacht
Wolof: xaaji-guddi
Yakut: түүн үөһэ ( tüün üöhe )
Yiddish: האַלבע נאַכט f ( halbe nakht )
Zazaki: nimsew
Adjective [ edit ] midnight (not comparable )
( poetic ) Utterly dark or black .
2013 , Sharon Ricklin, Ravenswynd Legends , page 143:Free and falling, his midnight hair flowed out all around us like a silk canopy.
See also [ edit ] 
