English
Etymology
From Middle English midnight midnyght mydnyght middelniȝte Old English midniht middeniht middeneaht midderneaht middelniht 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
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /ˈmɪdnʌɪt/ Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /ˈmɪdˌnaɪt/ Hyphenation: mid‧night
Noun
midnight (countable and uncountable plural midnights
( obsolete ) middle of the night : the sixth temporal hour , equidistant between sunset and sunrise .12 o'clock at night exactly .
Alfred Noyes The Highwayman :
"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!
Synonyms
( 12 o'clock at night ) : 12 am ; 00:00, 12 a.m. (sometimes proscribed), 12 midnight
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
middle of the night
Cebuano: sayo-buntag kadlawon
Finnish: keskiyö (fi)
Galician: medianoite f
Gujarati: મધરાત ( madhrāt ) , મધ્યરાત્રિ ( madhyarātri )
Hindi: आधी रात f ( ādhī rāt ) , आधीरात (hi) f ( ādhīrāt ) , अधरात (hi) f ( adhrāt ) , मध्यरात (hi) f ( madhyarāt ) , मध्यरात्रि (hi) f ( madhyarātri )
Japanese: 夜中 (ja) ( yonaka ) , 真夜中 (ja) ( mayonaka ) , 夜半 (ja) ( yahan )
Karok: ikxarám'aachip
Korean: 한밤중 (ko) ( hanbamjung )
Latin: media nox intempestum n
Maori: waenganui pō tūruawē pō
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Old English: midniht middaneaht
Old French: mie nuit f
Southern Ohlone: orpehuas ershe
Spanish: medianoche (es) f madrugada (es) f
Tagalog: madaling-araw (tl)
Turkish: gece yarısı (tr)
Zazaki: nimsew
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 )
Asturian: medianueche m
Aymara: chika aruma
Azerbaijani: gecə yarısı
Bambara: dugutila
Bashkir: төн уртаһы ( tön urtahı ) , ярты төн ( yartı tön )
Basque: gauerdi
Belarusian: по́ўнач f ( póŭnač )
Bengali: মধ্যরাত ( moddhorat )
Bislama: medelnaet
Breton: hanternoz (br) m kreiznoz (br)
Brunei Malay: tangah malam
Bulgarian: полунощ (bg) f ( polunošt )
Burmese: သန်းခေါင် (my) ( san:hkaung )
Catalan: mitjanit (ca) f
Cebuano: tunganggabii
Chamicuro: shawalasko
Chamorro: tatalo' puengi
Chechen: буьйсанан юкъ ( büüsanan juqʼ )
Cherokee: ᏒᏃᏱ ( svnoyi )
Cheyenne: -sétôhtaa'eve
Chichewa: pakati pa usiku
Chinese:
Mandarin: 半夜 (zh) ( bànyè ) , 子夜 (zh) ( zǐyè ) , 午夜 (zh) ( wǔyè )
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 ( peľeve )
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: חצות הלילה (he) f חצות (he) f
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 ( biı̇san juqʼ )
Interlingua: medienocte
Interlingue: Lua error in Module:translations at line 71 : Translations must be for attested and approved main-namespace languages.
Irish: meán oíche f
Istriot: miezanuotto
Italian: mezzanotte (it) f
Japanese: 午前0時 ( gozen reiji ) , 真夜中 (ja) ( mayonaka ) , 正子 ( 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 ( jarym tün ) , түн ортасы (kk) ( tün ortasy )
Khakas: орты хараа ( ortı xaraa )
Khmer: អធ្រាត្រ (km) ( a’triet )
Komi-Zyrian: вой шӧр ( voj šör )
Korean: 자정 (ko) ( jajeong )
Kurdish:
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Ladin: medanuote f
Lao: ທຽງຄືນ ( thīang khư̄n )
Latgalian: pušnakts f
Latin: media nox f intempestum n
Latvian: pusnakts m
Limburgish: middernach
Lithuanian: vidurnaktis m
Lombard: mezzanott f ( Milanese dialect )
Low German:
German Low German: Middernacht f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Luganda: wakati muttumbi
Luxembourgish: Mëtternuecht f Hallefnuecht (lb) f
Macedonian: полноќ f ( polnoḱ )
Malagasy: mamatonalina (mg)
Malay: tengah malam
Malayalam: അർദ്ധരാത്രി ( aṟddharātri )
Maltese: nofsillejl
Manx: mean oie
Maori: weherua weherua pō
Marathi: मध्यरात्र ( madhyarātra )
Mari:
Eastern Mari: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "chm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Western Mari: йыдпел ( jydpel )
Megleno-Romanian: pónoş
Mirandese: meia nuite f
Moksha: пялеве ( päľeve ) , векучка ( vekučka )
Mongolian: шөнө дунд ( šönö 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
Persian: نیمه شب (fa)
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 ( mezul nopții )
Romansch: mesanotg f
Russian: по́лночь (ru) f ( pólnočʹ )
Rwanda-Rundi: igicuku class 7 /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:
Cyrillic: төн уртасы ( tön urtası )
Roman: 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 ( talw° )
Turkish: gece yarısı (tr)
Turkmen: ýary gije
Udmurt: уйшор ( ujšor )
Ukrainian: пі́вніч (uk) f ( pívnič )
Urdu: آدھی رات f ( ādhī rāt )
Uyghur: yérim kéche
Uzbek: yarim kecha yarim tun
Venetian: mezanote f
Veps: keskö pol’ö
Vietnamese: nửa đêm (vi)
Vilamovian: mytułnaocht
Volapük: zeneit (vo)
Võro: kesküü
Walloon: mèye-nut'
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
midnight (not comparable )
( poetic ) dark or black .
2013 Ravenswynd Legends , page 143 :Free and falling, his midnight hair flowed out all around us like a silk canopy.
See also
