night blindness

English

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Noun

night blindness (countable and uncountable, plural night blindnesses)

1. The optic condition nyctalopia, the inability to see clearly in faint light, as at night.

   Synonym: moon blindness

Derived terms

• night-blind

Translations

nyctalopia; the inability to see clearly in faint light

• Bulgarian: кокоша слепота f (kokoša slepota)
• Catalan: hemeralopia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夜盲 (zh) (yèmáng)

• Czech: šeroslepost f
• Dutch: nachtblindheid (nl)
• Estonian: kanapimedus
• Finnish: hämäräsokeus (fi)
• French: héméralopie (fr) f, cécité nocturne (fr) f
• German: Nachtblindheit f
• Gujarati: રતાંધળાપણું (ratāndhaḷāpaṇū̃)
• Hindi: रतौंधी (hi) (rataundhī)
• Hungarian: farkasvakság (hu), éjszakai vakság
• Indonesian: buta senja, buta ayam (id)
• Irish: daille oíche f
• Italian: emeralopia f
• Korean: 야맹증(夜盲症) (ko) (yamaengjeung)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şevkorî (ku)

• Malay: bilar (ms), rabun ayam (ms)
• Malayalam: നിശാന്ധത (niśāndhata)
• Portuguese: cegueira noturna f
• Romanian: nictalopie (ro), cecitate nocturnă (ro) f
• Russian: кури́ная слепота́ (ru) f (kurínaja slepotá), никтало́пия (ru) f (niktalópija)
• Spanish: ceguera nocturna f, hemeralopía f
• Swedish: nattblindhet (sv)
• Tamil: மாலைக்கண் (ta) (mālaikkaṇ)
• Telugu: రేచీకటి (te) (rēcīkaṭi)
• Turkish: tavukkarası (tr), gece körlüğü
• Vietnamese: quáng gà (vi)