nightfall

See also: night-fall

English

Alternative forms

• night-fall (archaic)

Etymology

From night +‎ fall. Cf. dewfall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪt.fɔl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪt.fɑl/
• (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /niːt.fɑːl/

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Noun

nightfall (countable and uncountable, plural nightfalls)

1. The close of the day; the coming of night.

   Synonyms: dusk, evening, sundown, sunset; see also Thesaurus:dusk

   at nightfall

2. Nocturnal emission.

Usage notes

The time of nightfall varies throughout the year, except near the equator.

Derived terms

• night-falling

Related terms

• darkfall
• smokefall

Translations

the close of the day; the coming of night

• Ahtna: xeł
• Arabic: هُبُوط m (hubūṭ), غَسَق m (ḡasaq), لَيْل (ar) m (layl), عِشَاء f (ʕišāʔ), غُرُوب m (ḡurūb)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: sinarom (bcl)

• Bulgarian: свечеряване n (svečerjavane), смрачаване n (smračavane)
• Catalan: capvespre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃昏 / 黄昏 (zh) (huánghūn), 薄暮 (zh) (bómù) (twilight)

• Czech: soumrak (cs) m
• Danish: skumring (da), mørkets frembrud
• Dutch: avondschemering (nl), avondval, nachtval, valavond (nl)
• Estonian: videvik (et)
• Finnish: iltahämärä (fi), illansuu, illan siimes
• French: tombée de la nuit (fr) f
• Galician: anoitecer (gl) m, luscofusco m, crepúsculo (gl) m
• German: Einbruch der Nacht m, Einbruch der Dunkelheit m, Zwielicht (de) n
• Greek: σούρουπο (el) (soúroupo), νύχτωμα (el) (nýchtoma)
• Hindi: साँझ (hi) f (sāñjh)
• Hungarian: alkony (hu), alkonyat (hu), sötétedés (hu)
• Icelandic: rökkurbil, ljósaskipti (is), næturkoma, nótt (is) f
• Indonesian: senjakala
• Ingrian: iltain
• Italian: crepuscolo (it) m
• Japanese: 日暮 (ja) (ひぐれ, higure)
• Karachay-Balkar: ашхам (aşxam)
• Korean: 해질녘 (haejillyeok), 황혼 (ko) (hwanghon)
• Latin: annoctatio f
• Latvian: krēsla (lv), tumsas iestāšanās
• Lithuanian: sutema, prieblanda
• Manx: beeal ny hoie m
• Māori: pōnga
• Norwegian: mørkets frambrudd, skumring (no) m
• Old Norse: dagsetr n
• Persian: شبانگاه (fa)
• Polish: zmrok (pl) m inan, zmierzch (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: anoitecer (pt) m, crepúsculo (pt) m, lusco-fusco (pt) m
• Romagnol: imbrunìr m
• Romanian: căderea serii f, înserare (ro) f, amurg (ro) n, venirea nopții f, căderea nopții f, înnoptare (ro) f
• Russian: наступле́ние но́чи n (nastuplénije nóči), су́мерки (ru) f pl (súmerki)
• Sindhi: ِسَنجھا f (sanjhā)
• Slovak: súmrak m
• Slovene: mrak (sl) m
• Spanish: anochecer (es) m
• Swedish: kvällning (sv), nattens (mörkrets) inbrott
• Tagalog: takipsilim (tl)
• Turkish: akşam karanlığı (tr), akşam vakti
• Vietnamese: chạng vạng (vi)
• Walloon: anuti (wa) m
• Welsh: cyfnos (cy) m, hwyr (cy) m, hwyrnos f