nightfall

English

Etymology

night +‎ fall

Pronunciation

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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

Derived terms

• night-falling

Related terms

• smokefall

Translations

the close of the day; the coming of night

• Arabic: هُبُوط m (hubūṭ), لَيْل m (layl)
• Catalan: capvespre (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: soumrak (cs) m
• Danish: skumring (da), mørkets frembrud
• Dutch: avondschemering (nl), avondval, nachtval, valavond
• Estonian: videvik
• Finnish: iltahämärä (fi), illansuu
• French: tombée de la nuit (fr) f
• German: Einbruch der Nacht m, Einbruch der Dunkelheit m, Zwielicht (de) n
• Greek: σούρουπο (el) (soúroupo), νύχτωμα (el) (nýchtoma)
• Hungarian: alkony (hu)
• Icelandic: rökkurbil, ljósaskipti (is), næturkoma, nótt (is) f
• Indonesian: senjakala
• Italian: crepuscolo (it) m
• Japanese: 日暮 (ja) (ひぐれ, higure)
• Karachay-Balkar: ашхам (aşham)
• Korean: 해질녘 (haejillyeok), 황혼 (ko) (hwanghon)
• Latin: annoctatio f
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• Latvian: krēsla; tumsas iestāšanās
• Lithuanian: sutema, prieblanda
• Manx: beeal ny hoie m
• Maori: pōnga
• Norwegian: mørkets frambrudd, skumring (no) m
• Old Norse: dagsetr n
• Persian: شبانگاه (fa)
• Polish: zmrok (pl) m, zmierzch (pl) m
• Portuguese: anoitecer (pt) m, crepúsculo (pt) m, lusco-fusco (pt) 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
• Turkish: akşam karanlığı (tr), akşam vakti
• Vietnamese: chạng vạng (vi)
• Walloon: anuti (wa) m
• Welsh: cyfnos (cy) m, hwyr (cy) m, hwyrnos f