oil lamp

English

Noun

oil lamp (plural oil lamps)

1. A simple vessel used to produce light continuously for a period of time from a liquid fuel source.
   • 1948 March and April, “Notes and News: Narrow-Gauge in Western Eire”, in Railway Magazine, page 129:

     The West Clare Railway is, I suppose, one of the most primitive in the whole C.I.E. system, for its coaches date entirely from 1887 to 1890, and are still lit with oil lamps.

Translations

a simple vessel used to produce light

• Arabic: مِصْبَاح زَيْتِيّ m (miṣbāḥ zaytiyy)
• Basque: kriseilu
• Belarusian: кагане́ц m (kahanjéc), але́йная ла́мпа f (aljéjnaja lámpa), але́йная ля́мпа f (aljéjnaja ljámpa)
• Bulgarian: ма́слена ла́мпа f (máslena lámpa), свети́лник (bg) m (svetílnik)
• Catalan: gresol (ca) m, llàntia (ca) f, llumenera (ca) f
• Chakma: 𑄌𑄘𑄨 (cādi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 油燈／油灯 (jau⁴ dang¹)

  Mandarin: 油燈／油灯 (zh) (yóudēng), 燈盞／灯盏 (zh) (dēngzhǎn)

• Czech: olejová lampa f
• Danish: olielampe c
• Dutch: olielamp (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: oleolampo, petrololampo
• Estonian: õlilamp
• Finnish: öljylamppu (fi), öljytuikku
• French: lampe à huile (fr) f
• Georgian: ლამპარი (lamṗari)
• German: Öllampe (de) f
• Greek: λυχνάρι (el) n (lychnári), λουσέρνα (el) f (lousérna)
• Hebrew: עֲשָׁשִׁית (he) f (ashashít)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: olajlámpa (hu), petróleumlámpa (hu)
• Italian: lampada ad olio f
• Japanese: 石油ランプ (せきゆランプ, sekiyu ranpu), オイルランプ (oiru ranpu)
• Kazakh: май шам (mai şam)
• Korean: 호롱 (horong), 등잔(燈盞) (ko) (deungjan), 석유 램프 (seogyu raempeu)
• Latin: lucerna f
• Latvian: eļļas lampa f
• Lithuanian: aliejinė lempa f
• Macedonian: све́тало n (svétalo), ви́дело n (vídelo), ка́ндило n (kándilo) (archaic)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oljelampe m or f

  Nynorsk: oljelampe m or f, kole f

• Ottoman Turkish: قندیل (kandil), سراج (sirac), لامپه (lampa), مصباح (mısbah)
• Persian: چراغ موشی (fa) (čerâğ-e muši)
• Polish: kaganek (pl) m
• Portuguese: lampião (pt) m, candeeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: candelă (ro) f
• Russian: копти́лка (ru) f (koptílka), ма́сляная ла́мпа f (másljanaja lámpa), кагане́ц (ru) m (kaganéc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: уља̀ница f

  Roman: uljànica (sh) f

• Slovak: olejová lampa f
• Slovene: oljenka (sl) f
• Spanish: candil (es) m
• Swedish: oljelampa c
• Tajik: чароғи равғанӣ (čaroġi ravġanī)
• Ukrainian: кагане́ць (uk) m (kahanécʹ), олі́йна ла́мпа f (olíjna lámpa)

Anagrams

• lamp-oil, oil palm, oilpalm, palm oil, palm-oil