polar night

English

Noun

polar night (plural polar nights)

1. A period of continual darkness that occurs in winter in the polar regions of Earth, during which the sun never rises above the horizon.

Translations

period of darkness

• Arabic: اللَيْل القُطْبِيّ m (al-layl al-quṭbiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 極夜 / 极夜 (zh) (jíyè), 永夜 (zh) (yǒngyè) (Taiwan)

• Dutch: poolnacht (nl) f
• Finnish: kaamos (fi)
• French: nuit polaire (fr) f
• German: Polarnacht (de) f
• Icelandic: heimskautanótt (is) f, heimskautsnótt (is) f
• Ingrian: poljarnoi öö
• Italian: notte polare f
• Japanese: 極夜 (ja) (kyokuya)
• Korean: 극야 (ko) (geugya)
• Norwegian: mørketid, polarnatt
• Polish: noc polarna f
• Romanian: noapte polară (ro) f
• Russian: поля́рная ночь f (poljárnaja nočʹ)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: skammâ

  Northern Sami: skábma, sevdnjesáigi

  Skolt Sami: skamm

• Spanish: noche polar f
• Swedish: polarnatt c

See also

• midnight sun