skylight

English

Oculus in ceiling of the Pantheon in Rome (Italy) (sense 1)

Sense 2

Etymology

From sky +‎ light.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskaɪˌlaɪt/

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• Hyphenation: sky‧light

Noun

skylight (plural skylights)

2. (architecture) A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.

   Synonym: oculus

4. (physics) Diffuse sky radiation—solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere.
5. (volcanology) A hole in the upper part of a lava tube, yielding a view of the lava within.
6. A region of flat, thin ice allowing a submarine to surface.

Hypernyms

• light

Translations

window dome or opening in the roof

• Armenian: երդիկ (hy) (erdik)
• Bulgarian: тавански прозорец (tavanski prozorec)
• Catalan: claraboia (ca), lluerna (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天窗 (zh) (tiānchuāng)

• Danish: tagvindue (da)
• Dutch: zonnedak (nl) n, koepel (nl) m
• Finnish: kattoikkuna (fi) (window); kattokupu, kattovalokupu (dome); valoaukko (opening)
• French: fenêtre de toit (fr) f, lucarne (fr) f, vélux (fr) m, verrière (fr) f
• Galician: bufarda (gl) f, claraboia f
• German: Dachluke (de) f, Dachfenster (de) n, Dachflächenfenster n
• Hebrew: צֹהַר (he) m (tsohar)
• Hungarian: tetőablak (hu)
• Irish: spéirléas m, forléas m, fuinneog dhín f
• Italian: lucernario (it) m
• Japanese: 天窓 (ja) (てんまど, tenmado)
• Korean: 채광창(採光窓) (chaegwangchang)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: takvindu n

• Polish: świetlik (pl) m
• Portuguese: claraboia (pt)
• Romanian: lucarnă (ro), luminator (ro) n
• Russian: светово́й люк m (svetovój ljuk)
• Scottish Gaelic: leòsan-adhair m
• Serbo-Croatian: svetlarnik m, krovni ptozor m
• Spanish: tragaluz (es) m, claraboya (es) f, celaje (es) m
• Swedish: ljusöppning c, takfönster (sv), taklucka (sv) c
• Tagalog: luneto
• Turkish: aydınlık (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎗𐎁𐎚 (ủrbt)
• Volapük: nufalitöp
• Welsh: ffenestr do f

solar radiation

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: auringon hajasäteily
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

hole in a lava tube

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: laavatunnelin aukko
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References

• skylight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Swedish

Alternative forms

• skejlejt (dated)
• skalejt (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from English skylight. First attested in 1840.

Noun

skylight n

1. (nautical) a skylight in a ship's deck

Declension

Declension of skylight

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	skylight	skylights
	definite	skylightet	skylightets
plural	indefinite	skylight	skylights
	definite	skylighten	skylightens

See also

• soltak
• takfönster
• taklucka

References

• skylight in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skylight in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• skylight in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)