sundial

English

Etymology

sun +‎ dial

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌdaɪ.əl/

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Noun

sundial (plural sundials)

1. A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there.
     "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

Hyponyms

• (on churches): mass dial, tide dial, scratch dial

Translations

device noting the time of day by the position of a shadow

• Afrikaans: sonwyzer
• Albanian: orë diellore
• Arabic: مِزْوَلَة‎ (mizwala)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: արեւի ժամացույց (arewi žamacʿuycʿ)
• Asturian: reló de Sol m
• Azerbaijani: günəş saatı
• Basque: eguzki erloju
• Belarusian: со́нечныя гадзі́ны f pl (sónječnyja hadzíny)
• Bengali: সূর্যঘড়ি (śurjôghṛi)
• Breton: horolaj-heol m
• Bulgarian: слъ́нчев часо́вник m (slǎ́nčev časóvnik)
• Burmese: နေ နာရီ c (ne nari)
• Catalan: rellotge de sol m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日晷 (zh) (rìguǐ), 日規 (zh), 日规 (zh) (rìguī)

• Czech: sluneční hodiny (cs) f pl
• Danish: solur (da) n
• Dutch: zonnewijzer (nl) m
• Esperanto: sunhorloĝo
• Estonian: päikesekell
• Faroese: sólur n
• Finnish: aurinkokello (fi)
• French: cadran solaire (fr) m
• Galician: reloxo de sol (gl) m
• Georgian: მზის საათი (mzis saati)
• German: Sonnenuhr (de) f
• Greek: ηλιακό ρολόι (el) n (iliakó rolói)
• Hebrew: שעון שמש‎ (he) m (sh'ón shémesh)
• Hindi: सौर घड़ी f (saur ghaṛī)
• Hungarian: napóra (hu)
• Icelandic: sólúr n
• Ido: sunohorlojo (io)
• Indonesian: jam matahari
• Irish: clog gréine m
• Italian: meridiana (it) f, orologio solare, gnomone (it) m, eliotropio (it) m
• Japanese: 日時計 (ひどけい, 日時計, hidokei)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: күн сағаттары (kün sağattarı)
• Khmer: នាឡិកាព្រះអាទិត្យ (niele’kaa preah aatɨt)

• Korean: 해시계 (haesigye)
• Latin: sōlārium hōrologium n, sōlārium (la) n
• Latvian: saules pulkstenis m
• Lithuanian: saulės laikrodis m
• Macedonian: сончев часовник m (sončev časovnik)
• Malay: jam matahari
• Malayalam: സൂര്യഘടികാരം (ml) (sūryaghaṭikāraṃ)
• Maori: karaka ātārangi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: solur n

  Nynorsk: solur n

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: sōlmerca m, dæġmǣl
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: ساعت آفتابی‎ (fa) (sâ'at-e âftâbi)
• Plautdietsch: Sonnenklock f
• Polish: zegar słoneczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: relógio de sol (pt) m, relógio do sol m, relógio solar (pt) m, solário (pt) m
• Romanian: ceas solar (ro) n, cadran solar (ro) n
• Russian: со́лнечные часы́ (ru) m pl (sólnečnyje časý)
• Scottish Gaelic: uaireadair-grèine m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сунчаник m, сунчани сат m (Croatia), сунчани часовник m (Bosnia, Serbia)

  Roman: sunčanik (sh) m, sunčani sat m (Croatia), sunčani časovnik m (Bosnia, Serbia)

• Sicilian: miridiana f
• Slovak: slnečné hodiny f pl
• Slovene: sónčna úra (sl) f
• Spanish: reloj solar m, reloj de sol m
• Swahili: bonyeza (sw)
• Swedish: solur n
• Tagalog: oras-araw, kuwadrante
• Tamil: சூரிய மணிகாட்டி (cūriya maṇikāṭṭi)
• Telugu: నీడగడియారము (nīḍagaḍiyāramu), సూర్యఘంట (sūryaghaṇṭa)
• Thai: นาฬิกาแดด (naa-lí-gaa-dɛ̀ɛt)
• Turkish: güneş saati (tr)
• Ukrainian: со́нячний годи́нник m (sónjačnyj hodýnnyk)
• Vietnamese: đồng hồ mặt trời
• Volapük: solaglok
• Walloon: cwadran solaire
• Welsh: deial haul m

See also

• sciatheric

Anagrams

• dunsail