sunlight

English

Sunlight (1)

Etymology

From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun +‎ light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnlaɪt
• Hyphenation: sun‧light

Noun

sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)

1. All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.

   Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.

   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2. (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
3. Synonym of sunrise.

Synonyms

• (light from the sun): daylight, sun, sunshine
• (brightness): hope, optimism
• (sunrise): break of day, first light, sunup; see also Thesaurus:dawn

Hypernyms

• light

Derived terms

• Port Sunlight
• sunlight is the best disinfectant

Related terms

• sunbeam

Translations

electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun

• Bengali: রোদ (bn) (rōd), রোদ্দুর (rōddur), আফতাব (bn) (aphtab)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陽光／阳光 (joeng⁴ gwong¹), 日光 (jat⁶ gwong¹), 太陽光／太阳光 (taai³ joeng⁴ gwong¹)

  Hakka: 日光 (ngit-kông), 日頭絲／日头丝 (ngit-thèu-sî)

  Mandarin: 陽光／阳光 (zh) (yángguāng), 日光 (zh) (rìguāng), 太陽光／太阳光 (zh) (tàiyángguāng)

  Min Nan: 日光 (zh-min-nan) (ji̍t-kng, li̍t-kng, ji̍t-kuiⁿ)

• Dutch: zonlicht (nl)
• Eastern Bontoc: omorkiw
• Egyptian: (jꜣḫw)
• Esperanto: sunlumo
• Finnish: auringonvalo (fi)
• French: lumière du soleil f
• German: Sonnenlicht (de) n
• Hungarian: napfény (hu)
• Icelandic: sólarljós (is) n
• Ilocano: raniag ti init
• Japanese: 日光 (ja) (にっこう, nikkō), 太陽光 (たいようこう, taiyōkō)
• Korean: 햇빛 (ko) (haetbit)
• Latin: sol (la) m, solis lumen n
• Macedonian: сончевина f (sončevina), сончева светлина f (sončeva svetlina)
• Malay: cahaya matahari (ms)
• Navajo: sháńdíín
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sollys (no) n

  Nynorsk: solljos n, sollys n

• Old English: sunnan lēoma m, sunnan lēoht n
• Plautdietsch: Sonnenlicht n
• Polish: światło słoneczne n
• Portuguese: luz do sol f
• Romanian: lumina soarelui f
• Russian: со́лнечный свет m (sólnečnyj svet)
• Sanskrit: आतप (sa) m (ātapa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сунчева светлост f, сунчева свјетлост f

  Roman: sunčeva svetlost f, sunčeva svjetlost f

• Spanish: luz del sol f
• Swedish: solljus (sv) n
• Tagalog: liwanag ng araw
• Thai: แดด (th) (dɛ̀ɛt)
• Tok Pisin: lait bilong san
• Turkish: güneş ışığı (tr)
• Vietnamese: ánh nắng, ánh sáng mặt trời
• Welsh: heulwen (cy) f

brightness, hope, a positive outlook

• Bengali: আশার আলো (aśar alō)
• Finnish: auringonpaiste (fi)
• German: Licht (de) n
• Hungarian: napfény (hu)
• Japanese: 光 (ja) (ひかり, hikari)
• Polish: światło (pl) n
• Turkish: ışık (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} شەوق‎ (şewq), ^{(please verify)} تشکی خۆر‎ (tişkî xor)

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ఎండ (te) (eṇḍa)

Verb

sunlight (third-person singular simple present sunlights, present participle sunlighting, simple past and past participle sunlighted)

1. To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.

References

• sunlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• hustling, unlights