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English A lighthouse Aerial footage of a lighthouse.
Etymology From light house
Pronunciation
Noun lighthouse (plural lighthouses
A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors .
Alternative form: light house Synonyms: obeliscolychny ( rare ) , phare Hypernyms: house building light ( synecdochally hypernymous ) ; aid Coordinate terms: light buoy lightboat lightship lightvessel
Derived terms
Translations building containing a light to warn or guide ships
Afrikaans: vuurtoring (af) , ligtoring
Albanian: far m fanar (sq) m
Arabic: مَنَارَة (ar) f ( manāra ) , مَنَار m ( manār ) , فَنَار m ( fanār )
Egyptian Arabic: منارة f ( manāra ) , فنار m ( fanār )
Hijazi Arabic: مَنارة f ( manāra )
Armenian: փարոս (hy) ( pʻaros )
Asturian: faru m
Azerbaijani: mayak (az) , dəniz fənəri
Basque: itsasargi
Belarusian: мая́к m ( maják )
Bengali: বাতিঘর (bn) ( batighor )
Breton: tour-tan (br)
Bulgarian: фар (bg) m ( far )
Burmese: မီးပြတိုက် (my) ( mi:pra.tuik )
Catalan: far (ca) m
Central Dusun: walai-tapuy
Chechen: маяк ( majak )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 燈塔 / 灯塔 ( dang1 taap3 )
Dungan: дынтэ ( dɨnte )
Hokkien: 燈塔 / 灯塔 (zh-min-nan) ( teng-thah )
Mandarin: 燈塔 / 灯塔 (zh) ( dēngtǎ ) , 岸標 / 岸标 (zh) ( ànbiāo )
Cornish: golowji
Czech: maják (cs) m
Danish: fyr (da) n fyrtårn (da) n
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: vuurtoren (nl) m
Esperanto: lumturo
Estonian: tuletorn majakas
Faroese: viti m
Finnish: majakka (fi)
French: phare (fr) m
Gagauz: fener
Galician: faro (gl) m
Georgian: შუქურა (ka) ( šukura )
German: Leuchtturm (de) m Alemannic German: Lüüchtturm m
Greek: φάρος (el) m ( fáros )
Ancient: φρυκτώριον n ( phruktṓrion )
Greenlandic: naaralaartitsivik
Gujarati: દીવાદાંડી f ( dīvādā̃ḍī )
Hawaiian: hale ipukukui
Hebrew: מִגדַלוֹר (he) m ( migdalór )
Hindi: रोशनीघर m ( rośnīghar ) , दीपगृह ( dīpgŕh ) , प्रकाशस्तंभ m ( prakāśastambh )
Hungarian: világítótorony (hu)
Icelandic: viti (is) m vitaturn (is) m
Ido: faro (io)
Indonesian: mercusuar (id) , menara api (id)
Interlingua: pharo
Irish: teach solais m
Italian: faro (it) m
Japanese: 灯台 (ja) ( とうだい, tōdai )
Kannada: ಕಡಲಬೆಳಕು (kn) ( kaḍalabeḷaku )
Kashubian: bliza f latarniô f
Kazakh: шамшырақ ( şamşyraq ) , маяк ( maäk )
Khmer: សើន (km) ( saən ) , ប្រទីប (km) ( prɑtiip ) , ហ្វារ (km) ( faa )
Korean: 등대(燈臺) (ko) ( deungdae )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: fanûsgeh
Kyrgyz: маяк (ky) ( mayak )
Lao: ປະພາຄານ ( pa phā khān )
Latin: pharus m
Latvian: bāka f
Lithuanian: švyturys m
Luxembourgish: Liichttuerm m Phar m
Macedonian: све́тилник m ( svétilnik ) , фар m ( far )
Malay: rumah api (ms)
Malayalam: വിളക്കുമാടം (ml) ( viḷakkumāṭaṁ )
Maltese: fanal m
Manx: thie soilshee m thie sollysh m
Maori: whare rama whare tūrama
Marathi: दीपस्तंभ (mr) ( dīpastambha )
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гэрэлт цамхаг ( gerelt camxag )
Nepali: प्रकाशस्तम्भ ( prakāśastambha )
Norman: veue f
Northern Sami: čuovgatoardna
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fyr (no) n fyrtårn (no) n
Occitan: far (oc)
Old English: fȳrtorr m
Ottoman Turkish: فنار ( fenar, fener )
Persian: فانوس دریایی (fa) ( fânus-e daryâyi )
Plautdietsch: Lichttorm m
Polish: latarnia morska (pl) f
Portuguese: farol (pt) m
Romanian: far (ro) n
Russian: мая́к (ru) m ( maják )
Sanskrit: दीपस्तंभ ( dīpastaṃbha )
Scottish Gaelic: taigh-solais m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: светио̀нӣк m свјетио̀нӣк m светиља f
Roman: svetiònīk m svjetiònīk (sh) m svetilja f
Sinhalese: ප්රදීපාගාරය ( pradīpāgāraya ) , ප්රදීපාගාරය ( pradīpāgāraya )
Slovak: maják (sk) m
Slovene: svetilnik (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: swěśak m swětlak m
Upper Sorbian: swětłownja f
Spanish: faro (es) m
Swahili: mnara wa taa
Swedish: fyr (sv) c fyrtorn (sv) n
Tagalog: parola (tl)
Tajik: мино ( mino ) , минои баҳрӣ ( mino-yi bahri ) , маяк (tg) ( mayak ) , фонуси дарёӣ ( fonus-i daryoyi )
Tamil: கலங்கரைவிளக்கம் (ta) ( kalaṅkaraiviḷakkam )
Tatar: маяк ( mayak )
Telugu: దీపస్తంభం (te) ( dīpastambhaṁ )
Tetum: farol
Thai: ประภาคาร (th) ( bprà-paa-kaan ) , กระโจมไฟ (th) ( grà-joom-fai ) , เรือนตะเกียง (th) ( rʉʉan-dtà-giiang ) , เรือนไฟ (th) ( rʉʉan-fai )
Tigrinya: መናራ ( mänara )
Turkish: fener (tr) , fener kulesi deniz feneri (tr)
Turkmen: maýak
Ukrainian: мая́к (uk) m ( maják )
Urdu: منارہ ( manāra ) , روشنی گھر m ( rośanī ghar )
Uyghur: ماياك ( mayak )
Uzbek: mayak (uz)
Veps: majak
Vietnamese: hải đăng (vi)
Volapük: far (vo)
Welsh: goleudy m
West Frisian: fjoertoer c
Yiddish: לײַכטטורעם m ( laykhtturem )
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