English
Etymology
From day + break.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪbɹeɪk/
Noun
daybreak (countable and uncountable, plural daybreaks)
- The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.
1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.
Usage notes
The time of daybreak varies throughout the year, except near the equator.
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Antonyms
Translations
dawn
- Arabic: فَجْر m (fajr), فَلَق m (falaq), صُبْح (ar) m (ṣubḥ)
- Armenian: լուսաբաց (hy) (lusabacʻ), այգաբաց (hy) (aygabacʻ), արեւածագ (hy) (arewacag)
- Aromanian: hãryii f, apiritã f, cripatã f
- Bikol Central: alagaag, umagahon
- Bulgarian: зазоряване n (zazorjavane)
- Burmese: အရုဏ်တက် (a.runtak)
- Catalan: alba (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 黎明 (zh) (límíng), 拂曉 / 拂晓 (zh) (fúxiǎo), 破曉 / 破晓 (zh) (pòxiǎo), 晨 (zh) (chén)
- Czech: úsvit (cs) m, svítání (cs) n
- Danish: daggry (da) n
- Dutch: dageraad (nl) m
- Esperanto: tagiĝo (eo)
- Finnish: aamunkoitto (fi)
- French: point du jour (fr) m
- Galician: amencer (gl), abrente (gl) m, alborada (gl) f
- Georgian: განთიადი (ka) (gantiadi), ცისკარი (cisḳari), გარიჟრაჟი (garižraži), რიჟრაჟი (rižraži), ალიონი (alioni), აისი (aisi)
- German: Tagesanbruch (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍅𐍉 f (uhtwō), 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 m (urruns)
- Greek: αυγή (el) f (avgí)
- Ancient: ὄρθρος m (órthros), ἠώς f (ēṓs)
- Hungarian: virradat (hu), hajnal (hu)
- Irish: briseadh an lae m, amhscarthanach f, camhaoir f
- Italian: alba (it) f
- Japanese: 夜明け (ja) (よあけ, yoake), 黎明 (ja) (れいめい, reimei)
- Latin: aurora (la) m, dīlūculum n, gallicinium n
- Lithuanian: aušra (lt) f
- Macedonian: зо́ра f (zóra)
- Maori: ata pongipongi, aoatea, ata hāpara, hāpara, haeata, puata, maruata, ata pūao
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grytidlig (at daybreak, at the crack of dawn)
- Old English: dagung f
- Ottoman Turkish: طاك (tañ), چاك (çâk)
- Persian: سحر (fa) (sahar), پگاه (fa) (pagāh, peg~)
- Polish: świt (pl) m, brzask (pl) m
- Portuguese: amanhecer (pt) m, raiar do sol m, nascer do sol m, aurora (pt) f
- Romanian: răsărit de soare (ro) n, zori (ro), auroră (ro) f, albă f
- Russian: рассве́т (ru) m (rassvét), заря́ (ru) f (zarjá)
- Sanskrit: उषस् (sa) f (uṣas), उषा (sa) f (uṣā), ऊषा (sa) f (ūṣā), प्रभात (sa) n (prabhāta)
- Scottish Gaelic: briseadh-latha m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: праскозорје n
- Roman: praskozorje (sh) n
- Spanish: amanecer (es) m
- Swedish: gryning (sv), dagning (sv), dagbräckning (sv)
- Tagalog: bukang-liwayway (tl)
- Volapük: gödalulit, delaprim (vo)
- Welsh: gwawr (cy) f
- Yiddish: פֿאַרטאָג (yi) m (fartog)
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