English
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, fanal (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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