English
Etymology
From night + fall. Cf. dewfall.
Pronunciation
Noun
nightfall (countable and uncountable, plural nightfalls)
- The close of the day; the coming of night.
- Synonyms: dusk, evening, sundown, sunset; see also Thesaurus:dusk
at nightfall
- Nocturnal emission.
Usage notes
The time of nightfall varies throughout the year, except near the equator.
Derived terms
Translations
the close of the day; the coming of night
- Arabic: هُبُوط m (hubūṭ), غَسَق m (ḡasaq), لَيْل (ar) m (layl), عِشَاء f (ʕišāʔ), غُرُوب m (ḡurūb)
- Bikol Central: sinarom (bcl)
- Bulgarian: свечеряване n (svečerjavane), смрачаване n (smračavane)
- Catalan: capvespre (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 黃昏 / 黄昏 (zh) (huánghūn), 薄暮 (zh) (bómù) (twilight)
- Czech: soumrak (cs) m
- Danish: skumring (da), mørkets frembrud
- Dutch: avondschemering (nl), avondval, nachtval, valavond (nl)
- Estonian: videvik (et)
- Finnish: iltahämärä (fi), illansuu, illan siimes
- French: tombée de la nuit (fr) f
- Galician: anoitecer (gl) m, luscofusco m, crepúsculo (gl) m
- German: Einbruch der Nacht m, Einbruch der Dunkelheit m, Zwielicht (de) n
- Greek: σούρουπο (el) (soúroupo), νύχτωμα (el) (nýchtoma)
- Hindi: साँझ (hi) f (sāñjh)
- Hungarian: alkony (hu), alkonyat (hu), sötétedés (hu)
- Icelandic: rökkurbil, ljósaskipti (is), næturkoma, nótt (is) f
- Indonesian: senjakala
- Ingrian: iltain
- Italian: crepuscolo (it) m
- Japanese: 日暮 (ja) (ひぐれ, higure)
- Karachay-Balkar: ашхам (aşxam)
- Korean: 해질녘 (haejillyeok), 황혼 (ko) (hwanghon)
- Latin: annoctatio f
- Latvian: krēsla (lv), tumsas iestāšanās
- Lithuanian: sutema, prieblanda
- Manx: beeal ny hoie m
- Maori: pōnga
- Norwegian: mørkets frambrudd, skumring (no) m
- Old Norse: dagsetr n
- Persian: شبانگاه (fa)
- Polish: zmrok (pl) m, zmierzch (pl) m
- Portuguese: anoitecer (pt) m, crepúsculo (pt) m, lusco-fusco (pt) m
- Romagnol: imbrunìr m
- Romanian: căderea serii f, înserare (ro) f, amurg (ro) n, venirea nopții f, căderea nopții f, înnoptare (ro) f
- Russian: наступле́ние но́чи n (nastuplénije nóči), су́мерки (ru) f pl (súmerki)
- Sindhi: ِسَنجھا f (sanjhā)
- Slovak: súmrak m
- Slovene: mrak (sl) m
- Spanish: anochecer (es) m
- Swedish: kvällning (sv), nattens (mörkrets) inbrott
- Tagalog: takipsilim (tl)
- Turkish: akşam karanlığı (tr), akşam vakti
- Vietnamese: chạng vạng (vi)
- Walloon: anuti (wa) m
- Welsh: cyfnos (cy) m, hwyr (cy) m, hwyrnos f
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