English
Etymology
From solar + eclipse. First use appears c. 1602 in the writings of Thomas Blundeville.
Pronunciation
Noun
solar eclipse (plural solar eclipses)
- (astronomy) A phenomenon occurring when the Moon passes between the Earth and the sun.
A solar eclipse is one of nature's most impressive sights.
2017, Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, “Ancient Efforts to Understand”, in Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:The earliest reliable accounts of Chinese eclipses come from Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch’un-ch’iu), recording eclipses from 772 to 481 BCE, including a total solar eclipse in 709 BCE.
Translations
when the Moon passes between the Earth and the sun
- Afrikaans: sonsverduistering
- Arabic: كُسُوف اَلشَّمْس (ar) m (kusūf aš-šams)
- Armenian: արեգակի խավարում (aregaki xavarum)
- Azerbaijani: günəşin tutulması
- Basque: eguzki eklipse
- Belarusian: сонечнае зацьменне n (sónječnaje zacʹmjennje)
- Bengali: সূর্যগ্রহণ (bn) (śurjogrohon), কুসূফে আফতাব (kusūfe aftab)
- Bikol Central: pagkulop nin saldang
- Bulgarian: слънчево затъмнение n (slǎnčevo zatǎmnenie)
- Catalan: eclipsi solar m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 日食 (jat6 sik6), 天狗食日 (tin1 gau2 sik6 jat6)
- Mandarin: 日食 (zh) (rìshí), 日蝕 / 日蚀 (zh) (rìshí)
- Crimean Tatar: küneş tutuluvı
- Czech: zatmění slunce n
- Danish: solformørkelse (da) c
- Dutch: zonsverduistering (nl) f
- Esperanto: suna eklipso (eo)
- Estonian: väikesevarjutus
- Faroese: sólarmyrking f
- Finnish: auringonpimennys (fi)
- French: éclipse solaire (fr) f
- Galician: eclipse solar m
- Georgian: მზის დაბნელება (mzis dabneleba)
- German: Sonnenfinsternis (de) f
- Greek: έκλειψη ηλίου f (ékleipsi ilíou)
- Hebrew: ליקוי חמה (he) m (likúi khamá)
- Hindi: सूर्यग्रहण (hi) (sūryagrahaṇ)
- Hungarian: napfogyatkozás (hu)
- Icelandic: sólmyrkvi (is) m
- Indonesian: gerhana matahari (id) m
- Inuktitut: ᓯᕿᓃᖅᓯᖅᑐᖅ (siqiniiqsiqtoq)
- Italian: eclisse solare f, eclissi solare f
- Japanese: 日食 (ja) (にっしょく, nisshoku)
- Japhug: ʁmbɣɯzɯn
- Kazakh: күннің тұтылуы (künnıñ tūtyluy)
- Korean: 일식(日蝕) (ko) (ilsik), 일식(日食) (ko) (ilsik)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: خۆرگیران (xorgîran)
- Latvian: saules aptumsums m
- Lithuanian: saulės užtemimas m
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: zunsverduustering n (New Saxon Spelling: sünsverdüüstering n)
- German Low German: Sünnverdüüstern n, Sünnendüüsternis n (New Saxon Spelling: sünverdüüstering n, sündüüsternisse n)
- Malay: gerhana matahari (ms)
- Manchu: ᡧᡠᠨ
ᠵᡝᠮᠪᡳ (šun jembi)
- Mongolian: нар хиртэлт (mn) (nar xirtelt)
- Navajo: ałneʼííʼáázh, jóhonaaʼéí daaztsą́
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: solformørkelse m
- Nynorsk: solformørking f, solmørking f
- Old English: sunnan āsprungennes f
- Persian: خورشیدگرفتگی, کسوف (fa)
- Polish: zaćmienie Słońca n
- Portuguese: eclipse solar (pt) m, solcris m
- Romanian: eclipsă solară f, eclipsă de Soare f
- Russian: со́лнечное затме́ние (ru) n (sólnečnoje zatménije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: помрчниа Сунца f (Croatia), помрачење Сунца f (Bosnia, Serbia)
- Roman: pomrčina Sunca f (Croatia), pomačenje Sunca f (Bosnia, Serbia)
- Slovak: zatmenie Slnka n
- Slovene: sončev mrk (sl) m
- Spanish: eclipse solar (es) m
- Swahili: kupatwa kwa jua
- Swedish: solförmörkelse (sv) c
- Telugu: సూర్య గ్రహణము (te) (sūrya grahaṇamu)
- Thai: สุริยคราส (sù-rí-yá-krâat)
- Turkish: Güneş tutulması (tr)
- Ukrainian: Сонячне затемнення f (Sonjačne zatemnennja)
- Vietnamese: nhật thực (vi) (日食)
- West Frisian: sinnefertsjustering
- Yakut: күн өлүүтэ (kün ölüüte)
- Yucatec Maya: chiʼibal kʼiin
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