English
Etymology
From waning + moon. Compare Middle English waynynge of the mone, wanynge of þe mone (literally “waning of the moon”).
Noun
waning moon (plural waning moons)
- A moon (usually the Moon, that is, Earth's moon) when it appears smaller each night as it progresses from a full moon to a new moon: a moon in any of the diminishing lunar phases.
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Translations
moon as it progresses from full moon to a new moon
- Burmese: လဆုတ် (my) (la.hcut)
- Catalan: lluna minvant
- Danish: aftagende måne
- Dutch: afnemende maan f, wanende maan f
- Finnish: vähenevä kuu, alakuu
- French: lune décroissante
- Galician: lúa minguante (gl) f, minguante m, devalo m, lúa vella (gl) f, cuarto minguante m
- Georgian: კლებადი მთვარე (ḳlebadi mtvare)
- German: abnehmender Mond m
- Italian: luna calante f
- Latin: luna decrescens f, luna senescens f
- Macedonian: погибел (pogibel)
- Persian: هلال کاهنده (fa) (helâl-e kâhande)
- Portuguese: lua minguante f
- Spanish: luna menguante
- Swedish: avtagande måne
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