sunlight

English

Sunlight (1)

Etymology

From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun +‎ light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌnlaɪt
• Hyphenation: sun‧light

Noun

sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)

2. All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.

   Hypernyms: starlight (broad sense only) < natural light < light < EMR, electromagnetic radiation < radiation < energy

   Meronym: sunbeams

   Coordinate terms: starlight (usual idiomatic sense), moonlight

   Near-synonym: daylight

   Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.

   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

   • 2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars‎^[1]:

     Instead of using unpolarized sunlight as my light source and then filtering it with a polarizer, I can just use my screen as a source of polarized light.

4. (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.

   Synonyms: sunshine, sunniness

6. Synonym of sunrise.

   Synonyms: daylight, daybreak, dayspring, dawn; see also Thesaurus:dawn

7. (attributive) Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).

   sunlight zone

Synonyms

• (light from the sun): daylight, sun, sunshine
• (brightness): hope, optimism
• (sunrise): break of day, first light, sunup; see also Thesaurus:dawn

Derived terms

• Port Sunlight
• synchro-sunlight
• sunlight is the best disinfectant

Related terms

• sunbeam

Translations

electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun — see also sunshine,‎ daylight

• Arabic: ضَوْء شَمْس m (ḍawʔ šams), نُور شَمْس m (nūr šams)
• Belarusian: со́нечнае святло́ n (sónječnaje svjatló), со́нечнае сьвятло́ n (sónječnaje sʹvjatló)
• Bengali: রোদ (bn) (rōd), রোদ্দুর (bn) (rōddur), আফতাব (bn) (aphtab)
• Bontoc:

  Eastern Bontoc: omorkiw

• Bulgarian: слъ́нчева светлина́ f (slǎ́nčeva svetliná)
• Burmese: နေရောင်ခြည် (neraunghkrany)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陽光 / 阳光 (joeng⁴ gwong¹), 日光 (jat⁶ gwong¹), 太陽光 / 太阳光 (taai³ joeng⁴ gwong¹)

  Hakka: 日光 (ngit-kông), 日頭絲 / 日头丝 (ngit-thèu-sî)

  Hokkien: 日光 (zh-min-nan) (ji̍t-kng, li̍t-kng, ji̍t-kuiⁿ)

  Mandarin: 陽光 / 阳光 (zh) (yángguāng), 日光 (zh) (rìguāng), 太陽光 / 太阳光 (zh) (tàiyángguāng)

• Czech: sluneční světlo n
• Danish: sollys (da) n
• Dutch: zonlicht (nl) n
• Egyptian: (jꜣḫw)
• Esperanto: sunlumo
• Finnish: auringonvalo (fi)
• French: lumière du soleil f
• German: Sonnenlicht (de) n
• Hindi: धूप (hi) f (dhūp)
• Hungarian: napfény (hu)
• Icelandic: sólarljós (is) n
• Ilocano: raniag ti init
• Indonesian: sinar matahari
• Italian: luce solare f
• Japanese: 日光 (ja) (にっこう, nikkō), 太陽光 (ja) (たいようこう, taiyōkō)
• Korean: 햇빛 (ko) (haetbit), 일광(日光) (ko) (ilgwang)
• Latin: sol (la) m, solis lumen n
• Macedonian: сончевина f (sončevina), сончева светлина f (sončeva svetlina)
• Malay: cahaya matahari (ms)
• Malayalam: വെയിൽ (ml) (veyil), സൂര്യപ്രകാശം (sūryaprakāśaṁ)
• Manchu: ᡶᠣᠰᠣᠨ (foson), ᡧᡠᠨ ᡳ
  ᡝᠯᡩᡝᠨ (šun-i elden)
• Navajo: sháńdíín
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sollys (no) n

  Nynorsk: solljos n, sollys n

• Old English: sunnan lēoma m, sunnan lēoht n
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: آفْتاب (âftâb), نورِ آفْتاب (nur-e âftâb), نورِ خورْشید (nur-e xoršid)

• Plautdietsch: Sonnenlicht n
• Polish: światło słoneczne n
• Portuguese: luz do sol f
• Romanian: lumina soarelui f
• Russian: со́лнечный свет m (sólnečnyj svet)
• Sanskrit: आतप (sa) m (ātapa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сунчева светлост f, сунчева свјетлост f

  Latin: sunčeva svetlost f, sunčeva svjetlost f

• Slovak: slnečné svetlo n
• Slovene: sončna svetloba f
• Spanish: luz del sol f, luz solar f
• Swahili: mwanga wa jua
• Swedish: solljus (sv) n
• Tagalog: liwanag ng araw
• Tajik: офтоб (tg) (oftob), нури офтоб (nur-i oftob)
• Tamil: வெயில் (ta) (veyil)
• Thai: แดด (th) (dɛ̀ɛt), แสงอาทิตย์ (sɛ̌ɛng-aa-tít)
• Tok Pisin: lait bilong san
• Turkish: güneş ışığı (tr)
• Ukrainian: со́нячне сві́тло n (sónjačne svítlo)
• Urdu: دُھوپ f (dhūp)
• Vietnamese: ánh nắng, ánh sáng mặt trời
• Welsh: heulwen (cy) f

brightness, hope, a positive outlook

• Belarusian: святло́ n (svjatló), сьвятло́ n (sʹvjatló)
• Bengali: আশার আলো (aśar alō)
• Finnish: auringonpaiste (fi)
• German: Licht (de) n
• Hungarian: napfény (hu)
• Japanese: 光 (ja) (ひかり, hikari)
• Polish: światło (pl) n
• Russian: свет (ru) m (svet)
• Turkish: ışık (tr)
• Ukrainian: світло́ (uk) n (svitló)

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Translations to be checked

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} شەوق (şewq), ^{(please verify)} تشکی خۆر (tişkî xor)

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ఎండ (te) (eṇḍa)

Verb

sunlight (third-person singular simple present sunlights, present participle sunlighting, simple past and past participle sunlighted)

1. To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.

References

• sunlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• hustling, unlights