lamp

See also: Lamp, LAMP, and lãmp

English

A desk lamp

A halogen lamp

Etymology

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light container”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lămp, IPA^(key): /læmp/
Audio (UK) (file)
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

lamp (plural lamps)

A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:light source

Derived terms

Betty lamp
Davy lamp
headlamp
hurricane lamp
lamp-iron
lampmaker
lamp post, lamppost
lampshade
oil rain lamp
rain lamp
table lamp
taillamp, tail lamp

Descendants

Tok Pisin: lam
→ Korean: 램프 (raempeu)

Translations

device producing light

Afrikaans: lamp
Albanian: llambë (sq) f
Amharic: ፋኖስ (fanos)
Arabic: مِصْبَاح‎ (ar) m (miṣbāḥ), لَمْبَة‎ f (lamba)
Hijazi Arabic: لمبة‎ f (lamba), أبجورة‎ m (abajōra) (bedside lamp)
Armenian: լամպ (hy) (lamp)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܪܵܓ݂ܵܐ‎ m (šrāḡā), ܠܲܡܦܹܝܕܵܐ‎ m (lampēydā)
Asturian: llámpara (ast) f
Avar: чирахъ (čiraqx)
Azerbaijani: lampa (az), çıraq (az)
Belarusian: ла́мпа (be) f (lámpa), ла́мпачка f (lámpačka) (globe)
Bengali: শামা (śama), সিরাজ (bn) (siraj)
Bulgarian: ла́мпа (bg) f (lámpa)
Burmese: မီးခွက် (my) (mi:hkwak)
Catalan: làmpada (ca) f, llum (ca) m
Chechen: чыркъ (čyrqʼ), чиркъ (čirqʼ)
Cherokee: ᎠᏨᏍᏗ (atsvsdi)
Chichewa: nyale
Chinese:
Cantonese: 燈, 灯 (dang¹), 電燈, 电灯 (din⁶ dang¹)
Mandarin: 燈／灯 (zh) (dēng), 電燈／电灯 (zh) (diàndēng)
Czech: lampa (cs) f
Danish: lampe (da) c
Dutch: lamp (nl) f or m
Estonian: lamp (et)
Faroese: lampa f
Finnish: valaisin (fi), lamppu (fi)
French: lampe (fr) f
Galician: lámpada f
Georgian: ლამპა (lamṗa), ნათურა (natura), ლამპარი (lamṗari), ჩირაღდანი (čiraɣdani)
German: Lampe (de) f
Greek: λάμπα (el) f (lámpa)
Gujarati: દીવો f (dīvo), લેમ્પ f (lemp)
Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה‎ (he) f (menorá)
Higaonon: solo
Hindi: चिराग़ m (cirāġ), लैंप (hi) m (laimp)
Hungarian: lámpa (hu)
Icelandic: lampi (is) m
Ido: lampo (io)
Indonesian: lampu (id)
Irish: lampa m
Italian: lampada (it) f, lampadina (it) f
Japanese: ランプ (ja) (ranpu), 明かり (ja) (あかり, akari), 灯 (ja) (とう, tō), 電灯 (ja) (でんとう, dentō)
Kalmyk: шам (sham)
Kazakh: лампа (kk) (lampa), шам (şam), шырақ (kk) (şyraq)
Khmer: ចង្កៀង (km) (cɑngkiəng)
Korean: 램프 (ko) (raempeu), 전등(電燈) (ko) (jeondeung), 등불 (deungbul)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: lampe (ku), çira (ku), gulop (ku)
Kyrgyz: лампа (lampa), шам (ky) (şam)
Lao: ໂຄມໄຟ (lo) (khōm fai)
Latvian: lampa f
Lithuanian: lempa (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Luucht (lb) f
Macedonian: ла́мпа f (lámpa), све́тилка f (svétilka)
Malay: lampu (ms)
Malayalam: വിളക്ക് (ml) (viḷakkŭ)
Maltese: lampa (mt) f, musbieħ m
Manchu: ᡩᡝᠩ (deng), ᡩᡝᠩᠵᠠᠨ (dengjan)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: чийдэн (mn) (čiiden), гэрэл (mn) (gerel) (light)
Nanai: ихэрэ
Norwegian: lampe (no) m or f
Ossetian: цырагъ (cyraǧ), лампӕ (lampæ)
Pashto: چراغ‎ (ps) m (čerãǧ)
Persian: لمپا‎ (fa) (lampâ), چراغ‎ (fa) (čerâğ, čarâğ), مصباح‎ (fa) (mesbâh)
Plautdietsch: Laump f
Polish: lampa (pl) f
Portuguese: luminária, lâmpada (pt)
Romanian: lampă (ro) f, lampă electrică f
Russian: ла́мпа (ru) f (lámpa), ла́мпочка (ru) f (lámpočka) (globe)
Sanskrit: केतु (sa) m (ketu)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: свѐтӣљка f, свјѐтӣљка f, ла̑мпа f
Roman: svètīljka (sh) f, svjètīljka (sh) f, lȃmpa (sh) f
Slovak: lampa (sk) f
Slovene: svetilka (sl) f
Sotho: lebone, lampi
Spanish: lámpara (es) f
Swahili: taa (sw)
Swedish: lampa (sv)
Tagalog: lampara
Tajik: чароғ (čaroġ), лампа (lampa), мисбоҳ (misboh)
Tatar: лампа (lampa)
Thai: โคมไฟ (koom-fai)
Tibetan: ཞུ་མར (zhu mar)
Tigrinya: ፋኑስ (fanus)
Turkish: lamba (tr), ampul (tr)
Turkmen: lampa
Ukrainian: ла́мпа f (lámpa), ла́мпочка f (lámpočka) (globe)
Urdu: چراغ‎ m (cirāġ, carāġ)
Uyghur: لامپا‎ (lampa), چىراغ‎ (chiragh)
Uzbek: lampa (uz), chiroq (uz)
Vietnamese: đèn (vi), đèn điện (vi)
Volapük: lampad (vo)
Walloon: lampe (wa) f
Welsh: lamp (cy) f, llusern f, lampiau f pl
White Hmong: teeb
Yagnobi: чироғ (čiroġ)
Yiddish: לאָמפּ‎ m (lomp)

oil device producing light

Afrikaans: lamp
Albanian: llambë (sq) f
Arabic: مِصْبَاح‎ (ar) m (miṣbāḥ), قِنْدِيل‎ (ar) m (qindīl), سِرَاج‎ m (sirāj)
Armenian: լամպ (hy) (lamp), լապտեր (hy) (lapter)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܪܵܓ݂ܵܐ‎ m (šrāḡā), ܠܲܡܦܹܝܕܵܐ‎ m (lampēydā)
Asturian: llámpara (ast) f
Burmese: ဆီမီး (my) (hcimi:), မီးခွက် (my) (mi:hkwak)
Catalan: làmpada (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎠᏨᏍᏗ (atsvsdi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 燈／灯 (zh) (dēng)
Czech: lampa (cs) f
Danish: lampe (da) c, olielampe c
Dutch: lamp (nl) f or m, olielamp (nl) f or m
Faroese: lampa f
Finnish: öljylamppu (fi)
French: lampe (fr) f
Galician: lámpada f
Georgian: ლამპა (lamṗa)
German: Lampe (de) f, Öllampe (de) f
Greek: λάμπα (el) f (lámpa)
Ancient: λύχνος m (lúkhnos)
Hausa: fitila (ha)
Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה‎ (he) f (m'norá)
Hindi: बत्ती (hi) f (battī), चिराग़ m (cirāġ)
Hungarian: olajlámpa (hu), mécses (hu)
Irish: lampa m
Italian: lampada (it) f
Japanese: ランプ (ja) (ranpu), 明かり (ja) (あかり, akari)
Kalmyk: шам (sham)
Kazakh: шам (şam), шырақ (kk) (şyraq)
Khmer: ចង្កៀង (km) (cɑngkiəng), ចង្កៀងខ្លាញ់ (cɑngkiəng khlañ)
Kom (Cameroon): lâm
Korean: 램프 (ko) (raempeu), 광명 (ko) (gwangmyeong)
Kyrgyz: чырак (ky) (çırak), шам (ky) (şam)
Latin: lucerna f, laterna f
Malay: pelita (ms)
Malayalam: വിളക്ക് (ml) (viḷakkŭ), ദീപം (ml) (dīpaṃ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lampe (no) m or f
Nynorsk: lampe m or f
Ottoman Turkish: قندیل‎ (kandil), سراج‎ (sirac), لامپه‎ (lampa), مصباح‎ (mısbah)
Persian: چراغ‎ (fa) (čerâğ)
Plautdietsch: Laump f
Polish: lampa (pl) f
Portuguese: candeia (pt) f
Romanian: lampă (ro) f, lămpi f pl
Russian: ла́мпа (ru) f (lámpa), свети́льник (ru) m (svetílʹnik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: свѐтӣљка f, свјѐтӣљка f, ла̑мпа f
Roman: svètīljka (sh) f, svjètīljka (sh) f, lȃmpa (sh) f
Sindhi: بَتيِ‎ f (batī)
Slovak: lampa (sk) f
Sotho: lebone, lampi
Spanish: lámpara (es) f, candil (es) m
Swahili: taa (sw)
Swedish: lampa (sv) c, oljelampa c
Tajik: чароғ (čaroġ)
Thai: โคม (th) (koom), ประทีป (th) (bprà-tîip)
Tocharian B: cok
Turkish: lamba (tr), yağ lambası
Urdu: چراغ‎ m (cirāġ, carāġ)
Volapük: lampad (vo)
Walloon: lampe (wa) f, crasset (wa) m, lantiene (wa) f, kénket (wa) m
Welsh: lamp (cy) f
White Hmong: teeb
Yiddish: לאָמפּ‎ m (lomp)

piece of furniture

Finnish: valaisin (fi), lamppu (fi)
Russian: ла́мпа (ru) f (lámpa), свети́льник (ru) m (svetílʹnik)

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Translations to be checked

Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ნათურა (natura), ^{(please verify)} ფარანი (parani)
Gujarati: ^{(please verify)} દીપ m (dīp), ^{(please verify)} દીપક m (dīpak), ^{(please verify)} ચિરાગ઼ m (cirāġ)
Hindi: ^{(please verify)} दिया (hi) m (diyā), ^{(please verify)} दीप (hi) m (dīp), ^{(please verify)} दीपक (hi) m (dīpak), ^{(please verify)} चिराग़ m (cirāġ)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} چرا‎ (ku) (çra)
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} lempa (lt) f
Persian: ^{(please verify)} چراغ‎ (fa) (čerâğ, čarâğ)
Tamil: ^{(please verify)} விளக்கு (ta) (viḷakku), ^{(please verify)} தீபம் (ta) (tīpam)
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} దీపం (te) (dīpaṁ), ^{(please verify)} దివ్వె (te) (divve)
Urdu: ^{(please verify)} دیا‎ m (diyā), ^{(please verify)} دیپ‎ m (dīpa), ^{(please verify)} دیپک‎ m (dīpak), ^{(please verify)} چراغ‎ m (cirāġġ)

Verb

lamp (third-person singular simple present lamps, present participle lamping, simple past and past participle lamped)

(slang, Britain) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
(Britain, Ireland) To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping.
Synonyms: (North America) jacklight, spotlight
(slang, US) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
- 1988 June 28, “Cold Lampin' With Flavor”, in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back‎, performed by Public Enemy:
  I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays.
To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.

References

lamp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

MPLA, Palm, palm

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lamp, from Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lamp/
Audio (file)

Noun

lamp (plural lampe, diminutive lampje)

lamp

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German lamp, from Old High German lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz. Cognate with German Lamm, Dutch lam, English lamb, Icelandic lamb.

Noun

lamp n (plural lémper, diminutive lèmple)

(Sette Comuni) lamb

References

“lamp” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɑmp/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: lamp
Rhymes: -ɑmp

Noun

lamp f (plural lampen, diminutive lampje n)

lamp
(electronics, informal) vacuum tube, thermionic valve
Synonyms: radiolamp, buis, elektronenbuis, radiobuis

Derived terms

aromalamp
autolamp
bedlamp
bermlamp
booglamp
bouwlamp
buislamp
buitenlamp
bureaulamp
carbidlamp
designlamp
fietslamp
flitslamp
fotolamp
gaslamp
gloeilamp
godslamp
groeilamp
hanglamp
hoofdlamp
keukenlamp
knijplamp
koplamp
kroonlamp
kwartslamp
kwiklamp
lampenfabriek
lampenfabrikant
lampenkap
lamphouder
lamplicht
lampolie
lavalamp
ledlamp
leeslamp
looplamp
mijnlamp
mistlamp
muurlamp
nachtlamp
neonlamp
olielamp
partylamp
pillamp
radiolamp
remlamp
schaarlamp
waterstoflamp
xenonlamp

Descendants

Afrikaans: lamp
Berbice Creole Dutch: lampu
Jersey Dutch: lāmp
Negerhollands: lamp
→ Japanese: ランプ (ranpu)
→ Malay: lampu
- Indonesian: lampu
  - → Petjo: lampoe
→ Papiamentu: lampi
→ Sranan Tongo: lampu
- → Arawak: lampu
- → Caribbean Hindustani: lamphu
- → Galibi Carib: lampu
- → Trió: rama

Anagrams

palm

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German lampe or German Lampe.

Noun

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi)

lamp

Declension

Declension of lamp (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	lamp	lambid
genitive	lambi	lampide
partitive	lampi	lampe / lampisid
illative	lampi / lambisse	lampidesse / lambesse
inessive	lambis	lampides / lambes
elative	lambist	lampidest / lambest
allative	lambile	lampidele / lambele
adessive	lambil	lampidel / lambel
ablative	lambilt	lampidelt / lambelt
translative	lambiks	lampideks / lambeks
terminative	lambini	lampideni
essive	lambina	lampidena
abessive	lambita	lampideta
comitative	lambiga	lampidega

Derived terms

lambivari

Descendants

→ Ingrian: lamppi

Adjective

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi, comparative lambim, superlative kõige lambim)

(colloquial) random
See on mingi lamp vend.
He's some random dude.

Declension

Declension of lamp (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	lamp	lambid
genitive	lambi	lampide
partitive	lampi	lampe / lampisid
illative	lampi / lambisse	lampidesse / lambesse
inessive	lambis	lampides / lambes
elative	lambist	lampidest / lambest
allative	lambile	lampidele / lambele
adessive	lambil	lampidel / lambel
ablative	lambilt	lampidelt / lambelt
translative	lambiks	lampideks / lambeks
terminative	lambini	lampideni
essive	lambina	lampidena
abessive	lambita	lampideta
comitative	lambiga	lampidega

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare lame (“flat”), lamama (“to lay down”).

Adjective

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi, comparative lambim, superlative kõige lambim)

flat (as in flat-footed)
Joosepil on lampis jalad.
Joosep has flat feet.

Usage notes

Mostly used in the context of flat feet.

Declension

Declension of lamp (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	lamp	lambid
genitive	lambi	lampide
partitive	lampi	lampe / lampisid
illative	lampi / lambisse	lampidesse / lambesse
inessive	lambis	lampides / lambes
elative	lambist	lampidest / lambest
allative	lambile	lampidele / lambele
adessive	lambil	lampidel / lambel
ablative	lambilt	lampidelt / lambelt
translative	lambiks	lampideks / lambeks
terminative	lambini	lampideni
essive	lambina	lampidena
abessive	lambita	lampideta
comitative	lambiga	lampidega

Middle English

Noun

lamp

Alternative form of laumpe

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɑmp/

Verb

lamp

first/third-person singular present of limpan

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lamp/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -amp
Syllabification: lamp

Noun

lamp

genitive plural of lampa

Scots

Verb

lamp (third-person singular simple present lamps, present participle lampin, simple past lampt, past participle lampt)

(intransitive) To run wild; to scamper.
(intransitive) To go jauntily.

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lamp

lamp

Inflection

Inflection of lamp (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	lamp
genitive sing.	lampan
partitive sing.	lampad
partitive plur.	lampoid
	singular	plural
nominative	lamp	lampad
accusative	lampan	lampad
genitive	lampan	lampoiden
partitive	lampad	lampoid
essive-instructive	lampan	lampoin
translative	lampaks	lampoikš

inessive	lampas	lampoiš
elative	lampaspäi	lampoišpäi
illative	lampaha	lampoihe

adessive	lampal	lampoil
ablative	lampalpäi	lampoilpäi
allative	lampale	lampoile

abessive	lampata	lampoita
comitative	lampanke	lampoidenke
prolative	lampadme	lampoidme

approximative I	lampanno	lampoidenno
approximative II	lampannoks	lampoidennoks
egressive	lampannopäi	lampoidennopäi

terminative I	lampahasai	lampoihesai
terminative II	lampalesai	lampoilesai
terminative III	lampassai	—

additive I	lampahapäi	lampoihepäi
additive II	lampalepäi	lampoilepäi

Derived terms

avtolamp
jauglamp
lagilamp
seinlamp
lampankatuz

References

Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “лампа, светильник”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Etymology

English lamp

Noun

lamp m or f (plural lampau, not mutable)

lamp

Synonyms

llusern

lamp

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

References

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Cimbrian

Etymology

Noun

References

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Adjective

Declension

Etymology 2

Adjective

Usage notes

Declension

Middle English

Noun

Old English

Pronunciation

Verb

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

Scots

Verb

Veps

Etymology

Noun

Inflection

Derived terms

References

Welsh

Etymology

Noun

Synonyms

Further reading