traffic light

traffic light

See also: traffic-light

English

A traffic light (signalling device).

Noun

traffic light (plural traffic lights)

1. A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing to indicate when it may be safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal colour code.
   1. (usually in the plural) A road intersection controlled by one or more such devices.

      Turn left at the traffic lights and the hospital is on your right.

2. A colour code using the three signals of a traffic light (green, yellow/amber, and red) as a metaphor.

   The Department of Health recommends that food packaging display the recommended daily intake with a traffic light system, for ease of understanding.

3. (philately) The coloured dots on stamp sheet margins printed with offset litho or photogravure methods, used by the printers to check colour accuracy.

Synonyms

• (signaling device): robot (South Africa), stop light (US), traffic signal (UK dated, US)
• (intersection): lights, signals
• (philately): registration mark

Translations

signalling device

Afrikaans: robot, verkeerslig Albanian: semafor (sq) m Arabic: إِشَارَة مُرُور‎ f (ʾišārat murūr), إِشَارَة ضَوْئِيَّة‎ f (ʾišāra ḍawʾiyya) Hijazi Arabic: إِشَارَة‎ m (ʾišāra) Moroccan Arabic: ضو احمر‎ m (ḍaww eḥmar) North Levantine Arabic: رمزور‎ m (ramzōr) South Levantine Arabic: رمزور‎ m (ramzōr) Armenian: լուսացույց (hy) (lusacʿuycʿ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܝܼܫܲܢܩܵܐ ܕܡܲܪܕܝܼܬܵܐ‎‎ m (nīšānqa d-mārdīta) Asturian: semáforu m Azerbaijani: işıqfor, yol işığı Bashkir: светофор (svetofor) Basque: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: святлафо́р m (svjatlafór) Bengali: সিগনাল (sigônal) Bulgarian: светофа́р (bg) m (svetofár) Burmese: ယာဉ်အသွားအလာအလင်း (yany-a.swa:a.laa.lang:), အသွားအလာအလင်း (a.swa:a.laa.lang:), မီးပွိုင့် (mi:pwuing.) Catalan: semàfor (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 紅綠燈, 红绿灯 (hung4 luk6 dang1), 交通燈, 交通灯 (gaau1 tung1 dang1) Hakka: 紅青燈, 红青灯 (fùng-chhiâng-tên) Mandarin: 紅綠燈／红绿灯 (zh), 红绿灯 (zh) (hónglǜdēng), 信號燈／信号灯 (zh), 信号灯 (zh) (xìnhàodēng) Min Nan: 青紅燈 (zh-min-nan), 青红灯 (chheⁿ-âng-teng, chhiⁿ-âng-teng) Czech: semafor (cs) m, světelné signalizační zařízení n Danish: lyssignal, lyskurv, trafiklys (da) n Dutch: verkeerslicht (nl) n, stoplicht (nl) n Elfdalian: trafikliuos Esperanto: trafiklumoj, semaforo Estonian: valgusfoor Faroese: ferðsluljós n Finnish: liikennevalot (fi) pl French: feu (fr) m, feux de circulation (fr) m pl Fula: Adlam: 𞤨𞤮𞥅𞤴𞤫 𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮𞤤‎ Latin: pooye laawol Galician: semáforo (gl) m Georgian: შუქნიშანი (šuknišani) German: Ampel (de) f, Verkehrsampel (de) f; (Namibia, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)) Robot (de) m Greek: φανάρι (el) n (fanári) Hebrew: רַמְזוֹר‎ (he) m (ramzór) Hindi: यातायात बत्ती (yātāyāt battī), ट्रैफ़िक लाइट (ṭraifik lāiṭ) Hungarian: jelzőlámpa (hu), közlekedési lámpa (hu), stoplámpa Icelandic: umferðarljós (is) n Indonesian: lampu lalu lintas (id) Irish: solas tráchta m Italian: semaforo (it) m Japanese: 交通信号 (ja) (こうつうしんごう, kōtsū shingō), 信号 (ja) (しんごう, shingō), ゴーストップ (gōsutoppu), 信号機 (ja) (しんごうき, shingōki) Kazakh: бағдаршам (bağdarşam) Khmer: ពន្លឺចរាចរណ៍ (pŭənlɨɨ cɑɑraacɑɑ) Korean: 신호등(信號燈) (ko) (sinhodeung) Kyrgyz: белгишам (belgişam), светофор (svetofor) Ladino: lampas de trafik Lao: ໄຟສັນຍານຈໍລະຈອນ (lo) (fai san nyān chǭ la chǭn), ໄຟຈະລາຈອນ (fai cha lā chǭn) Latvian: luksofors m, svetofors m (dated) Lithuanian: šviesoforas m Macedonian: семафо́р m (semafór) Malay: lampu isyarat (ms), lampu trafik Maltese: dawl tat-traffiku m Mongolian: Cyrillic: замын гэрэл (zamyn gerel), дохионы гэрэл (doxiony gerel) Norman: veue d'trafi f Norwegian: Bokmål: trafikklys (no) n Nynorsk: trafikklys n Persian: چراغ راهنمایی‎ (fa) (čerâğ-e râhnamâyi) Polish: światło sygnalizacyjne n, sygnalizator świetlny, sygnalizacja (pl), światła drogowe n pl Portuguese: semáforo (pt) m, sinal de trânsito m, sinal (pt) m, farol (pt) m, sinaleira (pt) f (Northeastern Brazil, Florianópolis) Romanian: semafor (ro) n Russian: светофо́р (ru) m (svetofór) Rusyn: семафо́р m (semafór) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: се̏мафо̄р m, светлоказ m Roman: sȅmafōr (sh) m, svetlokaz Slovak: semafor m Slovene: semafor (sl) m Spanish: semáforo (es) m Swedish: trafikljus (sv), trafiksignal c Tagalog: ilaw-trapiko Tajik: чароғи раҳнамо (čaroġi rahnamo), светофор (svetofor) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Thai: สัญญาณไฟจราจร (sǎn-yaan-fai-jà-raa-jɔɔn), ไฟจราจร (th) (fai-jà-raa-jɔɔn) Turkish: trafik ışığı Turkmen: swetofor, ýolyşyk Ukrainian: світлофо́р m (svitlofór) Uzbek: svetofor (uz) Vietnamese: đèn giao thông, đèn hiệu, đèn hiệu giao thông, đèn xanh đèn đỏ, đèn xanh đỏ Welsh: goleuad traffig m, goleuadau (cy) m pl Yiddish: פֿאָרסיגנאַל‎ (forsignal) Zulu: please add this translation if you can