lighthouse

English

A lighthouse

Aerial footage of a lighthouse.

Etymology

From light +‎ house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪthaʊs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

lighthouse (plural lighthouses)

2. A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.

   Alternative form: light house

   Synonyms: obeliscolychny (rare), phare

   Hypernyms: house, building; light (synecdochally hypernymous); aid

   Coordinate terms: light buoy, lightboat, lightship, lightvessel

   In the history of lighthouses, English civil engineer John Smeaton made a significant contribution to the design of them.

   • 2024 June 24, Brandon Griggs, “This coastal culinary hub offers a ‘big-city feel in a small-city package’”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 August 2024:

     Visitors to Maine, arriving with visions of lighthouses and lobsters, often bypass Portland on their way northeast to Acadia National Park or the many picturesque fishing villages of the state’s mid-coast. […] Don’t miss Portland Head Light, an iconic landmark and Maine’s oldest lighthouse, which sits on a rocky point some 5 miles south of Portland. The lighthouse dates to 1791 and was commissioned by George Washington.

Derived terms

• lighthouse coffeepot
• lighthouse keeper
• lighthousekeeper
• lighthouselike
• lighthouseman
• Lighthouse Point
• lighthouse tube
• screw-pile lighthouse

Translations

building containing a light to warn or guide ships

• Afrikaans: vuurtoring (af), ligtoring (af)
• Albanian: far m, fanar (sq) m
• Amharic: የፋና ቤት m (yäfana bet)
• Arabic: مَنَارَة (ar) f (manāra), مَنَار m (manār), فَنَار m (fanār)

  Egyptian Arabic: منارة f (manāra), فنار m (fanār)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَنارة f (manāra)

• Armenian: փարոս (hy) (pʻaros)
• Asturian: faru m
• Azerbaijani: mayak (az), dəniz fənəri
• Basque: itsasargi
• Belarusian: мая́к m (maják)
• Bengali: বাতিঘর (bn) (batighor)
• Breton: tour-tan (br)
• Bulgarian: фар (bg) m (far)
• Burmese: မီးပြတိုက် (my) (mi:pra.tuik)
• Carpathian Rusyn: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: far (ca) m
• Chechen: маяк (majak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 燈塔 / 灯塔 (dang¹ taap³)

  Dungan: дынтэ (dɨnte)

  Hokkien: 燈塔 / 灯塔 (zh-min-nan) (teng-thah)

  Mandarin: 燈塔 / 灯塔 (zh) (dēngtǎ), 岸標 / 岸标 (zh) (ànbiāo)

• Cornish: golowji
• Czech: maják (cs) m
• Danish: fyr (da) n, fyrtårn (da) n
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dusun:

  Central Dusun: walai-tapuy

• Dutch: vuurtoren (nl) m
• Esperanto: lumturo
• Estonian: tuletorn, majakas
• Faroese: viti m
• Finnish: majakka (fi)
• French: phare (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: fjoertoer c

• Gagauz: fener
• Galician: faro (gl) m
• Georgian: შუქურა (ka) (šukura)
• German: Leuchtturm (de) m

  Alemannic German: Lüüchtturm m

• Greek: φάρος (el) m (fáros)

  Ancient Greek: φρυκτώριον n (phruktṓrion)

• Greenlandic: naaralaartitsivik
• Gujarati: દીવાદાંડી f (dīvādā̃ḍī)
• Hawaiian: hale ipukukui
• Hebrew: מִגדַלוֹר (he) m (migdalór)
• Hindi: रोशनीघर m (rośnīghar), दीपगृह (dīpgŕh), प्रकाशस्तंभ m (prakāśastambh)
• Hungarian: világítótorony (hu)
• Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: viti (is) m, vitaturn (is) m
• Ido: faro (io)
• Indonesian: mercusuar (id), menara api (id)
• Interlingua: pharo
• Irish: teach solais m
• Italian: faro (it) m
• Japanese: 灯台 (ja) (とうだい, tōdai)
• Kannada: ಕಡಲಬೆಳಕು (kn) (kaḍalabeḷaku)
• Kashubian: bliza f, latarniô f
• Kazakh: шамшырақ (şamşyraq), маяк (maäk)
• Khmer: សើន (km) (saən), ប្រទីប (km) (prɑtiip), ហ្វារ (km) (faa)
• Korean: 등대(燈臺) (ko) (deungdae)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: fanûsgeh

• Kyrgyz: маяк (ky) (mayak)
• Lao: ປະພາຄານ (pa phā khān)
• Latin: pharus m
• Latvian: bāka f
• Lithuanian: švyturys m
• Luxembourgish: Liichttuerm m, Phar m
• Macedonian: све́тилник m (svétilnik), фар m (far)
• Malay: rumah api (ms)
• Malayalam: വിളക്കുമാടം (ml) (viḷakkumāṭaṁ)
• Maltese: fanal m
• Manx: thie soilshee m, thie sollysh m
• Māori: whare rama, whare tūrama
• Marathi: दीपस्तंभ (mr) (dīpastambha)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гэрэлт цамхаг (gerelt camxag)

• Nepali: प्रकाशस्तम्भ (prakāśastambha)
• Norman: veue f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fyr (no) n, fyrtårn (no) n

• Occitan: far (oc)
• Old English: fȳrtorr m
• Pannonian Rusyn: швицарнїк m (švicarnjik)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: فانوسِ دَرْیایی (fânus-e daryâyi)

• Plautdietsch: Lichttorm m
• Polish: latarnia morska (pl) f
• Portuguese: farol (pt) m
• Romanian: far (ro) n
• Russian: мая́к (ru) m (maják)
• Saanich: ĆI¸EḰENÁU¸TW̱
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: čuovgatoardna

• Sanskrit: दीपस्तंभ (dīpastaṃbha)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-solais m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: светио̀нӣк m, свјетио̀нӣк m, светиља f

  Latin: svetiònīk m, svjetiònīk (sh) m, svetilja f

• Sinhalese: ප්‍රදීපාගාරය (pradīpāgāraya), ප්රදීපාගාරය (pradīpāgāraya)
• Slovak: maják (sk) m
• Slovene: svetilnik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: swěśak m, swětlak m

  Upper Sorbian: swětłownja f

• Spanish: faro (es) m, fanal (es) m
• Swahili: mnara wa taa
• Swedish: fyr (sv) c, fyrtorn (sv) n
• Tagalog: parola (tl)
• Tajik: мино (mino), минои баҳрӣ (mino-yi bahri), маяк (tg) (mayak), фонуси дарёӣ (fonus-i daryoyi)
• Tamil: கலங்கரைவிளக்கம் (ta) (kalaṅkaraiviḷakkam)
• Tatar: маяк (mayaq)
• Telugu: దీపస్తంభం (te) (dīpastambhaṁ)
• Tetum: farol
• Thai: ประภาคาร (th) (bprà-paa-kaan), กระโจมไฟ (th) (grà-joom-fai), เรือนตะเกียง (th) (rʉʉan-dtà-giiang), เรือนไฟ (th) (rʉʉan-fai)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: መናራ (mänara)
• Turkish: fener (tr), fener kulesi, deniz feneri (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: فنار (fenar, fener)

• Turkmen: maýak
• Ukrainian: мая́к (uk) m (maják)
• Urdu: مَنارَہ m (manāra), روشَنی گَھر m (rośanī ghar), روشَنی کا مینار f (rośanī kā menār)
• Uyghur: ماياك (mayak)
• Uzbek: mayak (uz)
• Veps: majak
• Vietnamese: hải đăng (vi)
• Volapük: far (vo)
• Welsh: goleudy m
• Yiddish: לײַכטטורעם m (laykhtturem)

See also

• beacon

Anagrams

• houselight