abat-jour
English
editEtymology
editFrom French abattre jour (any contrivance or apparatus to admit light, or to throw it in a desired direction, as a lamp-shade).
Noun
editabat-jour (plural abat-jours)
- A skylight, or any beveled aperture made in the wall of an apartment or in a roof, for the better admission of light from above.
- A sloping, box-like structure, flaring upward and open at the top, attached to a window on the outside, to prevent those within from seeing objects below, or for the purpose of directing light downward into the window.
References
edit- Century Dictionary, volume 1, 1889, page 6
French
editEtymology
editFrom abat (“breaks down”) + jour (“light”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editabat-jour m (plural abat-jours)
Descendants
editDescendants
- → Albanian: abazhur
- → Arabic: أَبَاجُور (ʔabāžūr)
- → Hijazi Arabic: أَبَجورة (ʔabajōra)
- → Bulgarian: абажу́р (abažúr)
- → Czech: abažúr
- → English: abatjour
- → Estonian: abažuur
- → Greek: αμπαζούρ (ampazoúr)
- → Ladino: abazur
- → Italian: abat-jour
- → Latvian: abažūrs
- → Lithuanian: abažūras
- → Persian: آباژور (âbâžur)
- → Polish: abażur
- → Portuguese: abajur
- → Romagnol: abat-jour
- → Romanian: abajur
- → Russian: абажу́р (abažúr)
- → Azerbaijani: abajur
- → Bashkir: абажур (abajur)
- → Belarusian: абажу́р (abažúr)
- → Chuvash: абажур (abažur)
- → Eastern Mari: абажур (abažur)
- → Georgian: აბაჟური (abažuri)
- → Kazakh: абажур (abajur)
- → Komi-Zyrian: абажур (abažur)
- → Ossetian: абажур (abažur)
- → Tatar: абажур (abajur)
- → Tajik: абажур (abažur)
- → Udmurt: абажур (abažur)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Ottoman Turkish: آباژور (abajur)
- Turkish: abajur
- → Ukrainian: абажу́р (abažúr)
Further reading
edit- “abat-jour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French abat-jour.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editabat-jour m or (occasionally) f (invariable)
Further reading
edit- abat-jour in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norman
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editabat-jour m (plural abat-jours)
Romagnol
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editabat-jour m (plural abat-jour)
References
edit- Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 1
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