chandelier

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• UK: /ˌʃæn.dəˈlɪə(ɹ)/
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• US: /ˌʃæn.dəˈlɪɚ/
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Borrowed from French chandelier, from Latin candelabrum, from candela (“a candle”). Doublet of candelabrum. See also candle.

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: llambadar — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Arabic: ثُرَيَّا (ṯurayyā) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Arabic: نَجَفَة (najafa) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Arabic: نجفة (nagafa) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Arabic: ثريا — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Arabic: ثرية (ṯurayyā) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Arabic: نجفة (najafa) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Arabic: ترية (triyya) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Armenian: ջահ (ǰah) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Armenian: լյուստրա (lyustra) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Azerbaijani: çilçıraq — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Basque: argi-armiarma — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Belarusian: лю́стра (ljústra) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Belarusian: жырандо́ль (žyrandólʹ) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Belarusian: жырандо́ля (žyrandólja) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Bengali: ঝাড়বাতি (jhaṛbati) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Bulgarian: полиле́й (poliléj) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Burmese: မီးပဒေသာ (mi:pa.desa) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Catalan: aranya — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Chinese Cantonese: 吊燈 /吊灯 — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Chinese Mandarin: 吊燈 /吊灯 (diàodēng) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Czech: lustr — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Danish: lysekrone — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Dutch: kroonluchter — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Dutch: luster — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Elfdalian: liuoskraungen — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Elfdalian: liuoskruon — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Esperanto: lustro — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Estonian: kroonlühter — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Estonian: lühter — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Faroese: ljósakrúna — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Finnish: kattokruunu — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• French: lustre — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Georgian: ჭაღი (č̣aɣi) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• German: Kronleuchter — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• German: Lüster — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• German: Luster — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Greek: πολυέλαιος (polyélaios) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Greenlandic: inimi qullersuaq — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Greenlandic: naneruuserfissuaq — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Gujarati: ઝુમ્મર (jhummar) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Hebrew: נִבְרֶשֶׁת (nivréshet) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Hindi: झाड़ (jhāṛ) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Hindi: झाड़-फ़ानूस (jhāṛ-fānūs) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Hindi: झूमर (jhūmar) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Hungarian: csillár — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Icelandic: ljósakróna — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Indonesian: kandelir — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Irish: crann solais — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Irish: coinnleoir craobhach — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Italian: lampadario — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Japanese: シャンデリア (shanderia) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Kazakh: аспашам (aspaşam) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Kazakh: люстра (lüstra) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Korean: 샹들리에 (syangdeullie) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Kyrgyz: шамчырактын (şamcıraktın) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Kyrgyz: люстра (lyustra) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Kyrgyz: асмачырак (asmacırak) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Kyrgyz: асмашам (asmaşam) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Latvian: lustra — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Lithuanian: sietynas — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Lithuanian: liustra — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Luxembourgish: Lüster — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Macedonian: лустер (luster) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Malay: candelier — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Malay: kandil — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Norwegian Bokmål: lysekrone — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ljosekrone — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lysekrone — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Occitan: lustre — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Persian: لوستِر (luster) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Persian: نورافشان (nurâfšân) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Persian: قَندیل (qandil) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Polish: żyrandol — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Portuguese: lustre — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Romanian: candelabru — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Romanian: lustră — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Romansh: candelaber — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Romansh: lampadari — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Russian: лю́стра (ljústra) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Samoan: moli tautau — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Serbo-Croatian: лу̀стер — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Serbo-Croatian: светилник — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Serbo-Croatian: lùster — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Serbo-Croatian: svetilnik — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Silesian: krůnlojter — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Silesian: krōnlojter — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Slovak: luster — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Slovene: lestenec — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Spanish: araña de luces — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Spanish: lámpara de araña — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Spanish: candil — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Swahili: thurea — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Swedish: ljuskrona — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Swedish: takkrona — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Swedish: kristallkrona — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Tagalog: aranya — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Tajik: лустер (luster) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Tajik: қандил (qandil) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Tajik: чилчароғ (čilčaroġ) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Thai: โคมระย้า (koom-rá-yáa) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Turkish: avize — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Turkish: şandölye — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Ottoman Turkish: آویزه (avize) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Turkmen: lýustra — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Ukrainian: лю́стра (ljústra) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Ukrainian: жирандо́ль (žyrandólʹ) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Urdu: جھاڑ (jhāṛ) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Urdu: فانوس (fānūs) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Uyghur: ئاسما چىراغ (asma chiragh) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Uyghur: ئاسما چىراق (asma chiraq) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Uzbek: lyustra — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Uzbek: qandil — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Uzbek: chilchiroq — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Vietnamese: đèn treo — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Vietnamese: đèn chùm — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Welsh: canhwyllyr — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Welsh: siandelïer — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Welsh: siandelïers — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Yiddish: בליצלאָמפּ (blitslomp) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Yiddish: לוסטרע (lustre) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Yiddish: שאַנדאָליער (shandolyer) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Yiddish: שענדעליר (shendelir) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Yiddish: זשיראַנדאָל (zhirandol) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
• Yiddish: הענגלײַכטער (henglaykhter) — branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling