chiaroscuro

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First attested in the mid-17th century, borrowed from Italian chiaroscuro, from chiaro (“clear, bright”) + oscuro (“dark, obscure”).

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اَلْجَلْاَء وَاَلْقُتْمَة (al-jalaʔ waalqutma) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Armenian: լուսաստվեր (lusastver) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Asturian: clarescuru — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Basque: argi-ilun — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Belarusian: святлаце́нь (svjatlacjénʹ) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Breton: sklêrijenn deñval — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Breton: sklaer-ha-teñval — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Breton: chiaroscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Bulgarian: све́тлося́нка (svétlosjánka) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Catalan: clarobscur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Chinese Mandarin: 明暗對照法 /明暗对照法 (míng'àn duìzhào fǎ) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Czech: šerosvit — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Dutch: clair-obscur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Esperanto: klarobskuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Esperanto: klaroskuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Finnish: chiaroscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Finnish: valohämy — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• French: clair-obscur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Friulian: clâr e scûr — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Galician: clarescuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Georgian: შუქჩრდილი (šukčrdili) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• German: Chiaroscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• German: Helldunkelmalerei — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• German: Clair-obscur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Greek: φωτοσκίαση (fotoskíasi) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Greek: σκιοφωτισμός (skiofotismós) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Greek: κιαροσκούρο (kiaroskoúro) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Hebrew: קִיָארוֹסְקוּרוֹ (kiyaroskúro) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Ido: klar-obskuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Interlingua: clar·obscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Interlingua: clarobscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Irish: gealdorcha — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Irish: chiaroscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Italian: chiaroscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Japanese: キアロスクーロ (kiarosukūro) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Japanese: 明暗法 (meianhō) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Japanese: 陰影法 (in'eihō) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Kazakh: сәуле мен көлеңке (säule men köleñke) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Korean: 키아로스쿠로 (kiaroseukuro) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Korean: 명암법 (myeong'ambeop) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Northern Kurdish: rohn û tarîtî — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Lithuanian: kiaroskuras — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Norwegian: chiaroscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Norwegian: kjellerlys — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Norwegian: clair-obscur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Occitan: clarescur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Persian: سایهروشن (sâye-rowšan) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Persian: کیاروسکورو (kiyâroskuro) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Piedmontese: ciàir-ëscur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Polish: światłocień — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Polish: chiaroscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Portuguese: chiaroscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Portuguese: claro-escuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Portuguese: fuscalvo — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Romanian: clarobscur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Romanian: clar-obscur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Russian: кьяроску́ро (kʹjaroskúro) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Russian: светоте́нь (svetoténʹ) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Serbo-Croatian: киароскуро — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Serbo-Croatian: kjaroskuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Slovene: chiaroscúro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Spanish: claroscuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Swedish: klärobskyr — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Swedish: clairobscur — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Swedish: ljusdunkel — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Tagalog: klaroskuro — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Tajik: рӯшноию тирагӣ (rüšnoyiyu tiragi) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Tamil: சியாரோஸ்கியூரோ (ciyārōskiyūrō) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Thai: ค่าต่างแสง (kâa-dtàang-sɛ̌ɛng) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Turkish: ışık gölge — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Turkish: aşık koyu — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Turkmen: ýagtylyk-kölege — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts
• Ukrainian: світлоті́нь (svitlotínʹ) — artistic technique using exaggerated light contrasts