dusk

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /dʌsk/
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• Northern-England: /dʊsk/
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• CMU ARPABET: D AH1 S K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhwes-, related to *dhewh2- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).

From Middle English dusken, from Old English doxian.

137 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عِشَاء (ʕišāʔ) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Arabic: غَسَق (ḡasaq) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Armenian: մթնշաղ (mtʻnšaġ) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Armenian: աղջամուղջ (aġǰamuġǰ) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Bashkir: эңер (eñer) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Basque: ilunabar — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Bhojpuri: गोधूलि (gōdhūli) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Central Bikol: sinarom — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Bulgarian: здрач (zdrač) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Bulgarian: сумрак (sumrak) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Bulgarian: привечер (privečer) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Catalan: crepuscle — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Catalan: capvespre — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Chinese Cantonese: 黃昏 /黄昏 (wong4 fan1) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Chinese Mandarin: 黃昏 /黄昏 (huánghūn) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Chinese Mandarin: 曫 /𬁢 (luán) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Czech: soumrak — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Danish: skumring — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Dutch: schemering — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Dutch: avondschemering — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Egyptian: i-x:x-w-N2 (jḫḫw) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Esperanto: vesperiĝo — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Esperanto: vespera krepusko — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Estonian: eha — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Ewe: wɔle — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Finnish: iltahämärä — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Finnish: illansuu — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• French: crépuscule — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• French: entre chien et loup — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Galician: anoitecer — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Galician: bocanoite — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Galician: entre lusco e fusco — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Galician: crepúsculo — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Georgian: მწუხრი (mc̣uxri) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Georgian: დაისი (daisi) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Georgian: ბინდი (bindi) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Georgian: დაბინდება (dabindeba) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Georgian: შებინდება (šebindeba) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• German: Abenddämmerung — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Hebrew: בֵּין עַרְבַּייִם (bein arbáim) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Hindi: गोधूलि (godhūli) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Hungarian: alkony — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Hungarian: szürkület — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Hungarian: esthajnal — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Icelandic: ljósaskipti — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Icelandic: húm — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Icelandic: rökkur — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Indonesian: senja — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Indonesian: sore — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Ingrian: hämärä — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Ingrian: hämärikko — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Irish: coineascar — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Irish: clapsholas — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Irish: titim na hoíche — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Italian: crepuscolo — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Italian: tramonto — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Japanese: 夕暮れ — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Japanese: 黄昏 — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Korean: 땅거미 (ttanggeomi) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Latgalian: mikrieslis — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Latin: crepusculum — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Latvian: krēsla — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Lithuanian: sutemos — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Macedonian: самрак (samrak) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Macedonian: квечерина (kvečerina) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Maguindanao: silam — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Malayalam: സായംസന്ധ്യ (sāyaṁsandhya) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Maltese: għabex — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Manchu: ᡤᡝᡵᡥᡝᠨ ᠮᡠᡴᡳᠶᡝᠮᡝ (gerhen mukiyeme) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Māori: māpouriki — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Māori: pōrehurehu — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Navajo: hiłiijį́į́ʼ — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Norwegian: skumring — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Persian: شامگاه (šâmgâh) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Polish: zmierzch — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Polish: zmrok — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Portuguese: pôr do sol — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Portuguese: crepúsculo — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Portuguese: ocaso — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Portuguese: anoitecer — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Romagnol: imbrunìr — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Romanian: crepuscul — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Romanian: apus — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Romanian: amurg — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Russian: су́мерки (súmerki) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Samoan: pogipogi — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Sanskrit: दोषस् (doṣás) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Scottish Gaelic: ciaradh — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Serbo-Croatian: су̏мра̄к — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Serbo-Croatian: су́тон — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Serbo-Croatian: sȕmrāk — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Serbo-Croatian: súton — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Spanish: anochecer — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Spanish: crepúsculo/lubricán vespertino — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Spanish: atardecer — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Spanish: oscurecer — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Spanish: obscurecer — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Spanish: anochecida — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Spanish: anochecido — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Spanish: atardecida — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Swedish: skymning — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Tagalog: takipsilim — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Tamil: பட்டபோது (paṭṭapōtu) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Telugu: మునిమాపు వేళ (munimāpu vēḷa) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Telugu: సాయం సంధ్య (sāyaṁ sandhya) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Turkish: alacakaranlık — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Udmurt: акшан (akšan) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Ukrainian: су́тінки (sútinky) — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Vietnamese: chạng vạng — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Volapük: soaralulit — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Walloon: anuti — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Walloon: vesprêye tote basse — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Walloon: noer cwårt d' eure — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Walloon: brune — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Walloon: brunete — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Welsh: llwydnos — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Zazaki: tiji perayen — period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night
• Arabic: يَغْسِق (yaḡsiq) — to grow dusk
• Arabic: يَعْتِم (yaʕtim) — to grow dusk
• Basque: ilunabartu — to grow dusk
• Bulgarian: смрачава се (smračava se) — to grow dusk
• Danish: skumre — to grow dusk
• Finnish: hämärtää — to grow dusk
• Finnish: hämärtyä — to grow dusk
• Finnish: pimetä — to grow dusk
• Georgian: შებინდება (šebindeba) — to grow dusk
• German: dunkeln — to grow dusk
• Icelandic: rökkva — to grow dusk
• Icelandic: húma — to grow dusk
• Icelandic: dimma — to grow dusk
• Italian: tramontare — to grow dusk
• Italian: crepuscolare — to grow dusk
• Latvian: krēslot — to grow dusk
• Norwegian: skumre — to grow dusk
• Romanian: însera — to grow dusk
• Romanian: amurgi — to grow dusk
• Swedish: skymma — to grow dusk