Standard Lemma guide

lamp

name · noun · verb · 14 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlæ̞mp/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈlæ̝mp/ without æ-raising
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • [ˈleə̯mp] æ-raising
  • [ˈlɛə̯mp] æ-raising
  • rhymes with -æmp
  • CMU ARPABET: L AE1 M P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

Acronym of Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Python/Perl: a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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5

noun

Meaning 5

A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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6

noun

Meaning 6

An eye.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: African-American Vernacular

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7

noun

Meaning 7

Acronym of loop-mediated isothermal amplification.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

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8

noun

Meaning 8

Acronym of lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, cytology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

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Synonyms: none provided

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9

verb

Meaning 9

To hit, clout, belt, wallop.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, slang

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10

verb

Meaning 10

To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Ireland, UK

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jacklight, spotlight

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, slang

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Synonyms: none provided

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12

verb

Meaning 12

To make (something, such as a vase or urn) into a table lamp.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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13

noun

Meaning 13

an artificial source of visible illumination

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: source of illumination

Narrower terms: Aladdin's lamp, candle, taper, wax light, discharge lamp, electric lamp, flash, photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flashbulb, flash bulb, fluorescent lamp, gas lamp, hurricane lamp, hurricane lantern, tornado lantern, storm lantern, storm lamp, lantern, limelight, calcium light, neon lamp, neon induction lamp, neon tube, oil lamp, kerosene lamp, kerosine lamp, sodium-vapor lamp, sodium-vapour lamp, spirit lamp, spotlight, spot, streetlight, street lamp, taillight, tail lamp, rear light, rear lamp

14

noun

Meaning 14

a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: furniture, piece of furniture, article of furniture

Narrower terms: floor lamp, reading lamp, table lamp

History

Etymology

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh2p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-vat”).

Across languages

Translations

288 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: lamp — device producing light
  • Akkadian: nūrum — device producing light
  • Albanian: llambë — device producing light
  • Amharic: ፋኖስ (fanos) — device producing light
  • Arabic: مِصْبَاح (miṣbāḥ) — device producing light
  • Arabic: لَمْبَة (lamba) — device producing light
  • Arabic: لمبة (lamba) — device producing light
  • Arabic: لمبة (lamba) — device producing light
  • Arabic: أبجورة (abajōra) — device producing light
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܪܵܓ݂ܵܐ (šrāḡā) — device producing light
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܡܦܹܝܕܵܐ (lampēydā) — device producing light
  • Armenian: լամպ (lamp) — device producing light
  • Asturian: llámpara — device producing light
  • Avar: чирахъ (čiraqx) — device producing light
  • Azerbaijani: lampa — device producing light
  • Azerbaijani: çıraq — device producing light
  • Belarusian: ла́мпа (lámpa) — device producing light
  • Belarusian: ла́мпачка (lámpačka) — device producing light
  • Belarusian: ля́мпа (ljámpa) — device producing light
  • Bengali: শামা (śama) — device producing light
  • Bengali: সিরাজ (śiraj) — device producing light
  • Bhojpuri: दिया (diyā) — device producing light
  • Blackfoot: aaná'kimaa'tsis- — device producing light
  • Bulgarian: ла́мпа (lámpa) — device producing light
  • Burmese: မီးခွက် (mi:hkwak) — device producing light
  • Catalan: làmpada — device producing light
  • Catalan: llum — device producing light
  • Chechen: чиркх (čirq) — device producing light
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏨᏍᏗ (atsvsdi) — device producing light
  • Chichewa: nyale — device producing light
  • Chinese Cantonese: 燈 /灯 (dang1) — device producing light
  • Chinese Cantonese: 電燈 /电灯 — device producing light
  • Chinese: 燈 /灯 (zh-min-nan) — device producing light
  • Chinese: 電燈 /电灯 (tiān-teng) — device producing light
  • Chinese Mandarin: 燈 /灯 (dēng) — device producing light
  • Chinese Mandarin: 電燈 /电灯 (diàndēng) — device producing light
  • Northern Min Chinese: 燈 /灯 (dáing) — device producing light
  • Wu Chinese: 燈 /灯 — device producing light
  • Wu Chinese: 電燈 /电灯 — device producing light
  • Czech: lampa — device producing light
  • Czech: svítilna — device producing light
  • Danish: lampe — device producing light
  • Dutch: lamp — device producing light
  • Esperanto: lampo — device producing light
  • Estonian: lamp — device producing light
  • Faroese: lampa — device producing light
  • Finnish: valaisin — device producing light
  • Finnish: lamppu — device producing light
  • French: lampe — device producing light
  • Galician: lámpada — device producing light
  • Georgian: ლამპა (lamṗa) — device producing light
  • Georgian: ნათურა (natura) — device producing light
  • Georgian: ლამპარი (lamṗari) — device producing light
  • Georgian: ჩირაღდანი (čiraɣdani) — device producing light
  • German: Lampe — device producing light
  • Greek: λάμπα (lámpa) — device producing light
  • Gujarati: દીવો (dīvo) — device producing light
  • Gujarati: લેમ્પ (lemp) — device producing light
  • Hawaiian: ipukukui — device producing light
  • Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה (menorá) — device producing light
  • Higaonon: solo — device producing light
  • Hindi: चिराग़ (cirāġ) — device producing light
  • Hindi: लैंप (la͠ip) — device producing light
  • Hindi: दीपक (dīpak) — device producing light
  • Hindi: दिया (diyā) — device producing light
  • Hindi: दीवट (dīvaṭ) — device producing light
  • White Hmong: teeb — device producing light
  • Hungarian: lámpa — device producing light
  • Icelandic: lampi — device producing light
  • Ido: lampo — device producing light
  • Indonesian: lampu — device producing light
  • Irish: lampa — device producing light
  • Italian: lampada — device producing light
  • Italian: lampadina — device producing light
  • Japanese: ランプ (ranpu) — device producing light
  • Japanese: 明かり (akari) — device producing light
  • Japanese: 灯 (tō) — device producing light
  • Japanese: 電灯 (dentō) — device producing light
  • Kalmyk: шам (şam) — device producing light
  • S'gaw Karen: မ့ၣ်အူဒၢ (maỳ ʼoo duh) — device producing light
  • Kazakh: лампа (lampa) — device producing light
  • Kazakh: шам (şam) — device producing light
  • Kazakh: шырақ (şyraq) — device producing light
  • Khmer: ចង្កៀង (cɑɑcɑngkiəng) — device producing light
  • Korean: 램프 (raempeu) — device producing light
  • Korean: 전등 (jeondeung) — device producing light
  • Korean: 등불 (deungbul) — device producing light
  • Central Kurdish: چرا (çira) — device producing light
  • Northern Kurdish: lampe — device producing light
  • Northern Kurdish: çira — device producing light
  • Northern Kurdish: gulop — device producing light
  • Kyrgyz: лампа (lampa) — device producing light
  • Kyrgyz: шам (şam) — device producing light
  • Lao: ໂຄມໄຟ (khōm fai) — device producing light
  • Latvian: lampa — device producing light
  • Lithuanian: lempa — device producing light
  • Luxembourgish: Luucht — device producing light
  • Macedonian: ла́мпа (lámpa) — device producing light
  • Macedonian: све́тилка (svétilka) — device producing light
  • Malay: lampu — device producing light
  • Malayalam: വിളക്ക് (viḷakkŭ) — device producing light
  • Maltese: lampa — device producing light
  • Maltese: musbieħ — device producing light
  • Manchu: ᡩᡝᠩ (deng) — device producing light
  • Manchu: ᡩᡝᠩᠵᠠᠨ (dengjan) — device producing light
  • Mongolian: чийдэн (čiiden) — device producing light
  • Mongolian: гэрэл (gerel) — device producing light
  • Nanai: ихэрэ (ihere) — device producing light
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lampe — device producing light
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lampe — device producing light
  • Ossetian: цырагъ (cyraǧ) — device producing light
  • Ossetian: лампӕ (lampæ) — device producing light
  • Pashto: چراغ (čerāǧ) — device producing light
  • Pashto: لامپه (lāmpa) — device producing light
  • Iranian Persian: لَمْپا (lampâ) — device producing light
  • Iranian Persian: لامْپ (lâmp) — device producing light
  • Iranian Persian: چِراغ (čerâġ) — device producing light
  • Iranian Persian: چَراغ (čarâġ) — device producing light
  • Iranian Persian: مِصْباح (mesbâh) — device producing light
  • Plautdietsch: Laump — device producing light
  • Pohnpeian: lamp — device producing light
  • Polish: lampa — device producing light
  • Portuguese: luminária — device producing light
  • Portuguese: lâmpada — device producing light
  • Rarotongan: mōrī — device producing light
  • Romanian: lampă — device producing light
  • Romanian: lampă electrică — device producing light
  • Russian: ла́мпа (lámpa) — device producing light
  • Russian: ла́мпочка (lámpočka) — device producing light
  • Sanskrit: केतु (ketu) — device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: свѐтӣљка — device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: свјѐтӣљка — device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: ла̑мпа — device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: svètīljka — device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: svjètīljka — device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: lȃmpa — device producing light
  • Shan: ႁိူၼ်းၽႆး (hóen phái) — device producing light
  • Slovak: lampa — device producing light
  • Slovene: svetilka — device producing light
  • Sotho: lebone — device producing light
  • Sotho: lampi — device producing light
  • Southern Altai: јарыткыш (ǰarïtkïš) — device producing light
  • Southern Altai: лампа (lampa) — device producing light
  • Spanish: lámpara — device producing light
  • Swahili: taa — device producing light
  • Swedish: lampa — device producing light
  • Tagalog: lampara — device producing light
  • Tahitian: mōrī — device producing light
  • Tajik: чароғ (čaroġ) — device producing light
  • Tajik: лампа (lampa) — device producing light
  • Tajik: мисбоҳ (misboh) — device producing light
  • Tatar: лампа (lampa) — device producing light
  • Thai: โคมไฟ (koom-fai) — device producing light
  • Tibetan: ཞུ་མར (zhu mar) — device producing light
  • Tigrinya: ፋኑስ (fanus) — device producing light
  • Tumbuka: nyali — device producing light
  • Turkish: lamba — device producing light
  • Turkish: ampul — device producing light
  • Ottoman Turkish: مصباح (mısbah) — device producing light
  • Turkmen: lampa — device producing light
  • Ukrainian: ла́мпа (lámpa) — device producing light
  • Ukrainian: ла́мпочка (lámpočka) — device producing light
  • Urdu: چِراغ (cirāġ) — device producing light
  • Urdu: چَراغ (carāġ) — device producing light
  • Urdu: دِیپَک (dīpak) — device producing light
  • Urdu: دِیا (diyā) — device producing light
  • Urdu: لَیمْپ (laimp) — device producing light
  • Urdu: مِصْباح (misbāh) — device producing light
  • Uyghur: لامپا (lampa) — device producing light
  • Uyghur: چىراغ (chiragh) — device producing light
  • Uzbek: lampa — device producing light
  • Uzbek: chiroq — device producing light
  • Vietnamese: đèn — device producing light
  • Vietnamese: đèn điện — device producing light
  • Volapük: lampad — device producing light
  • Walloon: lampe — device producing light
  • Welsh: lamp — device producing light
  • Welsh: llusern — device producing light
  • Welsh: lampiau — device producing light
  • Yaghnobi: чироғ (čiroġ) — device producing light
  • Yiddish: לאָמפּ (lomp) — device producing light
  • Afrikaans: lamp — oil device producing light
  • Albanian: llambë — oil device producing light
  • Chungli Ao: milen — oil device producing light
  • Arabic: مِصْبَاح (miṣbāḥ) — oil device producing light
  • Arabic: قِنْدِيل (qindīl) — oil device producing light
  • Arabic: سِرَاج (sirāj) — oil device producing light
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܪܵܓ݂ܵܐ (šrāḡā) — oil device producing light
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܡܦܹܝܕܵܐ (lampēydā) — oil device producing light
  • Armenian: լամպ (lamp) — oil device producing light
  • Armenian: լապտեր (lapter) — oil device producing light
  • Asturian: llámpara — oil device producing light
  • Burmese: ဆီမီး (hcimi:) — oil device producing light
  • Burmese: မီးခွက် (mi:hkwak) — oil device producing light
  • Catalan: làmpada — oil device producing light
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏨᏍᏗ (atsvsdi) — oil device producing light
  • Chinese Mandarin: 燈 /灯 (dēng) — oil device producing light
  • Czech: lampa — oil device producing light
  • Danish: lampe — oil device producing light
  • Danish: olielampe — oil device producing light
  • Dutch: lamp — oil device producing light
  • Dutch: olielamp — oil device producing light
  • Faroese: lampa — oil device producing light
  • Finnish: öljylamppu — oil device producing light
  • French: lampe — oil device producing light
  • Galician: lámpada — oil device producing light
  • Georgian: ლამპა (lamṗa) — oil device producing light
  • German: Lampe — oil device producing light
  • German: Öllampe — oil device producing light
  • Greek: λάμπα (lámpa) — oil device producing light
  • Ancient Greek: λύχνος (lúkhnos) — oil device producing light
  • Hausa: fitila — oil device producing light
  • Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה (m'norá) — oil device producing light
  • Hindi: बत्ती (battī) — oil device producing light
  • Hindi: चिराग़ (cirāġ) — oil device producing light
  • White Hmong: teeb — oil device producing light
  • Hungarian: olajlámpa — oil device producing light
  • Hungarian: mécses — oil device producing light
  • Irish: lampa — oil device producing light
  • Italian: lampada — oil device producing light
  • Japanese: ランプ (ranpu) — oil device producing light
  • Japanese: 明かり (akari) — oil device producing light
  • Kalmyk: шам (şam) — oil device producing light
  • Kazakh: шам (şam) — oil device producing light
  • Kazakh: шырақ (şyraq) — oil device producing light
  • Khmer: ចង្កៀង (cɑɑcɑngkiəng) — oil device producing light
  • Khmer: ចង្កៀងខ្លាញ់ (cɑɑcɑngkiəng khlañ) — oil device producing light
  • Kom (Cameroon): lâm — oil device producing light
  • Korean: 램프 (raempeu) — oil device producing light
  • Korean: 광명 (gwangmyeong) — oil device producing light
  • Kyrgyz: чырак (cırak) — oil device producing light
  • Kyrgyz: шам (şam) — oil device producing light
  • Latin: lucerna — oil device producing light
  • Latin: laterna — oil device producing light
  • Malay: pelita — oil device producing light
  • Malayalam: വിളക്ക് (viḷakkŭ) — oil device producing light
  • Malayalam: ദീപം (dīpaṁ) — oil device producing light
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lampe — oil device producing light
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lampe — oil device producing light
  • Iranian Persian: چِراغ — oil device producing light
  • Iranian Persian: چَراغ — oil device producing light
  • Plautdietsch: Laump — oil device producing light
  • Polish: lampa — oil device producing light
  • Portuguese: candeia — oil device producing light
  • Romanian: lampă — oil device producing light
  • Romanian: lămpi — oil device producing light
  • Russian: ла́мпа (lámpa) — oil device producing light
  • Russian: свети́льник (svetílʹnik) — oil device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: свѐтӣљка — oil device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: свјѐтӣљка — oil device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: ла̑мпа — oil device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: svètīljka — oil device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: svjètīljka — oil device producing light
  • Serbo-Croatian: lȃmpa — oil device producing light
  • Sindhi: بَتيِ (batī) — oil device producing light
  • Slovak: lampa — oil device producing light
  • Sotho: lebone — oil device producing light
  • Sotho: lampi — oil device producing light
  • Spanish: lámpara — oil device producing light
  • Spanish: candil — oil device producing light
  • Spanish: fogaril — oil device producing light
  • Swahili: taa — oil device producing light
  • Swedish: lampa — oil device producing light
  • Swedish: oljelampa — oil device producing light
  • Tajik: чароғ (čaroġ) — oil device producing light
  • Thai: โคม (koom) — oil device producing light
  • Thai: ประทีป (bprà-tîip) — oil device producing light
  • Tocharian B: cok — oil device producing light
  • Turkish: lamba — oil device producing light
  • Turkish: yağ lambası — oil device producing light
  • Ottoman Turkish: قندیل (kandil) — oil device producing light
  • Ottoman Turkish: سراج (sirac) — oil device producing light
  • Ottoman Turkish: لامپه (lampa) — oil device producing light
  • Ottoman Turkish: مصباح (mısbah) — oil device producing light
  • Urdu: چِراغ (cirāġ) — oil device producing light
  • Urdu: چَراغ (carāġ) — oil device producing light
  • Urdu: بَتّی (battī) — oil device producing light
  • Volapük: lampad — oil device producing light
  • Walloon: lampe — oil device producing light
  • Walloon: crasset — oil device producing light
  • Walloon: lantiene — oil device producing light
  • Walloon: kénket — oil device producing light
  • Welsh: lamp — oil device producing light
  • Yiddish: לאָמפּ (lomp) — oil device producing light
  • Finnish: valaisin — piece of furniture
  • Finnish: lamppu — piece of furniture
  • Russian: ла́мпа (lámpa) — piece of furniture
  • Russian: свети́льник (svetílʹnik) — piece of furniture