lampshade

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• UK, US: lămp'shād
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• UK, US: /ˈlæmp.ʃeɪd/
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From lamp + shade. The verb sense comes from the idea of making something more conspicuous by hanging a lampshade on it.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: lampskerm — cover over a lamp
• Albanian: abazhur — cover over a lamp
• Arabic: أَبَاجُور (ʔabāžūr) — cover over a lamp
• Arabic: عَاكِس النُّور (ʕākis an-nūr) — cover over a lamp
• Arabic: عَاكِس الضُّوء (ʕākis aḍ-ḍūʔ) — cover over a lamp
• Armenian: լուսամփոփ (lusampʻopʻ) — cover over a lamp
• Armenian: աբաժուր (abažur) — cover over a lamp
• Azerbaijani: abajur — cover over a lamp
• Belarusian: абажу́р (abažúr) — cover over a lamp
• Bulgarian: абажу́р (abažúr) — cover over a lamp
• Burmese: စလောင်း (ca.laung:) — cover over a lamp
• Catalan: pantalla — cover over a lamp
• Chinese Mandarin: 燈罩 /灯罩 (dēngzhào) — cover over a lamp
• Crimean Tatar: abajur — cover over a lamp
• Czech: stínítko — cover over a lamp
• Czech: stínidlo — cover over a lamp
• Danish: lampeskærm — cover over a lamp
• Dutch: lampenkap — cover over a lamp
• Esperanto: lumŝirmilo — cover over a lamp
• Esperanto: abaĵuro — cover over a lamp
• Estonian: lambivari — cover over a lamp
• Finnish: lampunvarjostin — cover over a lamp
• Finnish: varjostin — cover over a lamp
• French: abat-jour — cover over a lamp
• Georgian: აბაჟური (abažuri) — cover over a lamp
• German: Lampenschirm — cover over a lamp
• Greek: αμπαζούρ (ampazoúr) — cover over a lamp
• Haitian Creole: abajou — cover over a lamp
• Hebrew: אהיל (ahíl) — cover over a lamp
• Hindi: दीपछत्र (dīpchatra) — cover over a lamp
• Hungarian: lámpaernyő — cover over a lamp
• Icelandic: lampaskermur — cover over a lamp
• Icelandic: skermur — cover over a lamp
• Indonesian: kap lampu — cover over a lamp
• Irish: clúdach lampa — cover over a lamp
• Irish: scáthlán lampa — cover over a lamp
• Italian: paralume — cover over a lamp
• Japanese: ランプシェード (ranpushēdo) — cover over a lamp
• Japanese: ランプのかさ (ranpu no kasa) — cover over a lamp
• Kazakh: абажур (abajur) — cover over a lamp
• Khmer: ស្រមោលចង្កៀង (srɑmaol cɑŋkiəŋ) — cover over a lamp
• Khmer: គំរបចង្កៀង (kumrɔɔp cɑŋkiəŋ) — cover over a lamp
• Korean: 등갓 (deunggat) — cover over a lamp
• Korean: 스탠드갓 (seutaendeugat) — cover over a lamp
• Northern Kurdish: abajûr — cover over a lamp
• Kyrgyz: абажур (abajur) — cover over a lamp
• Lao: ເກີ້ງ (kœ̄ng) — cover over a lamp
• Latin: umbrāculum lāmpadis — cover over a lamp
• Latvian: abažūrs — cover over a lamp
• Lithuanian: abažūras — cover over a lamp
• Macedonian: абажур (abažur) — cover over a lamp
• Malay: kap lampu — cover over a lamp
• Malay: tudung lampu — cover over a lamp
• Eastern Mari: абажур (abažur) — cover over a lamp
• Mauritian Creole: labazour — cover over a lamp
• Norwegian: lampeskjerm — cover over a lamp
• Norwegian Bokmål: lampeskjerm — cover over a lamp
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lampeskjerm — cover over a lamp
• Persian: آباژور (âbâžur) — cover over a lamp
• Plautdietsch: Laumpenschorm — cover over a lamp
• Polish: abażur — cover over a lamp
• Polish: klosz — cover over a lamp
• Portuguese: abajur — cover over a lamp
• Portuguese: quebra-luz — cover over a lamp
• Portuguese: abaixa-luz — cover over a lamp
• Romani: abazhúra (Kalderash) — cover over a lamp
• Romanian: abajur — cover over a lamp
• Russian: абажу́р (abažúr) — cover over a lamp
• Serbo-Croatian: аба̀жӯр — cover over a lamp
• Serbo-Croatian: сјенило — cover over a lamp
• Serbo-Croatian: abàžūr — cover over a lamp
• Serbo-Croatian: sjènilo — cover over a lamp
• Slovak: tienidlo — cover over a lamp
• Slovene: senčnik — cover over a lamp
• Spanish: pantalla — cover over a lamp
• Swedish: lampskärm — cover over a lamp
• Tagalog: pantalya ng lampaba — cover over a lamp
• Tajik: абажур (abažur) — cover over a lamp
• Tatar: абажур (abajur) — cover over a lamp
• Thai: โป๊ะ (bpó) — cover over a lamp
• Turkish: abajur — cover over a lamp
• Turkish: sayvan — cover over a lamp
• Turkish: örtük — cover over a lamp
• Turkish: kalpak — cover over a lamp
• Turkish: siper — cover over a lamp
• Turkmen: abažur — cover over a lamp
• Ukrainian: абажу́р (abažúr) — cover over a lamp
• Uzbek: abajur — cover over a lamp
• Uzbek: qalpogʻi — cover over a lamp
• Vietnamese: chụp đèn — cover over a lamp
• Vietnamese: tán đèn — cover over a lamp
• Vietnamese: chao đèn — cover over a lamp
• Yiddish: אַבאַזשור (abazhur) — cover over a lamp