lighter

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• General-American: /ˈlaɪtɚ/
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• General-American: [ˈlaɪɾɚ]
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪtə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈlɑjtə/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈlɑetə/
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• Scotland: /ˈlʌɪtəɾ/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz Proto-West Germanic *leuht Old English lēoht Middle English light English light English -er English lighter From light (“pale”) + -er (“comparative”).

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz Proto-West Germanic *leuht Old English lēoht Middle English light English light English -er English lighter From light (“not heavy, weak”) + -er (“comparative”).

From light (“to ignite”) + -er. Cognate with Middle Dutch lichtere, lichter (“one who spreads light, illuminator”), Dutch lichter, luchter (“candle-holder, chandelier”). Compare also Middle English lightnere, liȝtnere (“one who enlightens or illuminates”).

From Middle English lightere, lyghtere, equivalent to light (“to unload, lighten”) + -er. Compare West Frisian lichter (“lighter ship”), Dutch lichter (“lighter ship”), Middle Low German lichter, lüchter, lüchtære (“a small ship that lightens a load, lighter ship”).

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: aak — fire-making device
• Afrikaans: aanbrandsteker — fire-making device
• Afrikaans: aansteker — fire-making device
• Albanian: çakmak — fire-making device
• Amharic: ማቀጣጠያ (maḳäṭaṭäya) — fire-making device
• Amharic: መለኮሻ (mäläkoša) — fire-making device
• Arabic: قَدَّاحَة (qaddāḥa) — fire-making device
• Arabic: وَلَّاعَة (wallāʕa) — fire-making device
• Arabic: وَلَّاعَة (wallāʕa) — fire-making device
• Arabic: وَلَّاعة (wallāʕa) — fire-making device
• Arabic: بريكة (brīka) — fire-making device
• Arabic: شعالة (šaʕʕala) — fire-making device
• Arabic: قَدَّاحَة (ʔaddāḥa) — fire-making device
• Arabic: قَدَّاحَة (ʔaddāḥa) — fire-making device
• Arabic: وَلَّاعَة (wallāʕa) — fire-making device
• Armenian: կրակվառիչ (krakvaṙičʻ) — fire-making device
• Azerbaijani: alışqan — fire-making device
• Basque: pizgailu — fire-making device
• Basque: metxero — fire-making device
• Belarusian: запальні́чка (zapalʹníčka) — fire-making device
• Bengali: লাইটার (laiṭar) — fire-making device
• Bulgarian: запа́лка (zapálka) — fire-making device
• Burmese: ဓာတ်မီးခြစ် (dhatmi:hkrac) — fire-making device
• Burmese: မီးခြစ် (mi:hkrac) — fire-making device
• Catalan: encenedor — fire-making device
• Chechen: цӏетухург (cʼetuxurg) — fire-making device
• Chinese Cantonese: 火機 /火机 (fo2 gei1) — fire-making device
• Chinese Cantonese: 打火機 /打火机 (daa2 fo2 gei1) — fire-making device
• Hakka Chinese: 賴打 /赖打 (lái-tà) — fire-making device
• Hakka Chinese: 打火機 /打火机 (tá-fó-kî) — fire-making device
• Chinese: 賴打 /赖打 (lài-tah) — fire-making device
• Chinese Mandarin: 打火機 /打火机 (dǎhuǒjī) — fire-making device
• Crimean Tatar: çaqmaq — fire-making device
• Czech: zapalovač — fire-making device
• Danish: lighter — fire-making device
• Danish: cigarettænder — fire-making device
• Danish: fyrtøj — fire-making device
• Dutch: aansteker — fire-making device
• Estonian: tulemasin — fire-making device
• Estonian: välgumihkel — fire-making device
• Faroese: tendrari — fire-making device
• Finnish: sytytin — fire-making device
• Finnish: savukkeensytytin — fire-making device
• Finnish: tupakansytytin — fire-making device
• Finnish: sytkäri — fire-making device
• French: briquet — fire-making device
• Galician: chisqueiro — fire-making device
• Georgian: სანთებელა (santebela) — fire-making device
• German: (handheld) Feuerzeug — fire-making device
• German: Zigarettenanzünder — fire-making device
• Gilbertese: bebete riki — fire-making device
• Greek: αναπτήρας (anaptíras) — fire-making device
• Hebrew: מַצִּית (matsít) — fire-making device
• Hindi: लाइटर (lāiṭar) — fire-making device
• Hungarian: öngyújtó — fire-making device
• Icelandic: kveikjari — fire-making device
• Ido: acendilo — fire-making device
• Indonesian: korek api gas — fire-making device
• Indonesian: pemantik — fire-making device
• Irish: lastóir — fire-making device
• Irish: lastóir toitíní — fire-making device
• Italian: accendino — fire-making device
• Japanese: ライター (raitā) — fire-making device
• Kazakh: шақпақ (şaqpaq) — fire-making device
• Khmer: ដែកកេះ (daek keh) — fire-making device
• Korean: 라이터 (raiteo) — fire-making device
• Northern Kurdish: heste — fire-making device
• Northern Kurdish: çeqmaq — fire-making device
• Kyrgyz: зажигалка (zajigalka) — fire-making device
• Kyrgyz: чакмак (cakmak) — fire-making device
• Lao: ກັບໄຟ (kap fai) — fire-making device
• Lao: ເຫລັກໄຟ (lek fai) — fire-making device
• Lao: ກັບເຫລັກໄຟ (kap lek fai) — fire-making device
• Latin: ignitabulum — fire-making device
• Latvian: šķiltavas — fire-making device
• Latvian: dedzīklis — fire-making device
• Ligurian: bricchettu — fire-making device
• Ligurian: bricchetto — fire-making device
• Lithuanian: žiebtuvėlis — fire-making device
• Low German: Füertüüch — fire-making device
• Macedonian: запалка (zapalka) — fire-making device
• Macedonian: чакмак (čakmak) — fire-making device
• Malay: pemetik api — fire-making device
• Maltese: lajter — fire-making device
• Manx: losseyder — fire-making device
• Manx: eddrymmey — fire-making device
• Māori: pūahi — fire-making device
• Mongolian: асаагуур (asaaguur) — fire-making device
• Norwegian Bokmål: lighter — fire-making device
• Norwegian Bokmål: sigarettenner — fire-making device
• Norwegian Bokmål: fyrtøy — fire-making device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fyrtøy — fire-making device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tennar — fire-making device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lighter — fire-making device
• Pashto: لایټر (lāyṭar) — fire-making device
• Dari: لَایْتَر (lāytar) — fire-making device
• Iranian Persian: فَنْدَک (fandak) — fire-making device
• Plautdietsch: Hupjebrenna — fire-making device
• Polabian: vigneně tüďai — fire-making device
• Polish: zapalniczka — fire-making device
• Portuguese: acendedor — fire-making device
• Portuguese: isqueiro — fire-making device
• Romanian: brichetă — fire-making device
• Russian: зажига́лка (zažigálka) — fire-making device
• Serbo-Croatian: упа̀ља̄ч — fire-making device
• Serbo-Croatian: upàljāč — fire-making device
• Sicilian: azzarinu — fire-making device
• Slovak: zapaľovač — fire-making device
• Slovene: vžigalnik — fire-making device
• Sotho: segôtêtši — fire-making device
• Spanish: encendedor — fire-making device
• Spanish: briquet — fire-making device
• Spanish: fosforera — fire-making device
• Spanish: lighter — fire-making device
• Spanish: mechero — fire-making device
• Spanish: yesquero — fire-making device
• Sundanese: gérétan — fire-making device
• Swahili: vibiriti vya chuma — fire-making device
• Swedish: tändare — fire-making device
• Tagalog: pansindi — fire-making device
• Tajik: оташафрӯзак (otašafrüzak) — fire-making device
• Tajik: нимирӯзӣ (nimirüzi) — fire-making device
• Tetum: iskeiru — fire-making device
• Thai: ไฟแช็ก (fai-chɛ́k) — fire-making device
• Tibetan: སླ་བ (sla ba) — fire-making device
• Tongan: masi — fire-making device
• Turkish: çakmak — fire-making device
• Turkmen: çakmak — fire-making device
• Ukrainian: запальни́чка (zapalʹnýčka) — fire-making device
• Urdu: لائِٹَر (lāiṭar) — fire-making device
• Uyghur: چاقماق (chaqmaq) — fire-making device
• Uzbek: zajigalka — fire-making device
• Uzbek: chaqmoq — fire-making device
• Vietnamese: bật lửa — fire-making device
• Vietnamese: hộp quẹt — fire-making device
• Volapük: filidöm — fire-making device
• Welsh: taniwr — fire-making device
• Yiddish: אָנצינדער (ontsinder) — fire-making device
• Zazaki: adırge (diq) — fire-making device
• Zulu: into yokukhanyisa — fire-making device
• Danish: lægter — a barge
• Danish: ligter — a barge
• Dutch: lichter — a barge
• Finnish: lehteri — a barge
• German: Leichter — a barge
• Greek: φορτηγίδα (fortigída) — a barge
• Hebrew: פּוֹרֶקֶת (poréket) — a barge
• Icelandic: prammi — a barge
• Norwegian Bokmål: lekter — a barge
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lekter — a barge
• Polish: lichtuga — a barge
• Russian: ли́хтер (líxter) — a barge
• Russian: шала́нда (šalánda) — a barge
• Swedish: liktare — a barge