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From photo- + -on. Coined by American physicist Leonard Troland in 1916 as a unit of light hitting the retina, and later popularized in a more modern sense by Gilbert N. Lewis, with the term gaining acceptance in the physics community by the late 1920s.

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فُوتُون (futūn) — quantum of light
• Armenian: ֆոտոն (foton) — quantum of light
• Asturian: fotón — quantum of light
• Basque: fotoi — quantum of light
• Belarusian: фато́н (fatón) — quantum of light
• Bengali: ফোটন (phōṭon) — quantum of light
• Bulgarian: фото́н (fotón) — quantum of light
• Burmese: ဖိုတွန် (hpui-twan) — quantum of light
• Catalan: fotó — quantum of light
• Chinese: 光子 (kng chú) — quantum of light
• Chinese Mandarin: 光子 (guāngzǐ) — quantum of light
• Czech: foton — quantum of light
• Danish: foton — quantum of light
• Dutch: foton — quantum of light
• Dutch: lichtdeeltje — quantum of light
• Esperanto: fotono — quantum of light
• Estonian: footon — quantum of light
• Estonian: valguseosake — quantum of light
• Finnish: fotoni — quantum of light
• Finnish: valohiukkanen — quantum of light
• Finnish: valokvantti — quantum of light
• French: photon — quantum of light
• Galician: fotón — quantum of light
• Georgian: ფოტონი (poṭoni) — quantum of light
• German: Photon — quantum of light
• German: Lichtteilchen — quantum of light
• Greek: φωτόνιο (fotónio) — quantum of light
• Gujarati: પ્રકાશાણુ (prakāśāṇu) — quantum of light
• Hebrew: פוטון — quantum of light
• Hindi: प्रकाशाणु (prakāśāṇu) — quantum of light
• Hindi: फ़ोटोन (foṭon) — quantum of light
• Hungarian: foton — quantum of light
• Icelandic: ljóseind — quantum of light
• Icelandic: fótóna — quantum of light
• Icelandic: ljósögn — quantum of light
• Ido: fotono — quantum of light
• Italian: fotone — quantum of light
• Japanese: 光子 (kōshi) — quantum of light
• Khmer: អាភាណូ (aaphie noo) — quantum of light
• Korean: 광자 (gwangja) — quantum of light
• Low German: Lichtdeelken — quantum of light
• Macedonian: фотон (foton) — quantum of light
• Malagasy: voan-kazavana — quantum of light
• Malay: foton — quantum of light
• Māori: pūaho — quantum of light
• Marathi: प्रकाशाणू (prakāśāṇū) — quantum of light
• Mongolian: фотон ᠹᠣᠲ᠋ᠣᠨ (foton) — quantum of light
• Nepali: प्रकाशाणु (prakāśāṇu) — quantum of light
• Norwegian: foton — quantum of light
• Norwegian: lyskvant — quantum of light
• Norwegian Bokmål: lyskvant — quantum of light
• Norwegian Bokmål: foton — quantum of light
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lyskvant — quantum of light
• Norwegian Nynorsk: foton — quantum of light
• Persian: فوتون (foton) — quantum of light
• Polish: foton — quantum of light
• Brazilian Portuguese: fóton — quantum of light
• European Portuguese: fotão — quantum of light
• Romanian: foton — quantum of light
• Russian: фото́н (fotón) — quantum of light
• Sanskrit: प्रकाशाणु (prakāśāṇu) — quantum of light
• Serbo-Croatian: фо̀то̄н — quantum of light
• Serbo-Croatian: fòtōn — quantum of light
• Spanish: fotón — quantum of light
• Swahili: fotoni — quantum of light
• Swedish: foton — quantum of light
• Tagalog: sugapik — quantum of light
• Tamil: ஒளியன் (oḷiyaṉ) — quantum of light
• Thai: โฟตอน (fohdton) — quantum of light
• Turkish: foton — quantum of light
• Ukrainian: фото́н (fotón) — quantum of light
• Vietnamese: quang tử — quantum of light
• Võro: foodon — quantum of light
• Welsh: ffoton — quantum of light