sun dog

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsʌn dɒɡ/
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• General-American: /ˈsʌn ˌdɔɡ/
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• General-American, cot-caught-merger: /-ˌdɑɡ/
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PIE word *sóh2wl̥ From sun + dog (“(figurative) a visible atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon”) ; metaphorically refers to the bright spots of light that appear to "dog" or follow the real sun, much like a dog follows its owner.

85 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: parhelium — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Arabic: شمس كاذبة — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Armenian: պարհելիում (parhelium) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Basque: parelio — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Bengali: মায়া সূর্য (maẏa śurjo) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Bulgarian: лъжливо слънце (lǎžlivo slǎnce) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Bulgarian: пархелий (parhelij) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Catalan: parheli — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Chinese Mandarin: 幻日 (huànrì) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Czech: parhelium — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Czech: paslunce — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Czech: vedlejší slunce — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Danish: bisol — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Dutch: bijzon — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Dutch: parhelium — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Estonian: ebapäiksed — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Estonian: kõrvalpäiksed — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Estonian: päikesesapp — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Estonian: parheelia — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Finnish: auringonsappi — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Finnish: sivuaurinko — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• French: parhélie — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• German: Nebensonne — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Hebrew: כלבי השמש — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Hungarian: cimbora — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Hungarian: melléknap — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Hungarian: napkutya — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Hungarian: naphalo — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Hungarian: parhelion — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Hungarian: vaknap — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Icelandic: aukasól — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Icelandic: gíll — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Icelandic: hjásól — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Icelandic: úlfakreppa — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Icelandic: úlfur — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Indonesian: parhelion — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Italian: parelio — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Japanese: 幻日 (genjitsu) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Kazakh: сағым күн (sağym kün) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Korean: 환일 (hwanil) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Central Kurdish: خۆرەدرۆزنە (xoredrozne) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Latin: parhēlium — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Lower Tanana: dedzeyi noxwdalk'onh — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Luxembourgish: niewesonn — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Luxembourgish: parhelion — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Macedonian: лажно сонце (lažno sonce) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Malayalam: സൺ ഡോഗ്സ് (saṇ ḍōgsŭ) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Māori: imurangi — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Navajo: shá bitłʼájiiłchiiʼ — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Norn: gallj — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Norwegian Bokmål: solhund — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Norwegian Bokmål: bisol — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Norwegian Nynorsk: solulv — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bisol — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Persian: خورشید کاذب (xoršid-e kâzeb) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Persian: خورشید مجازی — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Persian: عکس خورشید — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Persian: پیراخورشید — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Plautdietsch: Biesonn — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Polish: parhelion — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Polish: słońce poboczne — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Portuguese: falso sol — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Portuguese: parélio — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Romanian: halou — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Russian: ло́жное со́лнце (lóžnoje sólnce) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Russian: парге́лий (pargélij) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: ла̏жно су̑нце — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: па̀сӯнце — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: lȁžno sȗnce — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Serbo-Croatian: pàsūnce — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Slovene: parhelij — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Slovene: pasonce — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Spanish: parhelio — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Swedish: solvarg — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Swedish: bisol — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Swedish: vädersol — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Turkish: yalancı güneş — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Ukrainian: паргелій (parhelij) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Urdu: آفتاب کاذب — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Uyghur: ساختا قۇياش (saxta quyash) — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Vietnamese: mặt trời giả — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Vietnamese: mặt trời ma — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Welsh: ci haul — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Welsh: ffug haul — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals
• Welsh: parhelion — bright spot in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun’s image through ice crystals