candle

Etymology
From, from , borrowed from , from ; see. .

Noun

 * 1) A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
 * 2) The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
 * 3)  A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
 * 4)  A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.
 * 1) The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
 * 2)  A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
 * 3)  A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: цәымза
 * Acehnese: lilén
 * Afar:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ቫማ, ሻማ
 * Arabic: شَمْعَة,
 * Egyptian Arabic: شمع
 * Hijazi Arabic: شَمْعَة
 * Aragonese: espelma, candela
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: luminare, lunjinare, lumbardã, ayiucheri
 * Assamese:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Baluchi: کنڈل
 * Bashkir: шәм, май шәм
 * Basque: kandela
 * Belarusian: све́чка
 * Bengali:, শামা
 * Bhojpuri: 𑂧𑂷𑂧𑂥𑂞𑂹𑂞𑂲
 * Bouyei: xugt, sancxugt
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Burushaski: شمع
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: kandila
 * Chakma:
 * Chamicuro: kajchi
 * Chechen: чӏурам
 * Chichewa: kandulo
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 蠟燭
 * Dungan: ла
 * Eastern Min: 燭
 * Hakka: 蠟燭
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Northern Min: 蠟燭
 * Wu: 蠟燭
 * Classical Nahuatl: xīcohcuitlaocōtl
 * Cornish: kantol
 * Crimean Tatar: çıraq
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dhivehi: އުއްބައްތި
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: штатол
 * Esperanto: kandelo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: kerta, kertiljós
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Middle French: chandelle
 * Old French: chandoile
 * Friulian: cjandele, čhandele
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სანთელი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌻𐌿𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κηρίων
 * Greenlandic: naneruut
 * Gujarati: મીણબત્તી
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: ihoiho
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Kerz
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Inari Sami: kiintâl
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: toohus, kyntteli
 * Ingush: кӏерам
 * Iranun:
 * Irish:
 * Isthmus Zapotec: guiʼriʼ
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kalmyk: ла
 * Kannada:
 * Karakalpak: sham
 * Kashubian: swiéca
 * Kazakh: шам, май шам
 * Ket: dikkit
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, , 납촉(蠟燭), 랍촉(蠟燭)
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: candēla
 * Latvian: svece
 * Lawa:
 * Eastern Lawa: ตี-เอิน
 * Ligurian: candeja
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: ,
 * Luxembourgish:, Bougie
 * Macedonian: све́ќа
 * Magahi: 𑂧𑂷𑂧𑂥𑂞𑂹𑂞𑂲
 * Maguindanao: ransuk
 * Maithili:
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: xemgħa
 * Manchu: ᠠᠶᠠᠨ ᡩᡝᠩᠵᠠᠨ
 * Manx: cainle
 * Maranao: ransok
 * Marathi: मेणबत्ती
 * Minangkabau: lilin
 * Moksha: штатол
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠯᠠ
 * Nanai: ла
 * Navajo: akʼah diltłiʼí, akʼahkǫʼ níyizígíí
 * Neapolitan: ceroggeno
 * Nihali: मुम्बत्ति
 * Norman: caundèle
 * Northern Khmer:
 * Northern Sami: ginttal
 * Northern Thai: ᨴ᩠ᨿᩁ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, vokslys, levende lys
 * Nynorsk: stearinlys, vokslys
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: свѣшта
 * Old East Slavic: свѣча
 * Old English: candel
 * Oromo: dungoo
 * Ossetian: цырагъ
 * Ottoman Turkish: موم, شمع
 * Pashto: شمعه
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Piedmontese: candèila
 * Plautdietsch: Taulchlicht
 * Polabian: swecja
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਮੋਮਬੱਤੀ
 * Quechua: wila
 * Rakhine:
 * Rohingya: mumbatti
 * Romagnol: candēla
 * Romani: momeli
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: chandaila
 * Russian: ,
 * Saho: shimca
 * Sanskrit: मधुजवर्ती
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: све́ћа, свије́ћа, лоја̀ница, вошта̀ница
 * Roman: svéća, svijéća, ,
 * Sinhalese: ඉටිපන්දම, විලක්කුව, ඉටිපන්‍දම
 * Slovak: svieca, sviečka
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: shumac
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: swěcka
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Sranan Tongo: kandra
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti:
 * Tabasaran: шам
 * Tagalog: kandila, sasang
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: lansuk
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཡང་ལཱ, ཚིལ་བཞུ
 * Tigrinya: ሽምዓ
 * Tongan: teʻelango
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: موم بَتّی, شَمْع
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:, đèn cầy
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: cannwyll
 * Yakan: lansuk
 * Yakut: чүмэчи
 * Yiddish: ליכט
 * Yucatec Maya: k'aak' che'
 * Zhuang: lab, labcuk
 * Zulu: ikhandlela

Verb

 * 1)  To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
 * 2)  To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
 * 3)  To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.