lighter

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬,. Compare also 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) A person who lights things.
 * 2)  A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.
 * 1)  A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: aak, aanbrandsteker, aansteker
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ማቀጣጠያ, መለኮሻ
 * Arabic: قَدَّاحَة, وَلَّاعَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: وَلَّاعَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: وَلَّاعة
 * North Levantine Arabic: قَدَّاحَة
 * South Levantine Arabic: قَدَّاحَة, وَلَّاعَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: pizgailu,
 * Belarusian: запальні́чка
 * Bengali: লাইটার
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: цӏетухург
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 火機, 打火機
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: çaqmaq
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, cigarettænder ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: tulemasin, välgumihkel
 * Faroese: tendrari
 * Finnish:, savukkeensytytin, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სანთებელა
 * German:, Zigarettenfeuerzeug,
 * Gilbertese: bebete riki
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: लाइटर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: korek api gas,
 * Irish: lastóir, lastóir toitíní
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: шақпақ
 * Khmer: ដែកកេះ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao:, ເຫລັກໄຟ, ກັບເຫລັກໄຟ
 * Latin: ignitabulum
 * Latvian: šķiltavas, dedzīklis
 * Ligurian: bricchettu, bricchetto
 * Lithuanian: žiebtuvėlis
 * Low German:
 * Macedonian: запалка, чакмак
 * Malay: lebih ringan
 * Maltese: lajter
 * Manx: losseyder, eddrymmey
 * Maori: pūahi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: lighter, sigarettenner, fyrtøy
 * Nynorsk: fyrtøy, tennar, lighter
 * Pashto: لایټر
 * Persian:
 * Dari: لایْتَر
 * Plautdietsch: Hupjebrenna
 * Polabian: vigneně tüďai
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: acendedor,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samoan:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: упа̀ља̄ч
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: azzarinu
 * Slovak: zapaľovač
 * Slovene: vžigalnik
 * Sotho: segôtêtši
 * Spanish:, briquet , fosforera , lighter , , yesquero
 * Sundanese: gérétan
 * Swahili: vibiriti vya chuma
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: pansindi
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tetum: iskeiru
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སླ་བ
 * Tongan: masi
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: çakmak
 * Ukrainian: запальни́чка
 * Urdu: لائِٹَر
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: taniwr
 * Yiddish: אָנצינדער
 * Zazaki:
 * Zulu: into yokukhanyisa

Etymology 2
From, , equivalent to. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,,.

Noun

 * 1) A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:, ligter
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic: prammi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: lekter
 * Nynorsk: lekter
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: liktare

Verb

 * 1) To transfer (cargo or passengers) to or from a ship by means of a lighter or other small vessel.
 * 2) * 1900. Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War with Spain. Vol. 7, pg. 3227.
 * Troops and stores were lightered to the wharves inside the harbor by steamers Orizaba and Berkshire.
 * 1) To transfer cargo or fuel from (a ship), lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  lighter