lamp

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light container”).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lămp, IPA^(key): /læmp/

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• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [lɛəmp], [leəmp], [lɛːmp]
• Rhymes: -æmp

lamp (plural lamps)

1. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
2. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
3. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

• See also Thesaurus:light source

• Tok Pisin: lam
• → Korean: 램프 (raempeu)

lamp (third-person singular simple present lamps, present participle lamping, simple past and past participle lamped)

1. (UK, slang) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 337:

     All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face.

2. (UK, Ireland) To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.

   Synonyms: (North America) jacklight, spotlight

3. (slang, US) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
   • 1988 June 28, “Cold Lampin' With Flavor” (track 4), in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back‎, performed by Public Enemy:

     I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays.

4. To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.

• “lamp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Palm, palm, APML, MPLA

From Dutch lamp, from Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”).

• IPA^(key): /lamp/

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lamp (plural lampe, diminutive lampje)

1. lamp

From Middle High German lamp, from Old High German lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz. Cognate with German Lamm, Dutch lam, English lamb, Icelandic lamb.

lamp n (plural lémper, diminutive lèmple)

1. (Sette Comuni) lamb

• “lamp” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”).

• IPA^(key): /lɑmp/

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• Hyphenation: lamp
• Rhymes: -ɑmp

lamp f (plural lampen, diminutive lampje n)

1. lamp

   Zet je de lamp aan? ― Can you turn on the lamp?

   De lamp in de woonkamer is kapot. ― The lamp in the living room is broken.

   Ze heeft een nieuwe lamp voor haar bureau gekocht. ― She bought a new lamp for her desk.

2. (electronics, informal) vacuum tube, thermionic valve

   Synonyms: radiolamp, buis, elektronenbuis, radiobuis

• Afrikaans: lamp
• Berbice Creole Dutch: lampu
• Jersey Dutch: lāmp
• Negerhollands: lamp
• → Japanese: ランプ (ranpu)
• → Malay: lampu
  • Indonesian: lampu
    • → Petjo: lampoe
• → Papiamentu: lampi
• → Sranan Tongo: lampu
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: lamphu
  • → Kari'na: lampu
  • → Lokono: lampu
  • → Trió: rama

• palm

From Middle Low German lampe or German Lampe.

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi)

1. lamp

• lambivari

• → Ingrian: lamppi

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi, comparative lambim, superlative kõige lambim)

1. (colloquial) random

   See on mingi lamp vend.

   He's some random dude.

Onomatopoeic. Compare lame (“flat”), lamama (“to lay down”).

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi, comparative lambim, superlative kõige lambim)

1. flat (as in flat-footed)

   Joosepil on lampis jalad.

   Joosep has flat feet.

Mostly used in the context of flat feet.

lamp

1. Alternative form of laumpe

• IPA^(key): /lɑmp/

lamp

1. first/third-person singular present of limpan

• IPA^(key): /lamp/

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• Rhymes: -amp
• Syllabification: lamp

lamp

1. genitive plural of lampa

lamp (third-person singular simple present lamps, present participle lampin, simple past lampt, past participle lampt)

1. (intransitive) To run wild; to scamper.
2. (intransitive) To go jauntily.

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lamp

1. lamp

• avtolamp
• jauglamp
• lagilamp
• seinlamp
• lampankatuz

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “лампа, светильник”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English lamp

lamp m or f (plural lampau, not mutable)

1. lamp

• llusern

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “lamp”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies