A flashlight.
Etymology
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flash + light
Pronunciation
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flashlight (plural flashlights )
( US , Canada ) A battery -powered hand-held light source .
1997 , Saul Bellow , The Actual , New York: Viking, page 32 :At school he used to do Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr. Hyde, shining a flashlight into his face.
A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).
1943 , Sinclair Lewis , chapter XIII, in Gideon Planish , London: Jonathan Cape, page 121 :He sat in an arm-chair with his forefinger to his temple, and when the photographer's flashlight went off, he hoped that the hotel had caught fire and that this would end it all.
1992 , Adam Thorpe , Ulverton , New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1994 , page 235 :[ …] the flashlight exploded like a tiny bomb, making the Vicar jump a little, which explains why his face is a thankful blur, his deadly role forgotten to history (I have the photograph before me now).
2006 , Stefan Zweig , translated by Anthea Bell , Chess , London: Penguin:[ …] two or three bright flashlights went off close to us. It seemed that some prominent person was being quickly interviewed by reporters and photographed just before the ship left.
( obsolete ) A photograph taken with a flash camera .
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(hand-held light source ) torch (UK , Aus , NZ )
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Translations
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battery-powered hand-held light source
Afrikaans: flits
Arabic: مَشْعَل m ( mašʕal )
Hijazi Arabic: كَشَّاف m ( kaššāf )
Armenian: լապտեր (hy) ( lapter ) , գրպանի էլեկտրական լապտեր ( grpani ēlektrakan lapter ) , ձեռքի լապտեր ( jeṙkʻi lapter )
Asturian: llinterna f
Azerbaijani: cib fənəri , fənər
Belarusian: ліхта́рык m ( lixtáryk ) , ліхта́р m ( lixtár )
Bengali: টর্চলাইট ( ṭorcolaiṭ )
Bulgarian: ръ́чно фене́рче n ( rǎ́čno fenérče )
Burmese: တုတ်မီး (my) ( tutmi: )
Catalan: llanterna (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 手電筒 / 手电筒 (zh) ( shǒudiàntǒng )
Czech: baterka (cs) f
Danish: stavlygte c , lommelygte (da) c
Dhivehi: ޓޯޗު ( ṭōcu )
Dutch: zaklamp (nl) f , zaklantaarn (nl) f
Esperanto: poŝlampo
Estonian: taskulamp
Farefare: laatɩ
Faroese: lummalykt f
Finnish: taskulamppu (fi)
French: lampe de poche (fr) f , lampe torche (fr) f
Galician: lanterna (gl) f , foco (gl) m
Georgian: ელექტრო ფარანი ( elekṭro parani )
German: Taschenlampe (de) f
Greek: φακός (el) m ( fakós )
Gujarati: હાથબત્તી ( hāthbattī )
Hebrew: פָּנָס (he) m ( panás )
Hindi: टार्च m ( ṭārc )
Hungarian: elemlámpa (hu) , zseblámpa (hu)
Icelandic: vasaljós n
Indonesian: senter (id)
Irish: tóirse m
Italian: torcia elettrica f , pila (it) f
Japanese: 懐中電燈 ( かいちゅうでんとう, kaichū dentō ) , トーチ (ja) ( tōchi )
Jarawa: ʈorči
Kazakh: қалта шам ( qalta şam )
Khmer: ពិល (km) ( pɨl ) , អគ្និមណី ( ʼakniʼ mĕəʼnii ) , កែវឆ្លុះ ( kaew chloh )
Korean: 등불 ( deungbul ) , 손전등 (ko) ( sonjeondeung ) , 토치 ( tochi )
Kutenai: kaǂnuqaxni·muǂ
Kyrgyz: фонарча ( fonarca ) , колчырак ( kolcırak )
Lao: ໄຟສາຍ ( fai sāi )
Latin: lanterna (la) f
Latvian: lukturis (lv) m
Lithuanian: kišeninis žibintuvėlis m , žibintuvėlis m
Macedonian: све́тилка f ( svétilka ) , бате́риска све́тилка f ( batériska svétilka )
Malay: lampu picit
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гар чийдэн ( gar čiiden )
Navajo: bee nʼdildlaadí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lommelykt m or f
Nynorsk: lommelykt f
Persian: چراغ قوه (fa) ( čerâğ qovve )
Polish: latarka (pl) f
Portuguese: lanterna (pt) f
Romanian: lanternă (ro) f
Russian: фона́рик (ru) m ( fonárik ) , фона́рь (ru) m ( fonárʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: lòchran m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ба̀те̄рија f
Roman: bàtērija (sh) f
Slovak: baterka f
Slovene: svetilka (sl) f
Spanish: linterna (es) f , ( Costa Rica, Nicaragua ) foco (es) m , lámpara (es) f
Swahili: tochi (sw)
Swedish: ficklampa (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: ไฟฉาย (th) ( fai-chǎai )
Tibetan: གློག་ཞུ ( glog zhu ) , སྦི་ཅི་ལི ( sbi ci li )
Turkish: fener (tr) , el feneri (tr)
Ukrainian: ліхта́рик m ( lixtáryk ) , ліхта́р m ( lixtár ) ( big one )
Urdu: ٹارچ m ( ṭārc )
Uzbek: fonarcha
Vietnamese: đèn pin (vi)
Volapük: pokalampad
Welsh: fflachlamp f
Yami: dingki
flashlight (third-person singular simple present flashlights , present participle flashlighting , simple past and past participle flashlit )
( transitive ) To illuminate with a flashlight.
2011 , Bart Bare, Wadmalaw: A Ghost Story , page 51 :Autis stepped carefully while flashlighting the fog in front of himself and Gar.
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