Lamp

See also: lamp

English

Proper noun

Lamp (plural Lamps)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lamp is the 8209^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4042 individuals. Lamp is most common among White (94.36%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Palm, palm, APML, MPLA

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamp/

Noun

Lamp f (plural Lampe, diminutive Lempche)

1. lamp

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamp/
• Rhymes: -amp

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos.

Alternative forms

• lamp, lamb (Veldeke spelling)
• Lam (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling, newer realisation)
• Lǫmp (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling, other variant)

Noun

Lamp n (plural Lame̩r or Läme̩r, diminutive Lämke̩ or Lämpke̩) (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling, various dialects)

1. lamb, the young of a sheep
2. (metonymically) The meat produce of a lamb; a dish prepared from lamb's meat

   Synonym: Lamsvleisch

Usage notes

• The word has lost the final -p in many dialects, though it is often retained in compound terms. A number of dialects (mostly rural) still retain the final -p as well.
• Some dialects, instead of using this word, use the diminutive of Schǫǫp (“sheep”) to refer to a lamb.

Etymology 2

From Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”)

Alternative forms

• lamp (Veldeke spelling)
• Lammp (Eupen, spelling)

Noun

Lamp f (plural Lampe̩, diminutive Lämpke̩) (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling, widespread)

1. lamp, light (piece of furniture, or fixture mounted on a wall or ceiling, holding one or more electric light sockets)
2. Clipping of Pitschlamp; flashlight