alpenglow

English

WOTD – 12 January 2006

The Italian Dolomites with light shining on them

Etymology

A partial calque of German Alpenglühen, with the second element replaced by the English equivalent glow.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.pən.ɡloʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈal.pən.ɡləʊ/

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• Hyphenation: al‧pen‧glow

Noun

alpenglow (usually uncountable, plural alpenglows)

1. A rosy or reddish glow seen during sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains, especially snow-covered mountains on the opposite side of the sun.
   • 2021 February 16, Dan Richards, “Peak cabin: a fire-spotter's lonely vantage point in Washington state”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But Jim was all smiles and, as if in added welcome, alpenglow suddenly flared to flood the summit hot pink and lit up the cabin.

Derived terms

• aspenglow

Related terms

• Alps
• foreglow, afterglow

Translations

a reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains

• Afrikaans: alpegloei
• Arabic: شَفَق أَلْبِيّ m (šafaq ʔalbiyy)
• Catalan: resplendor alpina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 染山霞 (rǎnshānxiá)

• Dutch: alpengloei m, alpengloeien (nl) n
• Estonian: alpikuma, alpihelendus
• Finnish: alpenglühen, alppihohto
• French: alpenglow (fr) m
• German: Alpenglühen n

  Alemannic German: Alpeglüe

• Italian: enrosadira (it) f
• Japanese: 山頂光 (さんちょうこう, sanchōkō), アルペングロー (arupengurō)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Ladin: enrosadüra f, enrosadöra f, rosadüra f, rosadöra f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alpeglød m

  Nynorsk: alpeglød m

• Russian: свече́ние Альп n (svečénije Alʹp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̑лпскӣ жа̑р m

  Roman: ȃlpskī žȃr m

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: alpglöd c

Further reading

• alpenglow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia