# dusk
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /dʌsk/
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* (Northern England) IPA: /dʊsk/
* Rhymes: -ʌsk

### Etymology 1

From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).

#### Adjective

dusk (comparative dusker, superlative duskest)
* Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
** 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

#### Noun

dusk (countable and uncountable, plural dusks)
* The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
* A darkish colour.
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
* The condition of being dusky; duskiness

##### Synonyms

* (period of time): evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers; see also Thesaurus:dusk

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “period of time”): dawn, daybreak; see also Thesaurus:dawn

##### Hypernyms

* (period of time): twilight; see also Thesaurus:twilight

##### Hyponyms

* astronomical dusk
* civil dusk
* nautical dusk

##### Derived terms

* adusk
* dawn to dusk
* duskdarter
* dusk-flat
* duskhawk
* duskish
* duskless
* dusklight
* duskly
* duskness
* dusktime
* from dawn to dusk
* from dusk to dawn
* predusk

##### Translations

Arabic: غَسَق m (ḡasaq)
Armenian: մթնշաղ (hy) (mtʻnšaġ), աղջամուղջ (hy) (aġǰamuġǰ)
Bashkir: эңер (eñer)
Basque: ilunabar
Bhojpuri: गोधूलि (gōdhūli)
Bikol Central: sinarom (bcl)
Bulgarian: здрач (bg) m (zdrač), сумрак (bg) m (sumrak), привечер (bg) f (privečer)
Catalan: crepuscle (ca) m, capvespre (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 黃昏 / 黄昏 (wong$^4$ fan$^1$)
Mandarin: 黃昏 / 黄昏 (zh) (huánghūn), 曫 / 𬁢 (zh) (luán) (rare)
Czech: soumrak (cs) m
Danish: skumring (da) c
Dutch: schemering (nl) f, avondschemering (nl) f
Egyptian: (jḫḫw)
Esperanto: vesperiĝo, vespera krepusko
Estonian: eha
Ewe: wɔle
Finnish: iltahämärä (fi), illansuu
French: crépuscule (fr) m
Galician: anoitecer (gl), bocanoite (gl), entre lusco e fusco, crepúsculo (gl) m
Georgian: მწუხრი (mc̣uxri), დაისი (daisi), ბინდი (bindi), დაბინდება (dabindeba), შებინდება (šebindeba)
German: Abenddämmerung (de) f
Hebrew: בֵּין עַרְבַּייִם (he) m (bein arbáim)
Hindi: गोधूलि (hi) (godhūli)
Hungarian: alkony (hu), szürkület (hu), esthajnal (hu)
Icelandic: ljósaskipti (is) f, húm (is) m, rökkur (is) n
Indonesian: senja (id), sore (id)
Ingrian: hämärä, hämärikko
Irish: coineascar m, clapsholas (ga) m, titim na hoíche f
Italian: crepuscolo (it) m, tramonto (it) m
Japanese: 夕暮れ (ja) (yūgure, ゆうぐれ), 黄昏 (ja) (tasogare, たそがれ; kōkon, こうこん)
Korean: 땅거미 (ko) (ttanggeomi)
Latgalian: mikrieslis
Latin: crepusculum n
Latvian: krēsla (lv) f
Lithuanian: sutemos f pl
Macedonian: самрак m (samrak), квечерина f (kvečerina)
Maguindanao: silam
Malayalam: സായംസന്ധ്യ (sāyaṁsandhya)
Maltese: għabex m
Manchu: ᡤᡝᡵᡥᡝᠨ ᠮᡠᡴᡳᠶᡝᠮᡝ (gerhen mukiyeme)
Maori: māpouriki, pōrehurehu
Navajo: hiłiijį́į́ʼ
Norwegian: skumring (no) m
Persian: شامگاه (fa) (šâmgâh)
Polish: zmierzch (pl) m, zmrok (pl) m
Portuguese: pôr do sol (pt) m, crepúsculo (pt) m, ocaso (pt), anoitecer (pt) m
Romagnol: imbrunìr m
Romanian: crepuscul (ro) apus (ro), amurg (ro) n
Russian: су́мерки (ru) f pl (súmerki)
Samoan: pogipogi
Sanskrit: दोषस् (sa) n (doṣás)
Scottish Gaelic: ciaradh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: су̏мра̄к m, су́тон m
Roman: sȕmrāk (sh) m, súton (sh) m
Spanish: anochecer (es) m, ocaso (es) m, crepúsculo (es) m, crepúsculo vespertino m, lubricán vespertino m
Swedish: skymning (sv) c
Tagalog: takipsilim (tl)
Telugu: మునిమాపు వేళ (munimāpu vēḷa), సాయం సంధ్య (sāyaṁ sandhya)
Udmurt: акшан (akšan)
Ukrainian: су́тінки m pl (sútinky)
Vietnamese: chạng vạng (vi)
Volapük: soaralulit (vo)
Walloon: anuti (wa) f, vesprêye tote basse (wa) f, noer cwårt d' eure m, brune (wa) f, brunete (wa) f
Welsh: llwydnos f
Zazaki: tiji perayen :

##### See also

* dawn
* morning
* noon, midday
* afternoon
* dusk
* evening
* night
* midnight

### Etymology 2

From Middle English dusken, from Old English doxian.

#### Verb

dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)
* (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
** 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems‎, XXXIII, lines 25-27:I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted,
* (transitive) To make dusk.
** 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.

##### Translations
### See also

* “dusk”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* skud

## Middle English
### Adjective

dusk
* Alternative form of dosk