# sunlight
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun +‎ light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌnlaɪt
* Hyphenation: sun‧light

### Noun

sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)
* All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.
    Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.
** 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
** 2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars‎:Instead of using unpolarized sunlight as my light source and then filtering it with a polarizer, I can just use my screen as a source of polarized light.
* (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
* Synonym of sunrise.

#### Synonyms

* (light from the sun): daylight, sun, sunshine
* (brightness): hope, optimism
* (sunrise): break of day, first light, sunup; see also Thesaurus:dawn

#### Hypernyms

* light

#### Derived terms

* Port Sunlight
* synchro-sunlight
* sunlight is the best disinfectant

#### Related terms

* sunbeam

#### Translations

Arabic: ضَوْء شَمْس m (ḍawʔ šams), نُور شَمْس m (nūr šams)
Belarusian: со́нечнае святло́ n (sónječnaje svjatló), со́нечнае сьвятло́ n (sónječnaje sʹvjatló)
Bengali: রোদ (bn) (rōd), রোদ্দুর (bn) (rōddur), আফতাব (bn) (aphtab)
Bulgarian: слъ́нчева светлина́ f (slǎ́nčeva svetliná)
Burmese: နေရောင်ခြည် (neraunghkrany)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 陽光 / 阳光 (joeng$^4$ gwong$^1$), 日光 (jat$^6$ gwong$^1$), 太陽光 / 太阳光 (taai$^3$ joeng$^4$ gwong$^1$)
Hakka: 日光 (ngit-kông), 日頭絲 / 日头丝 (ngit-thèu-sî)
Hokkien: 日光 (zh-min-nan) (ji̍t-kng, li̍t-kng, ji̍t-kuiⁿ)
Mandarin: 陽光 / 阳光 (zh) (yángguāng), 日光 (zh) (rìguāng), 太陽光 / 太阳光 (zh) (tàiyángguāng)
Czech: sluneční světlo n
Danish: sollys (da) n
Dutch: zonlicht (nl) n
Eastern Bontoc: omorkiw
Egyptian: (jꜣḫw)
Esperanto: sunlumo
Finnish: auringonvalo (fi)
French: lumière du soleil f
German: Sonnenlicht (de) n
Hindi: धूप (hi) f (dhūp)
Hungarian: napfény (hu)
Icelandic: sólarljós (is) n
Ilocano: raniag ti init
Italian: luce solare f
Japanese: 日光 (ja) (にっこう, nikkō), 太陽光 (ja) (たいようこう, taiyōkō)
Korean: 햇빛 (ko) (haetbit), 일광(日光) (ko) (ilgwang)
Latin: sol (la) m, solis lumen n
Macedonian: сончевина f (sončevina), сончева светлина f (sončeva svetlina)
Malay: cahaya matahari (ms)
Malayalam: വെയിൽ (ml) (veyil), സൂര്യപ്രകാശം (sūryaprakāśaṁ)
Manchu: ᡶᠣᠰᠣᠨ (foson), ᡧᡠᠨ ᡳ ᡝᠯᡩᡝᠨ (šun-i elden)
Navajo: sháńdíín
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sollys (no) n
Nynorsk: solljos n, sollys n
Old English: sunnan lēoma m, sunnan lēoht n
Persian:
Iranian Persian: آفْتاب (fa) (âftâb), نورِ آفْتاب (nur-e âftâb), نورِ خورْشید (nur-e xoršid)
Plautdietsch: Sonnenlicht n
Polish: światło słoneczne n
Portuguese: luz do sol f
Romanian: lumina soarelui f
Russian: со́лнечный свет m (sólnečnyj svet)
Sanskrit: आतप (sa) m (ātapa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сунчева светлост f, сунчева свјетлост f
Roman: sunčeva svetlost f, sunčeva svjetlost f
Slovak: slnečné svetlo n
Slovene: sončna svetloba f
Spanish: luz del sol f
Swahili: mwanga wa jua
Swedish: solljus (sv) n
Tagalog: liwanag ng araw
Tajik: офтоб (tg) (oftob), нури офтоб (nur-i oftob)
Thai: แดด (th) (dɛ̀ɛt), แสงอาทิตย์ (sɛ̌ɛng-aa-tít)
Tok Pisin: lait bilong san
Turkish: güneş ışığı (tr)
Ukrainian: со́нячне світло́ n (sónjačne svitló)
Urdu: دُھوپ f (dhūp)
Vietnamese: ánh nắng, ánh sáng mặt trời
Welsh: heulwen (cy) f :
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### Verb

sunlight (third-person singular simple present sunlights, present participle sunlighting, simple past and past participle sunlighted)
* To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.

### Adjective

sunlight (not comparable)
* Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”)

#### Derived terms

* sunlight zone

### References

* ↑ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988
* sunlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* hustling, unlights