# night
## English
### Alternative forms

* nite (informal)

### Etymology

From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).
Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Danish nat (“night”), Swedish and Norwegian natt (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्त (naktá), नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.

### Pronunciation

* (US, UK) enPR: nīt, IPA: /naɪt/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (UK, Scotland, Canada) IPA: /nʌɪt/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪt
* Homophones: knight, nite

### Noun

night (countable and uncountable, plural nights)
* (countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
    Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.
** 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
** 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
* (astronomy, countable) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
* (law, countable) A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
* (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
    a night on the town
** 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
* (countable) A day, or at least a night.
    I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
* (uncountable) Nightfall.
    from noon till night
* (uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
    The cat disappeared into the night.
* (uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
    night:
* (sports, colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

#### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:night.

#### Synonyms

* (evening or night spent at a particular activity): evening; see also Thesaurus:nighttime or Thesaurus:evening
* (quality of sleep): sleep
* (nightfall): dark, dusk, nightfall, sundown, sunset; see also Thesaurus:dusk
* (darkness): blackness, darkness, gloom, obscurity, shadow

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “period between sunset and sunrise”): day; see also Thesaurus:daytime
* (antonym(s) of “darkness”): brightness, daylight, light

#### Hypernyms

* 24-hour day

#### Hyponyms

* first night
* last night
* midnight
* tomorrow night
* tonight
* Twelfth Night
* yesterday night (rare compared to last night)

#### Derived terms

* all cats are gray at night
* all cats are grey at night
* all cats are grey by night
* all night
* all-night
* all-nighter, allnighter
* all-night-man
* alnight
* amateur night
* American night heron
* anight
* at night
* Azara's night monkey
* back-to-school night
* bank night
* barnight
* because you touch yourself at night
* benight
* be on nights
* bin night
* birthnight
* black as night
* black-crowned night heron
* born at night but not last night
* buck's night
* Burns Night
* Burns night
* by night
* call it an early night
* call it a night
* clubnight
* club night
* Cracker Night
* creature of the night
* dark night
* dark night of the soul
* date night
* day and night
* day-and-night
* day for night
* day-night
* day-night cycle
* day or night
* day-to-night
* dead of night
* deepnight
* early night
* election night
* Eleventh Night
* evennight
* everynight
* field night
* fireworks night
* fly-by-night
* forenight
* fortnight
* fortnightly
* Friday night lights
* girls' night out
* go gentle into that good night
* go night-night
* good-night
* goodnight
* gray night
* grey night
* guest night
* guinea pig night
* half-night stand
* have a night of it
* hell night
* hen night
* hens' night
* holinight
* how can you sleep at night
* how do you sleep at night
* internight
* intranight
* it'll be all right on the night
* Japanese night heron
* keep someone up at night
* ladies' night
* lady of the night
* late-night
* late night
* like night and day
* long night moon
* make a night of it
* Malayan night heron
* midnight
* morning after the night before
* morning-noon-and-night
* multinight
* night adder
* night after night
* night air
* night-and-day
* night and day
* night auditor
* night-bat
* night bird
* night-biter
* night biter
* night-blind
* night blind
* night blindness
* night-blooming jasmine
* nightbreak
* nightbreeze
* night-bright
* night cap
* nightcap
* night-cap
* night-cart
* night cart
* night-cellar
* night chair
* nightchurr
* night class
* nightcloth
* nightclothes
* nightclub
* night club
* nightclubbing
* nightcore
* night court
* night courting
* nightcrawler
* night crawler
* night crawling
* night cream
* night diaper
* nightdream
* nightdreaming
* nightdress
* night-dress
* night eating syndrome
* night emission
* nighten
* nighter
* nightery
* night eye
* night-fall
* nightfall
* nightfaring
* nightfear
* night fear
* night-fear
* night fighter
* nightfire
* night-flowering jasmine
* night fly
* nightfright
* night frog
* nightful
* night game
* nightgear
* night-glass
* night glass
* nightglow
* nightgown
* night-gown
* night green
* nightguard
* night-hag
* night hag
* nighthawk
* night hawk
* night-heron
* night heron
* night house
* night-house
* night hunter
* night hunting
* nightie
* nightingale
* nightish
* night-jar
* nightjar
* night jasmine
* night job
* nightlamp
* nightless
* night letter
* nightlife
* night-lifer
* night light
* nightlight
* nightlike
* nightline
* night lizard
* nightlong
* nightly
* night man
* night-man
* nightman
* nightmarcher
* nightmare
* nightmarish
* night market
* night meal
* night mode
* night monkey
* night moth
* night nappy
* night-night
* night night
* Night of Broken Glass
* night of long knives
* Night of Sevens
* night of the long knives
* night out
* night-owl
* night owl
* night palsy
* night parrot
* night person
* nightpiece
* night-rail
* night-raven
* nightrider
* night rider
* night-riding
* nightrobe
* night safe
* nightscape
* night school
* nightscope
* nightshade
* night shelter
* night shift
* nightshining
* nightshirt
* nightside
* night sky
* night-sky
* night snake
* night-soil
* night soil
* night soil man
* night spot
* nightspot
* nightstand
* night start
* nightstick
* night stick
* nightstool
* nightsuit
* night sweats
* nightswimming
* night table
* night terror
* nighttide
* night time
* nighttime, night-time
* night tremor
* night-tripping
* night vision
* nightwalker
* nightwalking
* nightward
* nightwards
* night-watch
* night watch
* nightwatch
* night watchman
* nightwatchman
* night-watchman
* night-watchman state
* night watchman state
* nightwear
* night wind
* nightwork
* night work
* night writing
* nighty
* nighty night
* nighty-night
* nine night
* noon of night
* one-dog night
* one-night stand
* opening night
* outnight
* over night
* overnight
* paynight
* polar night
* pretty-by-night
* Punkie Night
* queen of the night
* Rodrigues night heron
* Saturday night palsy
* Saturday-night special
* Saturday night special
* school night
* sennight
* seven-night
* sevennight
* ships in the night
* ships passing in the night
* ships that passed in the night
* ships that pass in the night
* soap night
* stag night
* stay the night
* stranger in the night
* the freaks come out at night
* the night before last
* the night is young
* thief in the night
* things that go bump in the night
* three dog night
* three-dog night
* time of night
* Tobias night
* to-night
* tonight
* Trafalgar Night dinner
* Twelfth Night pie
* twi-night
* twinight
* under cover of night
* Walpurgis night
* watch night
* watch-night
* watchnight
* watch of the night
* wedding night
* weeknight
* whatever helps you sleep at night
* white night
* Whitsun-night
* woman of the night
* worknight
* work nights
* yesternight

#### Descendants

* → Pijin: naet
* → Korean: 나이트 (naiteu)

#### Translations

Abinomn: siwi
Abkhaz: аҵх (acʼx), аҵых (acʼəx)
Acehnese: malam
Adyghe: чэщы (čɛśə); чэщ (čɛś) (Shapsug)
Afar: bar
Afrikaans: nag (af)
Ahom: 𑜁𑜢𑜤𑜃𑜫 (khün)
Ainu: アンチカㇻ (ancikar)
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Akkadian: 𒆥𒋝 (liliātu)
Albanian: natë (sq) f (indefinite), nata f (definite)
American Sign Language: BentB@BackHand-PalmDown-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Contact
Amharic: ሌት (let), ሌሊት (lelit)
Arabic: لَيْلَة f (layla), لَيْل (ar) (layl)
Egyptian Arabic: ليل m (lēl) (collective), ليلة f (lēla)
Gulf Arabic: بليل
Hijazi Arabic: ليلة f (lēla), ليل m (lēl)
Aragonese: nueit f, nuei f
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܝܠܹܐ m (layle)
Classical Syriac: ܠܠܝܐ m (lilyā’)
Hebrew: לליא m (lilyā’)
Archi: иш (iš)
Armenian: գիշեր (hy) (gišer)
Aromanian: noapti f, noapte f, nopti f
Assamese: ৰাতি (rati)
Asturian: nueche (ast) f
Atayal: gbyan
Avar: сордо (sordo)
Avestan: 𐬑𐬴𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬥 f (xšapan), 𐬥𐬀𐬑𐬙𐬎 (naxtu)
Aymara: aruma (ay)
Azerbaijani: gecə (az)
Bakhtiari: شو (šaw)
Baluchi: شپ (šap)
Bashkir: төн (tön)
Basque: gau (eu)
Bavarian: Nocht
Belarusian: ноч (be) f (noč)
Bengali: রাত (bn) (rat)
Bhojpuri: 𑂩𑂰𑂞𑂱 (rāti), राति (rāti), रात (rāt)
Big Nambas: lihat
Bikol Central: banggi (bcl)
Breton: noz (br)
Buginese: wenni
Bulgarian: нощ (bg) f (nošt)
Burmese: ည (my) (nya.)
Buryat: һүни (hüni)
Carpathian Rusyn: нуч f (nuč)
Catalan: nit (ca) f
Catawba: witchawa
Cebuano: gabii
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⴹ (iḍ)
Central Dusun: doungotuong
Central Mazahua: xomu̷
Central Sierra Miwok: kawý·ly-
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Cham:
Eastern Cham: please add this translation if you can
Western Cham: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: chpolyaye
Chamorro: puengi
Chechen: буьйса (büüsa)
Cherokee: ᏒᎠᏱ (svayi)
Cheyenne: táa'e
Chickasaw: oklhili
Chinese:
Cantonese: 夜晚 (je$^6$ maan$^5$)
Dungan: е (i͡ə), еван (i͡əvan), ванщи (vanxi)
Hokkien: 暗暝 (zh-min-nan) (àm-mê, àm-mî), 暗頭 / 暗头 (àm-thâu), 暝時 / 暝时 (zh-min-nan) (mê-sî, mî-sî), 暗時 / 暗时 (zh-min-nan) (àm-sî)
Mandarin: 夜晚 (zh) (yèwǎn), 夜 (zh) (yè), 宵 (zh) (xiāo)
Wu: 夜到
Chukchi: ныкирит (nykirit)
Chuvash: ҫӗр (śĕr)
Coptic:
Bohairic: ⲉϫⲱⲣϩ (ečōrh)
Sahidic: ⲟⲩϣⲏ (oušē)
Cornish: nos f
Crimean Tatar: gece
Czech: noc (cs) f
Dalmatian: nuat
Danish: nat (da) c
Dargwa: дуги (dugi)
Dhivehi: ރޭ (rē)
Dolgan: түүн (tüün)
Dutch: nacht (nl) m
Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
Eastern Arrernte: ingwe
Eastern Bontoc: lafi
Egyptian: (grḥ m)
Emilian: nôt f
Erzya: ве (ve)
Eshtehardi: شو (šow)
Esperanto: nokto (eo)
Estonian: öö (et)
Even: долбани (dolʙaņi)
Evenki: долбони (dolboņi)
Ewe: zã
Extremaduran: nochi f
Faroese: nátt (fo) f
Finnish: yö (fi)
French: nuit (fr) f
Friulian: gnot f
Gagauz: gecä
Galician: noite (gl) f, madrugada (gl) f (after midnight)
Ge'ez: ሌሊት (lelit)
Georgian: ღამე (ka) (ɣame)
German: Nacht (de) f
Middle High German: naht f
Gilbertese: bong
Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (nahts)
Greek: νύχτα (el) f (nýchta)
Ancient: νύξ f (núx)
Greenlandic: unnuk
Guaraní: pyhare
Gujarati: રાત f (rāt), રાત્રી (gu) f (rātrī)
Haitian Creole: lannuit
Hawaiian: pō
Hebrew: לַיְלָה (he) m (láyla)
Higaonon: daluman
Hindi: रात (hi) f (rāt), रात्रि (hi) f (rātri), रात्र (hi) f (rātra), राति (hi) f (rāti), निशा (hi) f (niśā)
Hittite: 𒅖𒉺𒀭𒍝 c (išpanz)
Hungarian: éjszaka (hu), éjjel (hu), éj (hu)
Hunsrik: Nacht f, naacht f
Iban: malam
Icelandic: nótt (is) f, (archaic) nátt (is) f, (skaldic) njóla (is) f
Ido: nokto (io)
Igala: òdu
Ilocano: rabii
Indonesian: malam (id)
Ingrian: öö, öökaus (rare)
Ingush: бийса (biı̇sa)
Iranun: magabi
Irish: oíche (ga) f
Old Irish: adaig f
Isnag: xabi
Istriot: nuoto
Istro-Romanian: nopte f
Italian: notte (it) f
Japanese: 夜 (ja) (よる, yoru, よ, yo)
Javanese: wengi
Jeju: 밤 (bam)
Kabardian: жэщ (kbd) (žɛś)
Kalasha: rat
Kalmyk: сө (sö)
Kannada: ಇರುಳು (kn) (iruḷu), ರಾತ್ರಿ (kn) (rātri)
Kanuri: búne
Kapampangan: bengi
Karachay-Balkar: кече (keçe)
Karakalpak: tún
Kashmiri: راتھ (ks) f (rāth)
Kashubian: noc (csb) f
Kazakh: түн (tün)
Ket: си
Khakas: тӱн (tün)
Khiamniungan Naga: āshēuh
Khmer: យប់ (km) (yup), រាត្រី (km) (riətrəy)
Khowar: چُھوئی (čhuí)
Komi-Permyak: вой (voj)
Korean: 밤 (ko) (bam)
Koryak: ныкинык (nəkinək)
Kumyk: гече (geçe)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شەو (ckb) (şew)
Northern Kurdish: şev (ku) f
Kyrgyz: түн (ky) (tün)
Ladino: noche f
Lak: хьхьу (x̂:u)
Lao: ຄືນ (khư̄n)
Latgalian: nakts f
Latin: nox (la) f
Latvian: nakts (lv) f
Laz: სერი (seri)
Lezgi: йиф (jif)
Ligurian: néutte f
Lingala: butú
Lithuanian: naktis (lt) f, šiaurė (lt)
Livonian: īe
Lombard: nott f
Lubuagan Kalinga: labi
Luxembourgish: Nuecht (lb) f, Nuet f
Macedonian: ноќ f (noḱ)
Magahi: 𑂩𑂰𑂞𑂱 (rāti)
Maguindanao: magabi
Maithili: राति (rāit)
Makasae: gamu
Makasar: bangi
Malagasy: alina (mg)
Malay: malam (ms), lailah
Malayalam: രാത്രി (ml) (rātri)
Maltese: lejl m
Manchu: ᡩᠣᠪᠣᡵᡳ (dobori)
Mansaka: gabi
Manx: oie f
Maore Comorian: uku class 11/6
Maori: pō (mi)
Maranao: gagawi'i
Marathi: रात्र (mr) (rātra)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: йӱд (jüd)
Western Mari: please add this translation if you can
Mazanderani: شو (šo)
Mbyá Guaraní: pytũ
Middle English: nyght
Middle French: nuyt
Middle Persian: LYLYA (šab)
Mingrelian: სერი (seri)
Mirandese: nuite f
Mòcheno: nòcht f
Moksha: ве (ve)
Mon: ဗ္တံ (hətɔm)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шөнө (mn) (šönö)
Mongolian: ᠰᠥᠨᠢ (söni)
Mpade: faɗe
Mwani: usiku
Nahuatl:
Classical: yohualli
Guerrero: yewajli
Highland Puebla: yohual
Mecayapan: yóhual
Northern Puebla: yohuali
Tetelcingo: yohuali̱
Tlamacazapa: yowali
Nanai: долбо (dolbo)
Nandi: kemboi
Nauruan: anubumin (na)
Navajo: tłʼééʼ
Neapolitan: notte f
Nepali: रात (rāt)
Ngazidja Comorian: masihu class 6
Nivkh: урк (urk)
Nogai: туьн (tün)
Norman: niet f (Jersey, Guernsey), nyit f (continental Normandy)
Northern Ohlone: múr
Northern Sami: idja
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: natt (no) f or m
Nynorsk: natt f
Occitan: nuèch (oc) f, nuèit (oc) f
Odia: ରାତି (or) (rāti)
Okinawan: 夜 (ゆる, yuru; ゆー, yū)
Okinoerabu: 夜 (いぃーる, yīru)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: нощь f (noštĭ)
Glagolitic: ⱀⱁⱋⱐ f (noštĭ)
Old East Slavic: ночь f (nočĭ)
Old English: niht f
Old French: nuit f, noit f
Old Javanese: wĕṅi
Old Norse: nátt f, njóla f
Old Occitan: noit
Old Persian: [script needed] (xšap)
Oromo: halkan
Ossetian: ӕхсӕв (æxsæv)
Ottoman Turkish: كیجه (gece)
Pali: ratti f, natta n, nisā f
Pannonian Rusyn: ноц f (noc)
Papiamentu: nochi
Pashto: شپه (ps) f (špa)
Pennsylvania German: Nacht f
Persian:
Dari: شَب (šab), شَو (šaw) (colloquial)
Iranian Persian: شَب (šab), شُو (šow) (colloquial)
Phake: please add this translation if you can
Phoenician: 𐤋𐤋 (ll)
Piedmontese: neuit f
Pijin: naet
Pipil: tayua
Pitjantjatjara: munga
Polabian: nüc f
Polish: noc (pl) f
Portuguese: noite (pt) f
Punjabi: ਰਾਤ (rāt)
Quechua: tuta (qu), pagas, ch'isi
Rendille: iben
Rohingya: rait
Romagnol: nòt f, nòta f
Romani: rat f
Romanian: noapte (ro) f
Romansch: notg f, not f
Russian: ночь (ru) f (nočʹ)
Saho: bar
Sami:
Inari: ijjâ
Kildin: ыйй (yjj)
Lule: idja
Northern: idja
Pite: ijja
Southern: jïjje
Ter: jɨjj
Ume: jïjja
Samoan: valuapo, po
Sanskrit: रात्रि (sa) (rātri), क्षप् (sa) f (kṣáp), नक्ति (sa) f (nakti)
Sardinian: noti f, notti f
Sarikoli: x̌eb m
Saterland Frisian: Noacht f
Scots: nicht
Scottish Gaelic: oidhche f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ноћ f
Roman: noć f
Shan: ၶိုၼ် (shn) (khǔen)
Shona: husiku
Shor: тӱн (tün), қара (qara)
Shughni: ах̌ӣб m (ax̌īb)
Sicilian: notti (scn)
Sidamo: hashsha
Sindhi: رات (sd) f (rāt)
Sinhalese: රැය (ræya)
Slovak: noc (sk) f
Slovene: noč (sl) f
Somali: habeen (so) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: noc f
Upper Sorbian: nóc f
Sotho: hosiu
South Efate: p̃og
Southern Altai: тӱн (tün)
Southern Kalinga: lafi
Spanish: noche (es) f, cheno m (Argentina), sorna (es) f
Sundanese: peuting (su), wengi (su)
Svan: ლე̄თ (lēt)
Swahili: usiku (sw)
Swedish: natt (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠞꠣꠁꠔ (rait)
Tabasaran: йишв (jiš°)
Tagalog: gabi (tl)
Tahitian: pō
Tajik: шаб (tg) (šab)
Talysh: şəv
Asalemi: شو (šav)
Tamil: இரவு (ta) (iravu)
Tat: şö
Tatar: төн (tt) (tön), төнгелек (tt) (töngelek)
Tausug: dūm
Telugu: రాత్రి (te) (rātri)
Ternate: futu
Tetum: kalan
Thai: กลางคืน (th) (glaang-kʉʉn), คืน (th) (kʉʉn), ราตรี (th) (raa-dtrii)
Tibetan: མཚན་མོ (mtshan mo), དགོང་མོ (dgong mo)
Tigrinya: ለይቲ (läyti)
Tocharian B: yṣīye
Tok Pisin: nait (tpi)
Tongan: poʻuli
Tsakhur: хамде (ꭓamdʲe)
Tumbuka: usiku
Turkish: gece (tr)
Turkmen: gije
Tuvan: дүн (dün)
Udi: шу (šu)
Udmurt: уй (uj)
Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎍 (ll)
Ukrainian: ніч (uk) f (nič)
Urdu: رات (ur) f (rāt), شَب (ur) f (śab)
Uyghur: تۈن (tün), كېچە (këche)
Uzbek: tun (uz), kecha (uz)
Venetan: note f
Veps: ö
Vietnamese: đêm (vi), tối (vi), ban đêm (vi), khuya (vi) (late night)
Vilamovian: nocht f, naocht f
Volapük: neit (vo)
Voro: üü
Votic: üü
Wakhi: naγd
Walloon: nute (wa) f, niût (wa) m or f
Warlpiri: munga
Welsh: nos (cy) f
West Frisian: nacht (fy) c
Western Bukidnon Manobo: dukilem
Western Panjabi: رات (pnb) f (rāt)
White Hmong: hmos
Winnebago: hąąhe
Wolof: guddi (wo)
Yagnobi: хишап (xišap)
Yakan: sangem
Yakut: түүн (tüün)
Yiddish: נאַכט (yi) f (nakht)
Yonaguni: 夜 (どぅる, duru)
Yoruba: òru
Yucatec Maya: áak'ab
Zazaki: şew
Zealandic: nacht m
Zhuang: hwnz, ngwnz
Zulu: ubusuku (zu) class 14 :
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#### See also

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

### Interjection

night
* Ellipsis of good night.
    Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!

#### Translations
### Verb

night (third-person singular simple present nights, present participle nighting, simple past and past participle nighted)
* To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
** 1885, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes, published 2008, page 284:So I took seat and ate somewhat of my vivers, my horse also feeding upon his fodder, and we nighted in that spot and next morning I set out[.]

### References

* “night”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Thing, thing

## Italian
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, borrowed from English night with the meaning of nightclub.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnajt/
* Rhymes: -ajt
* Hyphenation: night

### Noun

night m (invariable)
* nightclub
** 2014, Gianfranco Tomei, Sole nero, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, page 42:Al centro di un night affollatissimo, su una pista, due ballerine stupiscono i clienti con i movimenti d'una danza moderna.At the center of a crowded nightclub, on a dancefloor, two dancers amaze customers with the movements of a modern dance.

### References

* ↑ night in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Middle English
### Noun

night
* Alternative form of nyght

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English night.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˈnaɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnaj.t͡ʃi/ [ˈnaɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈnaj.te/ [ˈnaɪ̯.te]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈnaj.tɨ/

### Noun

night f (plural nights)
* (sometimes humorous) nightlife (nocturnal entertainment activities, especially parties and shows)
    Synonym: noite