lamp

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, borrowed from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Replaced Middle English leohtfet, lihtfat (“lamp, sconce, candlestick”), from Old English lēohtfæt (“lamp, lantern, torch, light”, literally “light-vat, light-vessel”).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /læmp/

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• Rhymes: -æmp

lamp (plural lamps)

1. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
2. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
3. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

• See also Thesaurus:light source

• Davy lamp
• lamp post, lamppost
• table lamp

lamp (third-person singular simple present lamps, present participle lamping, simple past and past participle lamped)

1. (slang) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
2. To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping.
3. (slang) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

• lamp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• MPLA, Palm, palm

From Middle High German lamp, from Old High German lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz. Cognate with German Lamm, Dutch lam, English lamb, Icelandic lamb.

lamp n (plural lémper, diminutive lèmple)

1. (Sette Comuni) lamb

• “lamp” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”).

• IPA^(key): /lɑmp/

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• Hyphenation: lamp
• Rhymes: -ɑmp

lamp f (plural lampen, diminutive lampje n)

1. lamp
2. (electronics, informal) vacuum tube, thermionic valve

   Synonyms: radiolamp, buis, elektronenbuis, radiobuis

• palm

From Middle Low German lampe or German Lampe.

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi)

1. lamp

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi)

1. (colloquial) random

   See on mingi lamp vend.

   He's some random dude.

Onomatopoeic. Compare lame (“flat”), lamama (“to lay down”).

lamp (genitive lambi, partitive lampi)

1. flat (as in flat-footed)

   Joosepil on lampis jalad.

   Joosep has flat feet.

Mostly used in the context of flat feet.

lamp

1. Alternative form of laumpe

• IPA^(key): /lɑmp/

lamp

1. first-person singular present of limpan
2. third-person singular present of limpan

lamp

1. genitive plural of lampa

lamp (third-person singular present lamps, present participle lampin, past lampt, past participle lampt)

1. (intransitive) To run wild; to scamper.
2. (intransitive) To go jauntily.

lamp

1. lamp

• avtolamp
• jauglamp
• lagilamp
• seinlamp
• lampankatuz

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “лампа, светильник”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

IE *leuk- ‘light, brightness’,

lamp f (plural lampau)

1. lamp

• llusern