solar eclipse

English

A total solar eclipse in 1999

A annular solar eclipse in 2023

A partial solar eclipse in 2022

Etymology

From solar +‎ eclipse. First use appears c. 1602 in the writings of Thomas Blundeville.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: sōl'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊlɚ ɪˈklɪps/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊlə ɪˈklɪps/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: so‧lar‧e‧clipse

Noun

solar eclipse (plural solar eclipses)

2. (astronomy) A phenomenon occurring when the Moon passes between the Earth and the sun.

   A solar eclipse is one of nature's most impressive sights.

   • 2017, Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, “Ancient Efforts to Understand”, in Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:

     The earliest reliable accounts of Chinese eclipses come from Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch’un-ch’iu), recording eclipses from 772 to 481 BCE, including a total solar eclipse in 709 BCE.

Translations

when the Moon passes between the Earth and the sun

• Afrikaans: sonsverduistering
• Arabic: كُسُوف اَلشَّمْس (ar) m (kusūf aš-šams)
• Armenian: արեգակի խավարում (aregaki xavarum)
• Azerbaijani: günəşin tutulması
• Basque: eguzki eklipse
• Belarusian: сонечнае зацьменне n (sónječnaje zacʹmjennje)
• Bengali: সূর্যগ্রহণ (bn) (śurjogrohon), কুসূফে আফতাব (kusūfe aftab)
• Bikol Central: pagkulop nin saldang
• Bulgarian: слънчево затъмнение n (slǎnčevo zatǎmnenie)
• Catalan: eclipsi solar m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 日食 (jat⁶ sik⁶), 天狗食日 (tin¹ gau² sik⁶ jat⁶)

  Mandarin: 日食 (zh) (rìshí), 日蝕 / 日蚀 (zh) (rìshí)

• Crimean Tatar: küneş tutuluvı
• Czech: zatmění slunce n
• Danish: solformørkelse (da) c
• Dutch: zonsverduistering (nl) f
• Esperanto: suna eklipso (eo)
• Estonian: väikesevarjutus
• Faroese: sólarmyrking f
• Finnish: auringonpimennys (fi)
• French: éclipse solaire (fr) f
• Galician: eclipse solar m
• Georgian: მზის დაბნელება (mzis dabneleba)
• German: Sonnenfinsternis (de) f
• Greek: έκλειψη ηλίου f (ékleipsi ilíou)
• Hebrew: ליקוי חמה (he) m (likúi khamá)
• Hindi: सूर्य ग्रहण m (sūrya grahaṇ)
• Hungarian: napfogyatkozás (hu)
• Icelandic: sólmyrkvi (is) m
• Indonesian: gerhana matahari (id) m
• Inuktitut: ᓯᕿᓃᖅᓯᖅᑐᖅ (siqiniiqsiqtoq)
• Italian: eclisse solare f, eclissi solare f
• Japanese: 日食 (ja) (にっしょく, nisshoku)
• Japhug: ʁmbɣɯzɯn
• Kazakh: күннің тұтылуы (künnıñ tūtyluy)
• Korean: 일식(日蝕) (ko) (ilsik), 일식(日食) (ko) (ilsik)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خۆرگیران (xorgîran)

• Latvian: saules aptumsums m
• Lithuanian: saulės užtemimas m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: zunsverduustering n (New Saxon Spelling: sünsverdüüstering n)

  German Low German: Sünnverdüüstern n, Sünnendüüsternis n (New Saxon Spelling: sünverdüüstering n, sündüüsternisse n)

• Malay: gerhana matahari (ms)
• Manchu: ᡧᡠᠨ
  ᠵᡝᠮᠪᡳ (šun jembi)
• Mongolian: нар хиртэлт (mn) (nar xirtelt)
• Navajo: ałneʼííʼáázh, jóhonaaʼéí daaztsą́
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: solformørkelse m

  Nynorsk: solformørking f, solmørking f

• Old English: sunnan āsprungennes f
• Persian: خورشیدگرفتگی, کسوف (fa)
• Polish: zaćmienie Słońca (pl) n
• Portuguese: eclipse solar (pt) m, solcris m
• Romanian: eclipsă solară f, eclipsă de Soare f
• Russian: со́лнечное затме́ние (ru) n (sólnečnoje zatménije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: помрчниа Сунца f (Croatia), помрачење Сунца f (Bosnia, Serbia)

  Roman: pomrčina Sunca f (Croatia), pomačenje Sunca f (Bosnia, Serbia)

• Slovak: zatmenie Slnka n
• Slovene: sončev mrk (sl) m
• Spanish: eclipse solar (es) m
• Swahili: kupatwa kwa jua
• Swedish: solförmörkelse (sv) c
• Telugu: సూర్య గ్రహణము (te) (sūrya grahaṇamu)
• Thai: สุริยคราส (sù-rí-yá-krâat)
• Turkish: Güneş tutulması (tr)
• Ukrainian: Сонячне затемнення f (Sonjačne zatemnennja)
• Vietnamese: nhật thực (vi) (日食)
• Volapük: solagrahan (vo)
• West Frisian: sinnefertsjustering
• Yakut: күн өлүүтэ (kün ölüüte)
• Yucatec Maya: chiʼibal kʼiin

See also

• 🝵 (symbol)
• lunar eclipse