abat-jour

See also: abatjour

English

Etymology

French abattre jour any contrivance or apparatus to admit light, or to throw it in a desired direction, as a lamp-shade

Noun

abat-jour (plural abat-jours)

A skylight, or any beveled aperture made in the wall of an apartment or in a roof, for the better admission of light from above.
A sloping, box-like structure, flaring upward and open at the top, attached to a window on the outside, to prevent those within from seeing objects below, or for the purpose of directing light downward into the window.

References

1889 Century Dictionary, volume 1 page 6

French

Etymology

From abat (“breaks down”) +‎ jour (“light”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.ba.ʒuʁ/

Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

Descendants

→ Albanian: abazhur
→ Arabic: أَبَاجُور‎ (ʾabāžūr)
→ Bulgarian: абажур (abažur)
→ Crimean Tatar: abajur
→ Czech: abažúr
→ English: abatjour
→ Estonian: abažuur
→ Georgian: აბაჟური (abažuri)
→ Greek: αμπαζούρ (ampazoúr)
→ Italian: abat-jour
→ Latvian: abažūrs
→ Lithuanian: abažūras
→ Persian: آباژور‎ (âbâžur)
→ Polish: abażur
→ Portuguese: abajur
→ Romanian: abajur
→ Russian: абажу́р (abažúr)
- → Azerbaijani: abajur
- → Bashkir: абажур (abažur)
- → Belarusian: абажу́р (abažúr)
- → Chuvash: абажур (abažur)
- → Kazakh: абажур (abajwr)
- → Ossetian: абажур (abažur)
- → Tatar: абажур (abajur)
- → Tajik: абажур (abažur)
- → Ukrainian: абажу́р (abažúr)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: абажур

Latin: abažur
→ Turkish: abajur

Further reading

“abat-jour” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

(Jersey) blind

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