English

Image:Sunset may 2006 panorama.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A sunset (changes in color of the sky).

Etymology

In Gower's Confessio Amantis, before 1393.XHTML::MediaWiki::Parser=HASH(0x89228cc)Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988XHTML::MediaWiki::Parser=HASH(0x89228cc) Compound of sun + set.

Pronunciation

• An audio transcript can be found at en-us-sunset.ogg

Noun

1. The time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
2. The changes in color of the sky at sunset.
3. The final period of the life or a person or thing.
4. (attributively) Of or relating to the final period of the life of a person or thing.
5. : one's sunset years

Synonyms

• dusk, sundown (US), nightfall, twilight
• end, final act, swansong
• last, terminal, twilight

Antonyms

• sunrise

Translations

• Arabic:
• Czech: {{t-|cs|západ|m}}
• Dutch: {{t+|nl|zonsondergang|m}}
• Finnish:
• French: {{t+|fr|coucher de soleil|m}}
• German: {{t+|de|Sonnenuntergang|m}}
• Greek: δύση (dísi)
• Hungarian: ,
• Icelandic: {{t+|is|sólsetur|n}}, {{t+|is|sólarlag|n}}
• Italian: {{t+|it|tramonto|m}}
• Japanese: 日没 (にちぼつ, nichibotsu)

• Korean: 해넘이 (haeneomI), 황혼 (黃昏, hwanghon)
• Latvian: saulriets
• Norwegian: solnedgang
• Portuguese: {{t+|pt|crepúsculo|m}}, {{t+|pt|pôr-do-sol|m}}
• Russian: заход солнца (zaxód sólnca) , закат (zakát) , (вечерний|вечерняя) заря ((večérnjaja) zarjá)
• Serbian: zalazak sunca
• Spanish: {{t-|es|puesta del sol|f}}
• Swedish: {{t+|sv|solnedgång|c}}
• Welsh: machlud haul

• Arabic:
• Dutch: {{t+|nl|zonsondergang|m}}
• Finnish:
• French: {{t+|fr|crépuscule|m}}
• German: {{t+|de|Sonnenuntergang|m}}
• Hungarian:
• Icelandic: {{t+|is|sólsetur|n}}, {{t+|is|sólarlag|n}}
• Italian: {{t+|it|tramonto|m}}

• Japanese: 夕焼け (ゆうやけ, yūyake)
• Korean: 저녁놀 (jeonyeog-nol), 황혼 (黃昏, hwanghon)
• Kurdish:
• Russian: заход солнца (zaxód sólnca) , закат (zakát) , (вечерний|вечерняя) заря ((večérnjaja) zarjá)
• Serbian: zalaz, zalazak sunca, zalaznica
• Swedish: solnedgång
• Welsh: machlud haul

• Finnish: ,
• French: {{t+|fr|crépuscule|m}}
• Greek: δύση (dísi)
• Hungarian:
• Icelandic: {{t+|is|sólsetur|n}}
• Italian: {{t+|it|tramonto|m}}

• Japanese: {{t+|ja|たそがれ|tr=tasogare|sc=Jpan}}
• Korean: 황혼 (黃昏, hwanghon)
• Portuguese: crepúsculo
• Russian: закат (zakát)
• Welsh: machlud haul

• Finnish: {{t-|fi|iltarusko|alt=iltaruskon}}

• Hungarian:

• : perëndimi i diellit
• : 日落 (rìluò)
• : saulėlydis (1, 3); žara (2)
• : sunnansetlgang
• : zachód słońca (1), zmierzch (2,3)
• : apus
• : సూర్యాస్తమయం (sooryaastamayaM)
• : machlud

See also

• moonset

References

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