A total solar eclipse in 1999
From solar + eclipse. First use appears c. 1602 in the writings of Thomas Blundeville.
solar eclipse (plural solar eclipses)
- (astronomy) A phenomenon occurring when the Moon passes between the Earth and the sun.
The mother warned her daughter not to look at the sun during the solar eclipse as it could do irreparable damage to her eyes.
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: सूर्यग्रहण (hi) (sūryagrahaṇ)
- 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
- Malay: gerhana matahari (ms)
- 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 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)
- West Frisian: sinnefertsjustering
- Yakut: күн өлүүтэ (kün ölüüte)
- Yucatec Maya: chiʼibal kʼiin
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