crescent moon - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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A crescent moon
crescent moon (plural crescent moons)
- The Moon as it appears early in its first quarter or late in its last quarter, when only a small arc-shaped section of the visible portion is illuminated by the Sun.
- hilal, meniscus, moonsickle, sickle moon
- gibbous moon
- lunar phase
- (image or other representation of a crescent moon): lunette (obsolete)
- (waning moon): old moon
- (waxing moon): new moon, young moon
- new moon, half moon, full moon
the moon as it appears in its first or last quarter
- Afrikaans: sekelmaan
- Arabic: هِلَال m (hilāl)
Egyptian Arabic: هلال m (hilāl) - Burmese: လခြမ်း (my) (la.hkram:)
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 新月 (zh) (xīnyuè) - Danish: halvmåne c
- Dutch: wassenaar (nl) m
- Esperanto: lunarko
- Finnish: kuunsirppi (fi)
- French: croissant de lune m
- Galician: lúa crecente (gl) f
- German: Mondsichel (de) f
- Greek: μισοφέγγαρο (el) n (misoféngaro)
- Haitian Creole: lalin kwasan
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Icelandic: skarður máni
- Indonesian: bulan sabit (id)
- Irish: corrán gealaí m
- Italian: luna crescente, fase di novilunio f, congiunzione (it) f
- Japanese: 弦月 (gengetsu), 三日月 (ja) (mikazuki)
- Koasati: niłahasí hahpá
- Korean: 초승(初生) (choseung), 초승(初生)달 (choseungdal), 각월(却月) (gagwol), 미월(眉月) (miwol)
- Lakota: wílečhala
- Latin: luna corniculata f
- Middle English: bente mone
- Norwegian: månesigd m, halvmåne m
- Papiamentu: luna kresiente
- Persian: هلال افزاینده (helâl-e afzâyande)
- Polish: pierwsza kwadra f
- Portuguese: lua crescente
- Spanish: luna creciente
- Sumerian: 𒌓𒊬 (usakar)
- Swedish: månskära (sv)
- Tagalog: bulang gasuklay
- Turkish: hilal (tr), ayça (tr)
- Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎍𐎍 (hll)