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κανδήλη

From LSJ

τὰν ἐπὶ τᾶς → Either with this or on this | Come back victorious or dead

Plutarch, Moralia, 241
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Full diacritics: κανδήλη Medium diacritics: κανδήλη Low diacritics: κανδήλη Capitals: ΚΑΝΔΗΛΗ
Transliteration A: kandḗlē Transliteration B: kandēlē Transliteration C: kandili Beta Code: kandh/lh

English (LSJ)

ἡ, Lat. candela, candle, torch, Ath.15.701b:—hence κανδηλοσβέστης, ου, ὁ, fem. κανδηλοσβέστρια, ἡ, moth, Sch.Nic.Th.763, Sch.Opp.H.1.404.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

κανδήλη: ἡ, Λατ. candela, λαμπάς, Ἀθήν. 701Β. 2) κρεμαστὸς λαμπτήρ, Ἐπιφάν. ΙΙ. 196Β, Ἰωάνν. Μόσχ. 3056C, Λεοντ. Κύπρ. 1708D·-κανδηλάπτης,ου,ὁ καὶ πιθαν. κανδήλαυρος, ὁ, ὁ ἀνάπτων τοὺς λαμπτῆρας, κανδηλάπτης ὡς καὶ νῦν, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 9528· - κανδηλάβρα Βασιλικ. 44. 13, 3, 44. 15, 19, 1, καὶ κανδήλαβρον Βασιλικ. 15. 4, 6, = τῷ Λατιν. candelabrum.

Translations

torch

Aklanon: sueo'; Albanian: pishtar; Arabic: مَشْعَل, شُعْلَة; Aragonese: tieda; Armenian: ջահ; Asturian: antorcha; Azerbaijani: məşəl; Basque: lastargi, zuzi; Belarusian: паходня, факел; Bengali: মশাল; Bulgarian: факел, факла; Burmese: မီးတိုင်, မီးအိမ်, မီးတုတ်; Catalan: teia, torxa; Cebuano: sulo; Chinese Cantonese: 火把, 火炬; Hokkien: 火炬; Mandarin: 薪火, 火炬; Czech: pochodeň; Danish: fakkel; Dutch: toorts, fakkel; Esperanto: torĉo; Estonian: tõrvik; Etruscan: 𐌚𐌀𐌂𐌄 class inanimate; Fijian: cina; Finnish: soihtu; French: torche, flambeau; Galician: facha; Georgian: ჩირაღდანი, მაშხალა; German: Fackel; Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐌼𐌰, 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍃; Greek: δαυλός, πυρσός; Ancient Greek: αἴγλη, Βάκχος, γραβδίς, γράβιον, δαβελός, δᾳδίον, δαελός, δαΐς, δαλός, δάος, δᾷς, δαυλός, δέλετρον, δετή, δέτις, ἐλάνη, ἑλένη, κανδήλη, κηρίων, λαμπάς, λάμπη, λαμπτήρ, λοφνία, λοφνίδιον, λοφνίς, πανός, πεύκη, πυρσός, φανή, φανίον, φανός; Hebrew: אֲבוּקָה; Hindi: मशाल, टॉर्च; Hungarian: fáklya; Icelandic: kyndill; Ido: torcho; Indonesian: obor; Interlingua: torcha; Irish: tóirse, trilseán, lóchrann, breo, beo; Italian: fiaccola, torcia; Japanese: 松明, トーチ; Kazakh: алау, факел; Khmer: ចន្លុះ; Korean: 횃불; Kurdish Central Kurdish: چۆڵەچِرا, شاپِڵیتە, مەشخەڵ; Northern Kurdish: meşale; Kyrgyz: факел, шамана; Lao: ທວນ, ທວນໄຟ, ກະບອງ; Latin: fax, taeda, facula; Latvian: lāpa; Lithuanian: deglas; Luxembourgish: Fakel; Macedonian: факел, факла; Malay: jamung, obor; Maori: kāpara, ngāpara, tōroherohe; Minangkabau: suluah; Mongolian Cyrillic: бамбар; Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠮᠪᠠᠷ; Norwegian Bokmål: fakkel; Nynorsk: fakkel; Old East Slavic: свѣтꙑчь; Old English: blase, speld; Pashto: مشعل; Persian: مَشْعَل, روشنک sg, هموخ sg; Plautdietsch: Fachel, Fiastock; Polish: pochodnia, żagiew, łuczywo; Portuguese: tocha; Romanian: torță, făclie, fachie; Russian: факел, светоч; Scottish Gaelic: lòchran, toirds; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: ба̏кља, бу̀ктиња; Roman: bȁklja, bùktinja; Slovak: fakľa; Slovene: bakla; Spanish: antorcha; Swahili: mwenge; Swedish: bloss, fackla; Tagalog: sulô; Tajik: машъал, машъала, сироҷ; Tarifit: asfeḍ; Tatar: факел; Thai: คบ, ไต้; Turkish: meşale; Turkmen: fakel; Ukrainian: смолоскип, факел; Urdu: مَشْعَل, ٹارْچ; Uyghur: مەشئەل; Uzbek: mashʼal, mashʼala, fakel; Vietnamese: đuốc, ngọn đuốc; Welsh: ffagl, tors, pentewyn; Yiddish: שטורקאַץ