Noun: lamp
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Zet je de lamp aan? (Can you turn on the lamp?)
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De lamp in de woonkamer is kapot. (The lamp in the living room is broken.)
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Ze heeft een nieuwe lamp voor haar bureau gekocht. (She bought a new lamp for her desk.)
Nouns inflected like lamp
motiveering,
Duitse herdershond,
urilift,
vervolmaking,
elektrische spanning,
ovenfriet,
winteravond,
weervrouw,
besteding,
bloemenveiling,
vertakking,
tintinofiel,
synaps,
olieraffinaderij,
vliegtuigkaping,
sawaslang,
verzetting,
afrondfout,
druivenoogst,
wintermaand, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”). See: Latin Nouns '
lampas', Ancient Greek Nouns '
λαμπάς'.
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