daybreak

See also: Daybreak and day-break

English

daybreak over the Arbizon

Etymology

From day +‎ break.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪbɹeɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

daybreak (countable and uncountable, plural daybreaks)

1. Dawn.
   • 1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:

     Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.

Usage notes

The time of daybreak varies throughout the year, except near the equator.

Synonyms

• break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, sunrise; see also Thesaurus:dawn

Antonyms

• dusk, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk

Translations

dawn

• Arabic: فَجْر m (fajr), صُبْح (ar) m (ṣubḥ)
• Armenian: լուսաբաց (hy) (lusabacʻ), այգաբաց (hy) (aygabacʻ), արեւածագ (hy) (arewacag)
• Aromanian: hãryii f, apiritã f, cripatã f
• Bikol Central: alagaag, umagahon
• Bulgarian: зазоряване n (zazorjavane)
• Burmese: အရုဏ်တက် (a.runtak)
• Catalan: alba (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黎明 (zh) (límíng), 拂曉 / 拂晓 (zh) (fúxiǎo), 破曉 / 破晓 (zh) (pòxiǎo), 晨 (zh) (chén)

• Czech: úsvit (cs) m, svítání (cs) n
• Danish: daggry (da) n
• Dutch: dageraad (nl) m
• Esperanto: tagiĝo (eo)
• Finnish: aamunkoitto (fi)
• French: point du jour (fr) m
• Galician: amencer (gl), abrente (gl) m, alborada (gl) f
• Georgian: განთიადი (ka) (gantiadi), ცისკარი (cisḳari), გარიჟრაჟი (garižraži), რიჟრაჟი (rižraži), ალიონი (alioni), აისი (aisi)
• German: Tagesanbruch (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍅𐍉 f (uhtwō), 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 m (urruns)
• Greek: αυγή (el) f (avgí)

  Ancient: ὄρθρος m (órthros), ἠώς f (ēṓs)

• Hungarian: virradat (hu), hajnal (hu)
• Irish: briseadh an lae m, amhscarthanach f, camhaoir f
• Italian: alba (it) f
• Japanese: 夜明け (ja) (よあけ, yoake), 黎明 (ja) (れいめい, reimei)
• Latin: aurora (la) m, dīlūculum n, gallicinium n
• Lithuanian: aušra (lt) f
• Macedonian: зо́ра f (zóra)
• Maori: ata pongipongi, aoatea, ata hāpara, hāpara, haeata, puata, maruata, ata pūao
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grytidlig (at daybreak, at the crack of dawn)

• Old English: dagung f
• Ottoman Turkish: طاك (tañ)
• Persian: سحر (fa) (sahar)
• Polish: świt (pl) m, brzask (pl) m
• Portuguese: amanhecer (pt) m, raiar do sol m, nascer do sol m, aurora (pt) f
• Romanian: răsărit de soare (ro) n, zori (ro), auroră (ro) f, albă f
• Russian: рассве́т (ru) m (rassvét), заря́ (ru) f (zarjá)
• Sanskrit: उषस् (sa) f (uṣas), उषा (sa) f (uṣā), ऊषा (sa) f (ūṣā), प्रभात (sa) n (prabhāta)
• Scottish Gaelic: briseadh-latha m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: праскозорје n

  Roman: praskozorje (sh) n

• Spanish: amanecer (es) m
• Swedish: gryning (sv), dagning (sv), dagbräckning (sv)
• Tagalog: bukang-liwayway (tl)
• Volapük: gödalulit, delaprim (vo)
• Welsh: gwawr (cy) f
• Yiddish: פֿאַרטאָג (yi) m (fartog)

Further reading

• daybreak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Baker day