English
Pronunciation
Noun
winter solstice (usually uncountable, plural winter solstices)
- (astronomy) The moment when the Earth is in that point of its orbit where the northern or southern hemisphere is most inclined away from the sun.
- Synonym: winter sunstead
Coordinate terms
Translations
the moment when the hemisphere is most inclined away from the sun
- Altai:
- Southern Altai: кышкы кӱн туруш (kïškï kün turuš)
- Bulgarian: зимно слънцестоене n (zimno slǎncestoene)
- Burmese: ဆောင်းယဉ်စွန်းချိန် (my) (hcaung:yanycwan:hkyin)
- Catalan: solstici d'hivern m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 冬至 (dung1 zi3), 冬節 / 冬节 (dung1 zit3)
- Hakka: 冬至 (tûng-chṳ), 冬節 / 冬节 (tûng-chiet)
- Hokkien: 冬至 (zh-min-nan) (tang-chì), 冬節 / 冬节 (tang-cheh, tang-choeh)
- Mandarin: 冬至 (zh) (dōngzhì), 冬節 / 冬节 (zh) (dōngjié), 南至 (zh) (nánzhì)
- Czech: zimní slunovrat m
- Danish: vintersolhverv (da) n
- Estonian: talvine pööripäev
- Finnish: talvipäivänseisaus (fi)
- French: solstice d'hiver (fr) m
- Galician: solsticio de inverno (gl) m
- Georgian: ზამთრის ნაბუნიობა (zamtris nabunioba), ზამთრის მზებუდობა (zamtris mzebudoba), ზამთრის მზისდგომა (zamtris mzisdgoma)
- German: Wintersonnenwende (de) f
- Greek: χειμερινό ηλιοστάσιο n (cheimerinó iliostásio)
- Hungarian: téli napforduló
- Icelandic: vetrarsólstöður f pl, vetrarsólhvörf n pl
- Irish: grianstad an gheimhridh m
- Italian: solstizio d'inverno m
- Japanese: 冬至 (ja) (とうじ, tōji)
- Kazakh: қысқы күн тоқырауы (qysqy kün toqyrauy)
- Korean: 동지(冬至) (ko) (dongji)
- Latin: brūma f
- Māori: te Ihu o Hinetakurua
- Navajo: haigo shá niighááh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vintersolverv n
- Nynorsk: vintersolkverv m
- Persian: انقلاب زمستانی (fa)
- Polish: przesilenie zimowe (pl) n
- Portuguese: solstício de inverno m
- Romanian: solstițiu de iarnă n
- Russian: зи́мнее солнцестоя́ние (ru) n (zímneje solncestojánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: grian-stad geamhraidh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: краткодневница f, краткодневица f
- Latin: kratkodnevnica f, kratkodnevica (sh) f
- Sinhalese: ශිශිර සූර්ය නිවෘත්තිය (śiśira sūrya niwr̥ttiya)
- Spanish: solsticio de invierno m, solsticio hiemal m, solsticio invernal m, solsticio invernizo m
- Swedish: vintersolstånd (sv) n
- Thai: เหมายัน (th) (hemayan)
- Ukrainian: зимо́ве́ сонцестоя́ння n (zymóvé soncestojánnja)
- Vietnamese: đông chí (vi) (冬至)
- Welsh: byrddydd gaeaf m
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