English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
half- + moon
half-moon (plural half-moons)
- The moon in its first or last quarter when only half the visible face is illuminated; a quarter moon.
- Anything shaped like a crescent, especially the base of a fingernail.
- A semicircular or crescent-shaped Filipino butter cookie.
- Synonym of black and white (“type of cookie”)
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Translations[edit]
the moon in its first or last quarter
- Arabic: تَرْبِيع m (tarbīʕ)
- Belarusian: паўме́сяц m (paŭmjésjac)
- Bulgarian: полуме́сец m (polumésec)
- Burmese: လခြမ်း (my) (la.hkram:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 半月 (zh) (bànyuè)
- Czech: půlměsíc (cs) m
- Danish: halvmåne c
- Dutch: halvemaan (nl) f
- Esperanto: krescento, duonluno
- Estonian: poolkuu
- Finnish: puolikuu (fi)
- French: demi-lune (fr) f
- German: Halbmond (de) m
- Hungarian: félhold (hu)
- Irish: leath gealaí, leathghealach f
- Italian: mezzaluna (it) f
- Japanese: 半月 (ja) (はんげつ, hangetsu)
- Karok: kusráh'aachip
- Korean: 반달 (ko) (bandal)
- Latin: luna dimidiata f
- Macedonian: полумесец m (polumesec)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: halvmåne m
- Nynorsk: halvmåne m
- Persian: چارک (fa) (čârak), نیمماه (nimmâh), نیمپری (nimporri), نیمبرید (nimborid)
- Plautdietsch: Haulfmon f
- Polish: półksiężyc (pl) m
- Portuguese: meia-lua (pt) f
- Romanian: semilună (ro) f
- Russian: полуме́сяц (ru) m (polumésjac)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏лумесе̄ц m, по̏лумјесе̄ц m
- Roman: pȍlumesēc m, pȍlumjesēc (sh) m
- Slovak: polmesiac m
- Slovene: polmesec m
- Spanish: medialuna (es) f
- Swahili: nusu mwezi
- Swedish: halvmåne (sv) c
- Tagalog: kalahatian-ng-buwan, medya luna
- Telugu: చంద్రవంక (te) (candravaṅka)
- Turkish: yarım ay (tr), hilâl (tr)
- Ukrainian: півмі́сяць m (pivmísjacʹ)
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anything shaped like a crescent
