headlamp

English

Etymology

From head ‎ lamp.

Noun

headlamp (plural headlamps)

1. An individual headlight, particularly of a motor vehicle.
   • 1940, Ralph A. Richardson, Optics and Wheels, General Motors Corporation, p. 13

     The automobile headlamp uses either a parabolic reflector or a slight modification of it to obtain a concentrated light beam.

   • 1942 February, “Notes and News: An Historic American Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:

     With its long tapered cowcatcher, massive headlamp and enormous diamond smokestack behind, wagon-top boiler, high running-plate above the driving-wheels reached from a front door in the square side-window cab, cylinders with slide valves mounted on top, and double bogie tender, General in its present form is typical of much earlier American locomotive practice.

2. A flashlight worn on the head.

Translations

headlight

• Arabic: ضَوْءٌ أَمَامِيّ m (ḍawʔun ʔamāmiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 前燈／前灯 (zh) (qiándēng)

• Czech: světlomet (cs) m
• Finnish: ajovalaisin
• French: phare (fr) f
• German: Scheinwerfer (de) m
• Hungarian: fényszóró (hu)
• Irish: ceannlampa m
• Italian: fanale (it) m
• Japanese: 前照灯 (ja) (ぜんしょうとう, zenshōdō), ヘッドライト (ja) (heddoraito)
• Korean: 전조등(前照燈) (ko) (jeonjodeung)
• Norman: veue f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hovedlykt m or f

• Portuguese: farol (pt)
• Russian: фа́ра (ru) f (fára)
• Scottish Gaelic: prìomh-sholas m
• Swedish: framlykta c
• Ukrainian: фа́ра f (fára)
• Vietnamese: đèn pha (vi)
• Welsh: golau blaen m, priflamp f

flashlight worn on head

• Czech: čelovka (cs) f
• Finnish: otsalamppu (fi)
• German: Stirnlampe (de) f
• Swedish: pannlampa (sv) c
• Welsh: golau pen m