English
Etymology
From Middle English ful mone, from Old English full mōna, equivalent to full + moon.
Pronunciation
Noun
full moon (countable and uncountable, plural full moons)
- The phase of the moon when it is in opposition to the sun and its full disc is therefore visible.
- Antonym: new moon
- Hyponym: strawberry moon
1923 May, Lawrence Shaw Mayo, “The Shenando’ Valley”, in The Atlantic[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2022:It is true also that the roosters, especially during full moon, crow all night.
- The moon when it is in opposition to the sun.
- Synonym: (poetic) plenilune
- Antonym: new moon
Translations
phase of moon when in opposition to sun
- Afrikaans: volmaan (af)
- Arabic: بَدْر (ar) m (badr)
- Egyptian Arabic: بدر m (badr)
- Gulf Arabic: بدر m (badir)
- Armenian: լիալուսին (hy) (lialusin)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܸܣܐܵܐ m (kisˀā), ܒܲܕܪܝܼ m (badrī), ܣܲܗܪܵܐ ܡܸܠܝܵܐ m (sahrā milyā)
- Basque: ilargibete
- Bengali: পূর্ণিমা রাত (purnima rat), শবে বদর (śobe bodor)
- Berber:
- Tashelhit: tamayyurt f
- Burmese: လပြည့် (my) (la.prany.), ပုဏ္ဏမာ (my) (punna.ma)
- Catalan: lluna plena (ca) f, pleniluni m
- Cebuano: daktol
- Chamorro: gualåfon
- Chickasaw: hashi'at aloota, hashi'at lhibokta
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 滿月 / 满月 (zh) (mǎnyuè), 望月 (zh) (wàngyuè)
- Czech: úplněk (cs) m
- Danish: fuldmåne (da) c
- Dutch: volle maan m
- Esperanto: plenluno
- Estonian: täiskuu
- Finnish: täysikuu (fi)
- French: pleine lune (fr) f
- Galician: lúa chea (gl) f
- Georgian: სავსემთვარეობა (savsemtvareoba), ბადრი (badri)
- German: Vollmond (de) m
- Greek: πανσέληνος (el) f (pansélinos)
- Ancient: πανσέληνος f (pansélēnos)
- Haitian Creole: plèn lin
- Hebrew: ירח מלא (yaréakh malé)
- Hindi: बद्र (hi) m (badra), पूर्णँचन्द्र (hi) m (pūrṇãcandra), पूर्णिमा (hi) f (pūrṇimā), पूर्णमासी (hi) f (pūrṇamāsī)
- Hungarian: holdtölte (hu), telihold (hu)
- Icelandic: fullt tungl (is) n
- Ilocano: kabus
- Indonesian: bulan purnama (id), badar (id)
- Irish: lánré f, iomlán gealaí m
- Italian: luna piena f, plenilunio (it) m, opposizione (it) f
- Japanese: 満月 (ja) (まんげつ, mangetsu), 望月 (ja) (もちづき, mochizuki) (poetically)
- Kankanaey: tekeng
- Korean: 보름달 (ko) (boreumdal), 만월(滿月) (ko) (manwol), 망월(望月) (mang'wol)
- Lakota: wímimá
- Latgalian: pylnats m
- Latin: plēnilūnium n
- Latvian: pilnmēness m, pilnacis m
- Lithuanian: pi̇̀lnatis (lt) f
- Low German:
- German Low German: vullmaand m
- Malay: purnama
- Maltese: qamar kwinta
- Maori: rākaunui, marama hua
- Mokilese: pwuhl mwuhn
- Nahuatl: oyuahualiuhmetztli
- Navajo: hanííbą́ą́z
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fullmåne m
- Nynorsk: fullmåne m
- Old English: full mōna
- Palauan: orakiruu
- Papiamentu: luna yen
- Persian: بدر (fa) (badr), پرماه (fa) (pormâh)
- Pirahã: kahai’aíi ’ogiíso
- Plautdietsch: Vollmon f
- Polish: pełnia (pl) f
- Portuguese: lua cheia (pt) f, plenilúnio (pt) m
- Quechua: killapura
- Romanian: lună plină (ro) f
- Russian: полнолу́ние (ru) n (polnolúnije), по́лная луна́ f (pólnaja luná)
- Santali: ᱚᱛ ᱠᱩᱱᱟᱹᱢᱤ (ôt kunămi)
- Serbo-Croatian: puni mjesec
- Slovak: spln m
- Slovene: polna luna f, ščip m
- Sicilian: luna china f, plenilùniu m
- Spanish: plenilunio (es) m, luna llena (es) f
- Swahili: mwezi mpevu (sw)
- Swedish: fullmåne (sv) c
- Tagalog: kabilugan ng buwan
- Thai: จันทร์เพ็ญ (jan-pen)
- Tocharian B: pälleᵤ
- Turkish: dolunay (tr), bedir (tr)
- Urdu: بدر (ur)
- Vietnamese: trăng tròn, trăng rằm
- Volapük: fulamun (vo)
- Welsh: lleuad lawn (cy)
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the moon when in opposition to sun
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