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Webster 1913 Edition

Candlestick

Can′dle-stickˊ

,

Noun.

[AS.

candel-sticca

;

candel

candle +

sticca

stick.]

An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.

Definition 2024

candlestick

candlestick

English

Alternative forms

canstick (obsolete)

Noun

candlestick ‎(plural candlesticks)

a holder with a socket or spike for a candle.

Translations

a holder with a socket or spike for a candle

Albanian: shandan (sq)
Arabic: شَمْعَدَان m ‎(šamʿadān), قِنْدِيل m ‎(qindīl)
Armenian: աշտանակ (hy) ‎(aštanak), մոմակալ (hy) ‎(momakal)
Bulgarian: све́щник m ‎(svéštnik), светилник (bg) m ‎(svetilnik)
Catalan: candeler m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 燭臺 (zh) or 燭台 (zh), 烛台 (zh) ‎(zhútái)
Czech: svícen (cs) m
Erzya: тандал ‎(tandal)
Esperanto: kandelingo
Finnish: kynttilänjalka (fi)
French: chandelier (fr) m
German: Kerzenhalter m
Hebrew: פמוט (he) ‎(pamot')
Hindi: दीपाधार (hi) m ‎(dīpādhār), शमादान (hi) m ‎(śamādān), चिराग़दान m ‎(cirāġdān)
Hungarian: gyertyatartó (hu)
Icelandic: kertastjaki (is) m
Ido: kandeliero (io)
Indonesian: kandil (id)
Italian: candelabro (it) m
Japanese: 燭台 ‎(しょくだい, shokudai)
Norman: changlyi m

Kazakh: шамдал (kk) ‎(şamdal)
Korean: 촛대 (ko) ‎(chotdae) (燭臺 (ko))
Latin: candelabrum
Luxembourgish: Käerzestänner m
Macedonian: свеќник m ‎(sveḱnik)
Persian: شمعدان (fa) ‎(šam’adân)
Polish: świecznik (pl) m, lichtarz (pl) m
Portuguese: castiçal (pt) m
Romanian: sfeșnic (ro)
Russian: канделя́бр (ru) m ‎(kandeljábr), подсве́чник (ru) m ‎(podsvéčnik)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: свећњак m / свијећњак m, чирак m

Roman: svećnjak (sh) m / svijećnjak (sh) m, čirak (sh) m
Spanish: candelero m, candelabro m
Swedish: ljusstake (sv)
Tagalog: sasangan
Turkish: şamdan (tr), mumluk (tr)
Urdu: شمعدان m ‎(šam'adān), چراغدان m ‎(cirāġdān)
Vietnamese: chúc đài (燭臺)
Volapük: kandelikipian (vo)

See also