sunrise

English

a sunrise

Etymology

From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun +‎ rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnɹaɪz/
Audio (Canada): (file)
Rhymes: -ʌnɹaɪz

Noun

sunrise (countable and uncountable, plural sunrises)

The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
Synonyms: sunup, (slang) sparrow-fart; see also Thesaurus:dawn

Antonyms: sunset, sundown; see also Thesaurus:dusk

Coordinate term: moonrise

I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise.
The change in color of the sky at dawn.
Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?
(figuratively) Any great awakening.
It was the sunrise of her spirit.
- 1915, Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Storied Italy‎^[1]:
  Her face shone for a moment with new and unearthly splendour, her eyes lighted up with a very sunrise of joy.
- 1898, F. R. Chandler, The Story of Lake Geneva, Or, Summer Homes for City People‎^[2]:
  It is in its zenith at mid-June, a very sunrise of Nature; and what with its forest and flower- fringed shores, its palace homes and parks, each with its white-winged or canopied yacht for skimming the lake at will, it at once occurred to me that Paradise had already been discovered and appropriated by Lake Geneva loiterers.

Antonyms

sunset

Derived terms

Translations

time of day

Afrikaans: sonopkoms, sonop
Arabic: شُرُوق (ar) (šurūq), شُرُوق الشَّمْس (šurūq aš-šams), بُكُور m (bukūr), غُدْوَة f (ḡudwa)
Armenian: արևածագ (hy) (arewacag)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܸܢܚܵܐ m (dinḳa)
Belarusian: усхо́д со́нца m (usxód sónca)
Bikol Central: pagsirang, pagsubang
Bulgarian: и́згрев (bg) m (ízgrev)
Catalan: sortida de sol f
Cherokee: ᎧᎸᎬ (kalvgv)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 日出 (jat⁶ ceot¹)

Mandarin: 日出 (zh) (rìchū)
Czech: východ slunce m
Danish: solopgang (da)
Dutch: zonsopgang (nl) m, zonsopkomst (nl) f, ochtendgloren (nl) n
Elfdalian: suoluppgaungg m
Esperanto: sunleviĝo
Estonian: päikesetõus, koit, koidik
Faroese: sólaruppkoma f
Finnish: auringonnousu (fi), päivänkoite (fi), päivännousu (fi) (poetic), päivänkoi (fi) (poetic), aamunkoi (fi) (poetic)
French: lever du soleil (fr) m, potron-minet (fr) m
Galician: mencer (gl), amencer (gl), alborada (gl) f, abrente (gl) m, lubricán m
Georgian: განთიადი (ka) (gantiadi), ცისკარი (cisḳari), აისი (aisi), გარიჟრაჟი (garižraži), რიჟრაჟი (rižraži), მზის ამოსვლა (mzis amosvla)
German: Sonnenaufgang (de) m
Gothic: 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 m (urruns)
Greek: ανατολή (el) f (anatolí)
Greenlandic: seqerngup nuinera
Guaraní: ko'êtî
Hebrew: זריחה \ זְרִיחָה (he) f (zrikhá)
Hindi: सूर्योदय (hi) m (sūryoday)
Hungarian: napkelte (hu), napfelkelte (hu)
Icelandic: sólarupprás (is) f
Ido: sunolevo (io)
Indonesian: fajar (id), fajar menyingsing (id)
Irish: éirí (na) gréine m
Italian: levar del sole m, aurora (it) f, alba (it) f, primo sole m, sorgere del sole m
Japanese: 日の出 (ja) (ひので, hi no de), 日出 (ja) (にっしゅつ, nisshutsu)
Kannada: ಸೂರ್ಯೋದಯ (kn) (sūryōdaya)
Khmer: ថ្ងៃរះ (thngay rĕəh)
Korean: 해돋이 (ko) (haedoji), 일출 (ko) (ilchul)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rojhilatin (ku)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: oriēns (la) m, aurōra (la) f, ortus m
Latvian: saullēkts (lv) m
Lithuanian: aušra (lt) f
Low German: Sünnopgang m
Lü: ᦎᦱᦞᧃᦀᦸᧅᧈ (ṫaavan˙ʼoak¹)
Luxembourgish: Sonnenopgang m
Macedonian: изгре́јсонце n (izgréjsonce), изгрев m (izgrev)
Manchu: ᡧᡠᠨ
ᠮᡠᡴᡩᡝᠮᠪᡳ (šun mukdembi)
Middle Persian: 𐭤𐭥𐭫𐭠𐭰𐭠𐭭𐭭 (xwarāsān), 𐭠𐭥𐭫𐭠𐭬𐭠𐭲𐭭𐭭 (ulāmadan)
Mizo: ni chhûak, ni chhuah
Navajo: haʼííʼą́ągo
Norman: l'vant du solé m (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: soloppgang (no) m, solrenning m or f

Nynorsk: soloppgang m, solrenning f
Old English: sunnan upgang m
Old High German: sunnūn ūfgang m
Ottoman Turkish: طوغمه (doğma)
Persian: برآمدن (fa) (bar-âmadan), دمیدن (fa) (damidan), طلوع (fa) (tolu')
Plautdietsch: Sonnoppgank m
Polish: wschód słońca (pl) m
Portuguese: nascer do sol m, aurora (pt)
Romanian: răsărit de soare n
Romansch: levada dal sulegl f
Russian: восхо́д со́лнца m (vosxód sólnca), (у́тренняя) заря́ f ((útrennjaja) zarjá), рассве́т (ru) m (rassvét), восхо́д (ru) m (vosxód)
Scottish Gaelic: èirigh na grèine f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: излазак сунца m

Roman: izlazak sunca m
Slovene: sončni vzhod m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: schadźenje słónca n
Southern Ohlone: pilpilte
Spanish: amanecer (es) m, salida del sol f, alba (es) f, orto (es) m, maitinada f, amanecida (es) f, alborada (es) f
Swahili: macheo
Swedish: soluppgång (sv) c
Telugu: సూర్యోదయము (te) (sūryōdayamu)
Thai: ตะวันขึ้น, อรุณ (th) (à-run), ยามเช้า, เช้ามืด (th) (cháao-mʉ̂ʉt)
Tocharian B: kauṃ-parki
Tok Pisin: sankamap
Turkish: güneş doğması, güneş doğuşu
Ukrainian: схід со́нця m (sxid sóncja)
Vietnamese: bình minh (vi)
Volapük: solasülöpikam (vo), sülöpikam sola
Welsh: codiad haul (cy)
West Frisian: sinne-opgong c
Yiddish: זונאויפֿגאַנג m (zunoyfgang)

sky changing color

Belarusian: зара́ f (zará), зара́нак m (zarának), до́світак n (dósvitak), світа́нне n (svitánnje)
Bulgarian: зора́ (bg) f (zorá), и́згрев (bg) m (ízgrev)
Danish: solopgang (da) c
Dutch: zonsopgang (nl) m
Estonian: päikesetõus, koit
Finnish: aamurusko (fi)
Galician: alborada (gl) f, abrente (gl) m, lubricán m
Georgian: გარიჟრაჟი (garižraži), განთიადი (ka) (gantiadi), მზის ამოსვლა (mzis amosvla), ცისკარი (cisḳari)
German: Sonnenaufgang (de) m
Hebrew: זריחה \ זְרִיחָה (he) f (zrikhá)
Hungarian: hajnalhasadás (hu)
Italian: aurora (it) f
Japanese: 朝焼け (ja) (あさやけ, asayake)
Korean: 아침놀 (achimnol)
Latin: aurōra (la) f
Macedonian: изгре́јсонце n (izgréjsonce)
Mizo: ni chhûak
Norwegian:
Bokmål: soloppgang (no) m

Nynorsk: soloppgang m
Old English: sunnan upgang m
Portuguese: aurora (pt) f
Romanian: crăparea zilei f
Russian: заря́ (ru) f (zarjá), рассве́т (ru) m (rassvét)
Scottish Gaelic: èirigh na grèine f
Serbo-Croatian: izlazak sunca
Spanish: albor (es) m, alboreo (es) m
Swedish: soluppgång (sv) c
Ukrainian: зоря́ (uk) f (zorjá), зірни́ця f (zirnýcja), світа́нок (uk) m (svitánok), світа́ння n (svitánnja)

figurative awakening

Arabic: شُرُوق (ar) m (šurūq), صَحْوَة f (ṣaḥwa)
Bulgarian: просвеще́ние (bg) n (prosvešténie)
Estonian: koit
Icelandic: dögun (is) f
Italian: alba (it) f, aurora (it) f, risveglio (it) m
Kannada: ಉದಯ (kn) (udaya)
Romanian: realizare (ro) f, trezire (ro) f
Spanish: amanecer (es) m, despertar (es) m, despierto (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Albanian: ^{(please verify)} lindja e diellit
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ochtendgloren (nl)
Isthmus Zapotec: ^{(please verify)} nacanda, ^{(please verify)} zeda irá gueelaʼ
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} saulėtekis m (1), ^{(please verify)} žara f (2)

Verb

sunrise (third-person singular simple present sunrises, present participle sunrising, simple past and past participle sunrised)

(business, uncommon, transitive) To phase in.
Antonym: sunset
- 2015, Matthias Gross, Linsey McGoey, editors, Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies‎^[3], Routledge, →ISBN:
  In the first type (upper left quadrant), alternative industrial movements (AIMs) focus on the sunrising of new technologies.

Anagrams

Sunseri, insures, nursies, ursines