Fanlight

A fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan, It is placed over another window or a doorway. and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a sunburst. It is also called a "sunburst light".

A chiefly British use of the word is to mean "transom".

See also

Lunette

Translation of "Fanlight"

Dutch: Bovenlicht, West Flemish: Boovnlucht.