From land + slide.
landslide (plural landslides)
- A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
- A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
The candidate won by a landslide.
natural disaster
- Arabic: اِنْهِيَار أَرْضِيّ m (inhiyār ʔarḍiyy)
- Armenian: սողանք (hy) (soġankʻ)
- Asturian: argayu m
- Basque: luizi
- Belarusian: апо́ўзень m (apóŭzjenʹ), абва́л m (abvál)
- Bulgarian: свличане (bg) n (svličane), свлачище (bg) n (svlačište)
- Burmese: မြေပြိုခြင်း (mre-pruihkrang:)
- Catalan: ensulsiada (ca), esllavissada f, esllavissament m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 山崩 (zh) (shānbēng), 滑坡 (zh) (huápō), 地滑 (zh) (dìhuá), 塌方 (zh) (tāfāng)
- Danish: bjergskred n, jordskred (da) n
- Dutch: lawine (nl) m or f, aardverschuiving (nl)
- Esperanto: terŝoviĝo
- Finnish: maanvyöry (fi), maanvyörymä (fi)
- French: glissement de terrain (fr) m
- Friulian: slac m
- Galician: muracán m, freita f, nafreita f, barronca f, sulda f, fana f, esbarrondamento m
- Georgian: მეწყერი (mec̣q̇eri)
- German: Erdrutsch (de) m
- Alemannic German: Rufi f
- Greek: κατολίσθηση (el) f (katolísthisi)
- Hebrew: מַפֹּלֶת (he) f (mapólet)
- Hindi: भूस्खलन m (bhūskhalan)
- Hungarian: földcsuszamlás (hu)
- Indonesian: tanah longsor (id)
- Irish: maidhm thalún f, sciorradh talún m
- Italian: frana (it) f, smottamento (it) f, slavina (it) f
- Japanese: 地滑り (ja) (じすべり, ji-suberi), 山崩れ (ja) (やまくずれ, yama-kuzure), 山津波 (ja) (やまつなみ, yama-tsunami), 土砂崩れ (どしゃくずれ, dosha-kuzure)
- Kazakh: жылжыма (jyljyma), көшкін (kk) (köşkın)
- Korean: 산사태(山沙汰) (ko) (sansatae)
- Ladin: roa f
- Lao: ດິນເກື່ອນ (din kư̄an)
- Latin: lābīna f
- Malay: tanah runtuh (ms)
- Malayalam: മണ്ണിടിച്ചിൽ (ml) (maṇṇiṭiccil)
- Maori: horo, horowhenua
- Maranao: anas, tempag, tobak
- Norwegian: steinras n
- Bokmål: jordras n, jordskred (no) n
- Nynorsk: jordras n, jordskred n
- Plautdietsch: Ieedrutsch f
- Pohnpeian: engk
- Polish: osuwisko (pl) n
- Portuguese: deslizamento (pt) m, desabamento m, derrocada (pt) f
- Quechua: lluqlla
- Romanian: alunecare de teren f, alunecare de pământ f
- Russian: о́ползень (ru) m (ópolzenʹ), обва́л (ru) m (obvál), лави́на (ru) f (lavína)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: клизиште n, о̀дрон m, о̀сулина f
- Roman: klizište (sh) n, òdron (sh) m, òsulina (sh) f
- Sinhalese: නායයෑම් (nāyayǣm)
- Slovene: plaz (sl) m
- Spanish: corrimiento de tierra m, deslave (es) m (Latin America), desprendimiento (es) m, argayo (es) m (Spain)
- Swedish: jordskred (sv) n
- Tagalog: guho ng lupa, guhunlupa
- Thai: ดินถล่ม (din-tà-lòm), แผ่นดินถล่ม (pɛ̀n-din-tà-lòm)
- Tibetan: རྫ་རྡོ (rdza rdo), ས་རུད (sa rud)
- Ukrainian: зсув (uk) m (zsuv), о́повзень m (ópovzenʹ), обва́л m (obvál)
- Uzbek: oʻpirilish (uz), siljish (uz), koʻchish
- Vietnamese: lở đất (vi), sạt lở đất
- Welsh: tirlithriad m, cwymp tir m
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vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority
landslide (third-person singular simple present landslides, present participle landsliding, simple past and past participle landslid)
- To undergo a landslide.
1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356:So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.
