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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English cloud, cloude, clod, clud, clude, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”). Cognate with Scots cloud, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), Low German kluut, klute, kloot (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, dumpling, meatball”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to clod, clot.
Pronunciation [edit]
cloud (plural clouds)
- (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.
- (computing, with the) The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- 2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2 - 3 Man Utd”, BBC:
- The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.
- (slang) crystal methamphetamine
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Translations [edit]
visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Aguaruna: yuhagkim
- Albanian: re (sq) f
- Alviri-Vidari:
- Vidari: اور (evr)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Aneme Wake: ou
- Arabic: سحابة (ar) (saḥāba, siḥāba) f, غيمة (ar) (gháyma) f
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܥܢܢܐ (ʕnānā’) f
- Hebrew: עננא (ʕnānā’) f
- Armenian: ամպ (hy) (amp)
- Aromanian: nior (rup)
- Asturian: ñube (ast) f
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Aymara: qinaya (ay)
- Azeri: bulud (az)
- Baluchi: جڑ (juř), جمر (jamar, jammar), جمبر (jambar)
- Bashkir: болот (bolot)
- Basque: hodei (eu)
- Bau Bidayuh: abun
- Baure: roeamokonoe'
- Belarusian: хмара (be) (xmára) f
- Bengali: মেঘ (bn) (megh)
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: облак (bg) m (oblak)
- Burmese: တိမ် (my) (tein)
- Catalan: núvol (ca) m
- Chamicuro: polawa'ti
- Chechen: марха (marxa)
- Cherokee: ᎤᎶᎩᎸ (chr) (ulogilv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 雲 (cmn), 云 (cmn) (yún)
- Chuvash: пӗлӗт (pĕlĕt)
- Crimean Tatar: bulut
- Czech: mrak (cs) m, oblak (cs) m
- Danish: sky (da) c
- Darkinjung: yura
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dolgan: былыт (bılıt)
- Dutch: wolk (nl) f
- Eastern Arrernte: please add this translation if you can
- Eshtehardi: اِاُر (eor)
- Esperanto: nubo (eo)
- Estonian: pilv (et)
- Ewe: alĩlikpo n
- Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: skýggj (fo) n
- Finnish: pilvi (fi)
- French: nuage (fr) m
- Friulian: nûl
- Gagauz: bulut
- Georgian: ღრუბელი (ka) (ḡrubeli)
- German: Wolke (de) f, (collective) Gewölk (de) n
- Greek: σύννεφο (el) (sýnnefo) n
- Ancient: νέφος (nephos) n
- Greenlandic: nuiaq (kl)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: मेघ (hi) (megh) m, बादल (hi) (bādal) m, अभ्र (hi) (abhr) m
- Hungarian: felhő (hu), felleg (hu)
- Icelandic: ský (is) n
- Ido: nubo (io)
- Igbo: please add this translation if you can
- Ilocano: ulep (ilo)
- Indonesian: awan (id), mega (id)
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: scamall (ga) m, néal (ga) m
- Italian: nuvola (it) f, nube (it) f
- Japanese: 雲 (ja) (くも, kumo)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Jèrriais: nouage m
- Kalmyk: үүлн (üüln)
- Kannada: ಮೇಘ (kn) (mēgha)
- Karachay-Balkar: булут (bulut)
- Karakalpak: bult
- Kazakh: бұлт (kk) (bult)
- Khakas: пулут (pulut)
- Khmer: ពពក (km) (bpobpok)
- Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
- Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
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- Korean: 구름 (ko) (gureum)
- Kumyk: булут (bulut)
- Kurdish: hewr (ku), ewr (ku)
- Kyrgyz: булут (ky) (bulut)
- Lao: ເມກ (lo) (meek), ເຝື້ອ (lo) (fuea)
- Latgalian: muokuļs, (rain-cloud) tyucs
- Latin: nūbēs (la) f
- Latvian: mākonis (lv) m
- Laz: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: debesis (lt)
- Lojban: dilnu (jbo)
- Luxembourgish: Wollek (lb) f
- Macedonian: облак (mk) (óblak) m
- Malagasy: rahona (mg), rahona (mg)
- Malay: awan (ms), mega (ms)
- Malayalam: മേഘം (ml) (mēghaṁ)
- Maltese: sħaba (mt) f
- Maori: kapua (mi)
- Marathi: ढग (mr) (ḍhaga) m, मेघ (mr) (megha)
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Mon: မတ် ဗြဲ (mòt pròa)
- Mongolian: үүл (mn) (üül)
- Mòcheno: bolkh
- Nahuatl: mixtli (nah)
- Navajo: kʼos
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sky (nb) m and f
- Nynorsk: sky (nn) f
- Occitan: please add this translation if you can
- Okinawan: くむ (kumu)
- Old English: wolcen (ang) n
- Oriya: ମେଘ (or) (megha)
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: ابر (fa) (abr)
- Pitjantjatjara: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: chmura (pl) f
- Portuguese: nuvem (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਬੱਦਲ (pa) (baddal)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: nor (ro) m
- Romansch: nivel (rm) m, nibel (rm) m, neivel (rm) m, nebla (rm) f, neabla (rm) f, nüvla (rm) f
- Russia Buryat: үүлэн (üülen)
- Russian: облако (ru) (óblako) n , туча (ru) (túča) f (dark cloud)
- Sanskrit: मेघ (sa) (megha), (thunder-cloud) अभ्र (sa) (abhrá) n
- Scots: clood
- Scottish Gaelic: neul (gd) m, sgòth (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian: ȍblāk (sh) m, о̏бла̄к (sh) m
- Shor: пулут (pulut)
- Sicilian: nuvula (scn) f
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: mrak (sk) m, oblak (sk) m
- Slovene: oblak (sl) m
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Southern Altai: булут (bulut)
- Spanish: nube (es) f
- Swahili: wingu (sw)
- Swedish: moln (sv), sky (sv)
- Tagalog: ulap (tl)
- Tajik: абр (tg) (abr)
- Tamil: மேகம் (ta) (mēkam)
- Taos: phę́na
- Tatar: болыт (tt), bolıt (tt)
- Telugu: మేఘము (te) (mēghamu)
- Thai: เมฆ (th) (még)
- Tlingit: kugóos
- Tocharian A: tärkär
- Tocharian B: tarkär
- Turkish: bulut (tr)
- Turkmen: bulut (tk)
- Tuvan: булут (bulut)
- Ukrainian: хмара (uk) (xmára) f
- Urdu: میگھ (ur) (megh) m, بادل (ur) (bādal) m, ابر (ur) (abr) m
- Uyghur: بۇلۇت (ug)
- Uzbek: bulut (uz)
- Vietnamese: mây (vi)
- Volapük: lefog (vo), (collective) lefogem (vo)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: cwmwl (cy) m, cymylau (cy) m pl
- Yakut: былыт (bılıt)
- Zulu: ifu (zu) 5/6, iyezi (zu) 5/6
- ǃXóõ: ǃqhàa gǀqhūã
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mass of dust, steam or smoke
anything which makes things foggy or gloomy
group of objects suspended above the ground or flying
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- Latin: nūbēs (la) f (1, 2, 3)
- Lithuanian: debesis m
- Maltese: sħaba f
- Maori: kapua, ao
- Malayalam: മേഘം, മുകില്, കൊണ്ടല്, ജലധാര
- Maltese: shaba
- Mongolian: үүл (üül)
- Occitan: nivol f
- Ojibwe: aanakwad
- Powhatan: arakwat
- Romanian: nor m
- Sanskrit: मेघ m
- Sardinian (Campidanese): nui m
- Slovene: oblak m
- Spanish: nube m
- Swahili: wingu
- Swedish: moln n
- Tagalog: alapaap, ulap
- Tamil: மேகம்
- Telugu: మేఘము (1), మబ్బులు (usually plural) (1)
- Tupinambá: ybatinga, ybytinga (1)
- Turkish: bulut
- Ukrainian: хмара (xmára) f
- Volapük: lefog
- Welsh: cwmwl m
- Yiddish: וואָלקן (volkn) m, כמאַרע (khmare) f
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See also [edit]
cloud (third-person singular simple present clouds, present participle clouding, simple past and past participle clouded)
- To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
- To make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue).
Translations [edit]
to become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight
to make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue)
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