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From the Old English clud.
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cloud (plural clouds)
- 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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visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air
- Aguaruna: yuhagkim
- Albanian: re (sq) f.
- Aneme Wake: ou
- Arabic: سحابة (ar) (saHaaba, siHaaba) f., غيمة (ar) (gháyma) f.
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܥܢܢܐ (ʕnānā’) f.
- Hebrew: עננא (ʕnānā’) f.
- Armenian: ամպ (hy) (amp)
- Aromanian: nior
- Asturian: ñube (ast) f.
- Azeri: bulud (az)
- Bashkir: болот (bolot)
- Basque: hodei (eu)
- Baure: roeamokonoe'
- Belarusian: хмара (be) (xmára) f.
- Bengali: মেঘ (megh)
- Bulgarian: облак (bg) m.
- Burmese: တိမ် (my) (tein)
- Catalan: núvol (ca) m.
- Chamicuro: polawa'ti
- Chechen: марха (marxa)
- 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
- Dolgan: былыт (bılıt)
- Dutch: wolk (nl) f.
- Eshtehardi: اِاُر (eor)
- Esperanto: nubo (eo)
- Estonian: pilv (et)
- Ewe: alĩlikpo n.
- Faroese: skýggj (fo) n.
- Finnish: pilvi (fi)
- French: nuage (fr) m.
- Friulian: nûl
- Gagauz: bulut
- Georgian: ღრუბელი (ḡrubeli)
- German: Wolke (de) f.
- Greek: σύννεφο (el) (sýnnefo) n.
- Greenlandic: nuiaq (kl)
- 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)
- Ilocano: ulep
- Indonesian: awan (id), mega (id)
- Irish: scamall (ga) m., néal (ga) m.
- Italian: nuvola (it) f., nube (it) f.
- Japanese: 雲 (ja) (くも, kumo), 靄 (ja) (もや, moya), 霧 (ja) (きり, kiri)
- Kalmyk: үүлн (üüln)
- Kannada: ಮೇಘ (kn) (mēgha)
- Karachay-Balkar: булут (bulut)
- Karakalpak: bult
- Kazakh: бұлт (kk) (bult)
- Khakas: пулут (pulut)
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- Khmer: ពពក (km) (bpobpok)
- Korean: 구름 (ko) (gureum)
- Kumyk: булут (bulut)
- Kurdish: hewr (ku), ewr (ku)
- Kyrgyz: булут (ky) (bulut)
- Lao: ເມກ (lo) (meek), ເຝື້ອ (lo) (fuea)
- Latin: nūbēs (la) f.
- Latvian: mākonis (lv) m.
- Lithuanian: debesis (lt)
- Lojban: dilnu (jbo)
- Luxembourgish: Wollek (lb) f.
- Macedonian: облак (mk) (óblak) m.
- Malagasy: rahona (mg)
- Malayalam: മേഘം (ml) (mēghaṁ)
- Maltese: sħaba (mt) f.
- Mon: မတ် ဗြဲ (mòt pròa)
- Mongolian: үүл (mn) (üül)
- Nahuatl: mixtli (nah)
- Navajo: kʼos
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sky (nb) m. and f.
- Nynorsk: sky (nn) f.
- Okinawan: くむ (kumu)
- Old English: wolcen (ang) n.
- Persian: ابر (fa) (abr)
- Polish: chmura (pl) f.
- Portuguese: nuvem (pt) f.
- 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.
- Scottish Gaelic: neul (gd) m., sgòth (gd) f.
- Serbo-Croatian: ȍblāk (sh) m., о̏бла̄к (sh) m.
- Shor: пулут (pulut)
- Sicilian: nuvula f.
- 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)
- 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)
- Welsh: cwmwl (cy) m., cymylau (cy) m. pl.
- !Xóõ: !qhàa gǀqhūã
- Yakut: былыт (bılıt)
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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
- Malay: awan
- Malayalam: മേഘം, മുകില്, കൊണ്ടല്, ജലധാര
- Maltese: shaba
- Mongolian: үүл (üül)
- Norwegian: sky m.
- Occitan: nivol f.
- Ojibwe: aanakwad
- Persian: ابر
- Powhatan: arakwat
- Romanian: nor m.
- Sanskrit: मेघ m.
- Sardinian (Campidanese): nui m.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: облак m. (1, 2, 3)
- Roman: oblak m. (1, 2, 3)
- 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.
- Zulu: ukujiya
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[edit] See also
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).
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to become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight
to make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue)
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Cloud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cloud on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons
