downpour

English

Etymology

down- +‎ pour

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /daʊn.pɔː(ɹ)/ X-SAMPA: /daUn.pO:(r)/

Noun

downpour (plural downpours)

1. a heavy rain

   They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.

Synonyms

• cloudburst
• deluge
• rain
• rainstorm
• storm
• wet
• torrent
• monsoon
• inundation

Related terms

• rain cats and dogs

Translations

heavy rain

• Arabic: وابل (ar) (waabil) m, مطر غزير (ar) (máTar ghaziir) m, شؤبوب (ar) (shu'buub) m
• Armenian: տարափ (hy) (tarap’)
• Bulgarian: порой (bg) (poroj) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大雨 (cmn) (dàyǔ), 傾盆大雨 (cmn), 倾盆大雨 (cmn) (qīngpéndàyǔ)

• Finnish: kaatosade (fi), rankkasade (fi)
• French: trombe (fr), averse (fr) f
• German: Regenguss (de) m
• Italian: acquazzone (it) m
• Japanese: 大雨 (ja) (おおあめ, ōame), 土砂降り (ja) (どしゃぶり, doshaburi)

• Jèrriais: dêtchèrque f, dêcliaitchie f
• Old Prussian: aglā
• Polish: ulewa (pl) f
• Portuguese: temporal (pt)
• Russian: ливень (ru) (líven') m
• Serbo-Croatian: jaka kiša (sh) f, pljusak (sh) m
• Spanish: chaparrón (es) m, aguacero (es)
• Turkish: sağanak (tr), sağnak (tr)
• Ukrainian: злива (uk) (zlýva) f

Verb

downpour (third-person singular simple present downpours, present participle downpouring, simple past and past participle downpoured)

1. (intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.
   • 2002, Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211:

     It started to downpour, so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.

Derived terms

• downpouring