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Etymology [edit]
Middle English ertheqwake, corresponding to earth + quake.
Pronunciation [edit]
earthquake (plural earthquakes)
- A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- 2006, Declan Walsh, The Guardian, 6 Oct 2006:
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.
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Translations [edit]
shaking of the surface of a planet
- Afrikaans: ardbewing (af)
- Albanian: tërmet (sq) m
- Arabic: زلزال (ar) (zilzāl) m
- Aragonese: tierratremo, terrentrín
- Armenian: երկրաշարժ (hy) (erkrašarž)
- Azeri: zəlzələ (az)
- Basque: lurrikara
- Belarusian: землятрус (be) (zemljatrús) m
- Bengali: ভূমিকম্প (bn) (bhumikômpô)
- Breton: kren-douar (br) m
- Bulgarian: земетресение (bg) (zemetresénie) n
- Catalan: terratrèmol (ca) m
- Chamicuro: ijmulalaki
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 地震 (cmn) (dìzhèn)
- Czech: zemětřesení (cs) n
- Danish: jordskælv (da) n
- Dutch: aardbeving (nl) f, aardschok (nl) m
- Esperanto: tertremo (eo)
- Estonian: maavärin (et)
- Faroese: jarðskjálvti (fo)
- Finnish: maanjäristys (fi)
- French: tremblement de terre (fr) m, séisme (fr) m
- Galician: terremoto, terramoto, sismo
- Georgian: მიწისძვრა (ka) (micisjvra)
- German: Erdbeben (de) n
- Greek: σεισμός (el) (seismós) m , (personification) Εγκέλαδος (el) (Egkélados) m
- Greenlandic: nunap sajunnera (kl)
- Haitian Creole: tranbleman detè, tranblemanntè, tranblemandtè
- Hebrew: רעידת אדמה (he) (reidat adama) f, רעש אדמה (he) (raash adama) m
- Hindi: भूकंप (hi) (bhūkamp) m
- Hungarian: földrengés (hu)
- Icelandic: jarðskjálfti (is) m
- Indonesian: gempa bumi (id)
- Irish: crith talún (ga) m
- Italian: terremoto (it) m, sisma (it) m
- Japanese: 地震 (ja) (じしん, jishin)
- Kazakh: жер сілкіну (kk) (jer silkinu) , зілзала (kk) (zilzala)
- Korean: 지진 (ko) (jijin) (地震 (ko))
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- Kurdish: erdhej (ku) f
- Sorani: بوومهلهرزه
- Lao: ແຜ່ນດິນໄຫວ (lo)
- Latin: terraemotus (la) m (4th declension)
- Latvian: zemestrīce (lv) f
- Lithuanian: žemės drebėjimas (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Äerdbiewen
- Malay: gempa (ms)
- Maltese: terremot (mt) m
- Maori: rū (mi)
- Navajo: kéyah haʼdéísná
- Norwegian: jordskjelv (no) n
- Occitan: tèrratrem, tèrratremol
- Persian: زمینلرزه (fa) (zamin-e larze), زلزله (fa) (zelzele)
- Polish: trzęsienie ziemi (pl) n
- Portuguese: terramoto (pt) m, terremoto (pt) m, tremor de terra (pt) m
- Romanian: cutremur (ro) n
- Russian: землетрясение (ru) (zemletrjasénije) n
- Scottish Gaelic: crith-thalmhainn f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: земљотрес (sh) m, потрес (sh) m
- Roman: zemljotres (sh) m, potres (sh) m
- Slovak: zemetrasenie (sk) n
- Slovene: potres (sl) m
- Spanish: terremoto (es) m, temblor (es) m, chaka (es) f
- Swahili: tetemeko (noun 5/6)
- Swedish: jordbävning (sv) c
- Tagalog: lindol (tl)
- Tajik: заминларза (tg) (zaminlarza)
- Telugu: భూకంపం (bhookampam)
- Thai: แผ่นดินไหว (th) (pàen din wăi)
- Tok Pisin: guria
- Turkish: deprem (tr), zelzele (tr)
- Ukrainian: землетрус (uk) (zemletrús) m
- Urdu: زلزلہ (ur) (zalzalā)
- Uyghur: زىلزىلە (ug) (zilzile), يەر تەۋرەش (ug) (yer tewresh)
- Vietnamese: địa chấn (vi) (地震 (vi)), động đất (vi)
- Walloon: tronnmint d' tere
- Welsh: daeargryn
- Yiddish: ערטקווייק (yi)
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