raindrop

English

Raindrops

Etymology

Compound of rain +‎ drop, attested in Old English (reġndropa, rēndropa).

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: rānʹdrŏp, IPA: /ˈreɪndrɒp/, X-SAMPA: /'reIndrQp/
• (GenAm) enPR: rānʹdrŏp, IPA: /ˈreɪndrɑp/, X-SAMPA: /'reIndrAp/

Noun

raindrop (plural raindrops)

1. A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.
   • 1902, John Muir, "The Grand Cañon of the Colorado":

     It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries.

   • 1969, Hal David (lyricist), “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head”.

Translations

droplet of rainwater

• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: gota d'aigua (ca)
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雨滴 (cmn) (yǔdī), 雨點 (cmn), 雨点 (cmn) (yǔdiǎn)

• Danish: regndråbe (da)
• Dutch: regendruppel (nl) m
• Esperanto: pluvero (eo)
• Estonian: vihmapiisk (et)
• Faroese: regndropi (fo) m
• Finnish: sadepisara (fi)
• French: goutte de pluie (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Regentropfen (de) m
• Greek: στάλα (el) (stála)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
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• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: esőcsepp (hu)
• Icelandic: regndropi (is)
• Indonesian: titik hujan (id), tetes hujan (id)
• Japanese: 雨滴 (ja) (うてき, uteki), 雨垂れ (ja) (あまだれ, amadare), 雨粒 (ja) (あまつぶ, amatsubu)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: តំណក់ទឹកភ្លៀង (km) (tɑmnɑk tɨk pliəng)
• Korean: 빗방울 (ko) (bitbang-ul)

• Latvian: lietus lāse (lv)
• Lithuanian: lietaus lašas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Reendrëps (lb) f
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: മഴത്തുള്ളി (ml) (maḻattuḷḷi)
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regndråpe (no)

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kropla deszczu (pl)
• Portuguese: pingo (pt)
• Romanian: picătură de ploaie (ro)
• Russian: дождевая капля (ru) (doždevája káplja) f, капля дождя (ru) (káplja doždjá) f, дождинка (ru) (doždínka) f (colloquial)
• Scottish Gaelic: boinne (gd) uisge (gd)
• Slovak: kvapka (sk) dažďa (sk), dažďová (sk) kvapka (sk)
• Spanish: gota de lluvia (es) f
• Taos: łùléna
• Telugu: వానచినుకు (te) (vānacinuku)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: giọt mưa (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: diferion glaw (cy)
• Yiddish: ריינדראַפּ (yi)