thunderstorm

English

Etymology

From thunder +‎ storm.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: thŭnʹdər-stôrm', IPA^(key): /ˈθʌn.dɚˌstɔɹm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθʌn.dəˌstɔːm/

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• Hyphenation: thun‧der‧storm

Noun

thunderstorm (plural thunderstorms)

1. A storm consisting of thunder and lightning produced by a cumulonimbus, usually accompanied with heavy rain, wind, and sometimes hail; and in rarer cases sleet, freezing rain, or snow.

   Synonyms: (abbreviation) t-storm, lightning storm, electrical storm

   • 1936 July, John Buchan, “Lost Gods”, in The Island of Sheep, London: Hodder and Stoughton, published July 1938, →OCLC, part I (Fosse), page 11:

     I have never believed, as some people do, in omens and forewarnings, for the dramatic things in my life have generally come upon me as suddenly as a tropical thunder-storm.

Hypernyms

• storm
• unweather

Derived terms

• asthma thunderstorm
• dirty thunderstorm
• like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
• thunderstorm asthma
• thunderstormy

Translations

storm with thunder and lightning

• Afrikaans: onweer
• Albanian: shtrëngatë (sq) f
• Arabic: عَاصِفَة رَعْدِيَّة f (ʕāṣifa raʕdiyya)
• Armenian: ամպրոպ (hy) (amprop)
• Azerbaijani: tufan (az), fırtına (az)
• Belarusian: навальні́ца f (navalʹníca), бу́ра f (búra)
• Bulgarian: гръмотевична бу́ря f (grǎmotevična búrja)
• Catalan: tempesta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雷暴 (zh) (léibào)

• Czech: bouřka (cs) f
• Danish: tordenvejr (da) n
• Dutch: onweer (nl) n
• Egyptian: (nšnj m)
• Esperanto: fulmotondro
• Estonian: äikesetorm, äiksetorm, äike (et)
• Faroese: toruveður sg
• Finnish: ukkonen (fi), ukonilma (fi), ukkosmyrsky
• French: orage (fr) m
• Galician: torboada (gl) f, treboada (gl) f, trebón (gl) m, tromba (gl) f
• Georgian: ჭექა-ქუხილი (č̣eka-kuxili), ელჭექი (elč̣eki), ელჭექი წვიმით (elč̣eki c̣vimit), ელჭექი წვიმითა და ქარიშხლით (elč̣eki c̣vimita da karišxlit), ჭექა-ქუხილი და ქარიშხალი (č̣eka-kuxili da karišxali), ჭექა-ქუხილი და წვიმა (č̣eka-kuxili da c̣vima)
• German: Gewitter (de) n
• Greek: καταιγίδα (el) f (kataigída)

  Ancient: θύελλα f (thúella), καταιγίς f (kataigís)

• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: סוּפַת רַעֲמִים
• Hindi: आंधी (hi) f (āndhī)
• Hungarian: égiháború (hu)
• Icelandic: þrumuveður (is) n
• Ido: stormo
• Indonesian: badai petir, badai guntur (id)
• Interlingua: tempesta de tonitro
• Irish: léidearnach thoirní f, spéirling f, stoirm thoirní f
• Italian: temporale (it) m
• Japanese: 雷雨 (ja) (らいう, raiu)
• Kazakh: найзағай (naizağai)
• Khmer: ព្យុះមានរន្ទះផ្គរ (pyuh mien rʊənteah pkɔɔ), ព្យុះភ្លៀង (pyuh pliəŋ)
• Korean: 뇌우 (ko) (noe'u)
• Ladino: borraska, oraje
• Latgalian: nelaiks
• Latvian: negaiss m
• Lithuanian: perkūnija f
• Macedonian: бу́ра f (búra), лу́ња f (lúnja)
• Malay: ribut petir
• Maori: pūeaea
• Mongolian: аянгатай бороо (ajangataj boroo), аадар бороо (aadar boroo)
• Navajo: níłtsą́ bikąʼ
• Northern Sami: bajándálki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tordenvær n

  Nynorsk: torevêr n

• Occitan: chavana (oc) f, auratge (oc) m, periclada f
• Persian: طوفان (fa) (tufân)
• Polish: burza (pl) f
• Portuguese: tempestade de trovão f, tempestade de trovões f, tempestade de raios f
• Romanian: furtună (ro) f
• Russian: гроза́ (ru) f (grozá), бу́ря (ru) f (búrja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: олуја f, грмљавина f

  Roman: oluja (sh) f, grmljavina (sh) f

• Slovak: búrka f
• Slovene: nevihta (sl) f
• Spanish: tormenta (es) f, tormenta electrica f, tronada (es)
• Swedish: åskväder (sv) n
• Tajik: раъду барқ (raʾdu barq), тӯфон (tg) (tüfon)
• Thai: พายุฝนฟ้าคะนอง, พายุฟ้าคะนอง
• Turkish: oraj
• Ukrainian: гроза́ f (hrozá), бу́ря (uk) f (búrja)
• Urdu: آندھی (ur) f (āndhī), ژالہ بازی (žāla bāzī)
• Vietnamese: dông (vi), giông (vi), bão tố có sấm sét
• Welsh: storm fellt a tharannau f
• West Frisian: ûnwaar
• Zulu: ukuduma kwezulu

References

• thunderstorm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia