drowning

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaʊnɪŋ/

Verb

drowning

1. present participle and gerund of drown

Noun

drowning (plural drownings)

1. An instance of a person or animal drowning.

   It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.

2. An instance of a person or animal being drowned.

Derived terms

• drowning chain
• secondary drowning

 

Translations

instance of drowning

• Arabic: غَرَق m (ḡaraq)

  Hijazi Arabic: غَرَق m (ḡarag)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: ofegament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溺水的

• Czech: tonoucí (cs) n, utopení n
• Dutch: verdrinking (nl)
• Estonian: uppumine
• Finnish: hukkuminen (fi)
• French: noyade (fr) f
• German: Ertrinken (de) n
• Greek: πνιγμός (el) m (pnigmós), πνίξιμο (el) n (pníximo)
• Hebrew: טביעה (he) f (t'vi'a)
• Hungarian: fulladás (hu)
• Italian: annegamento (it)
• Macedonian: давење n (davenje)
• Polish: utonięcie (pl) n
• Portuguese: afogamento (pt) m
• Russian: утопле́ние (ru) n (utoplénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: utapanje
• Spanish: ahogamiento (es) m
• Swedish: drukning
• Welsh: bawdd, boddiad

instance of being drowned

• Finnish: hukuttaminen (fi), hukutus

Anagrams

• ringdown, wondring