rain cloud

See also: raincloud

English

Alternative forms

• raincloud

Noun

rain cloud (plural rain clouds)

1. A cloud from which rain is falling or may fall.
   • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 214:

     Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wet asphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.

Synonyms

• (cloud from which rain is falling): nimbus

Translations

cloud from which rain is falling

• Belarusian: дажджавая хмара (daždžavaja xmara)
• Burmese: မိုးတိမ်တိုက် (my) (mui:timtuik), မိုးသား (my) (mui:sa:)
• Catalan: nimbus (ca) m, núvol plugisser m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雨雲／雨云 (zh) (yǔyún), 雨云 (zh) (yǔyún)

• Dutch: regenwolk (nl) f, nimbuswolk f
• Dzongkha: ཆར་སྤྲིན (char sprin)
• Esperanto: pluvnubo
• Finnish: sadepilvi
• French: nimbus (fr)
• Georgian: საწვიმარი ღრუბელი (sac̣vimari ɣrubeli)
• German: Regenwolke f, Nimbus (de), Schleierwolke f
• Hungarian: esőfelhő (hu), nimbusz (hu), nimbuszfelhő
• Icelandic: regnský (is) n, úrkomuský n, regnþykkni (is) n
• Ilocano: kuyemyem
• Irish: scamall báistí m
• Istriot: nenbo m
• Italian: nuvola (it) f, nube (it) f, nembo (it) m
• Japanese: 雨雲 (ja) (あまぐも, amagumo)
• Korean: 비구름 (ko) (bigureum)
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• Latin: nimbus (la) m
• Lubuagan Kalinga: libuu, bulot
• Luxembourgish: Reewollek f
• Macedonian: дождовен облак m (doždoven oblak)
• Maori: okewa
• North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) swark n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regnsky m or f

  Nynorsk: regnsky f

• Persian: مزنه (mozne)
• Pitjantjatjara: ngangkaḻi
• Portuguese: nimbo (pt)
• Russian: дождевая ту́ча (doždevaja túča), дождево́е о́блако n (doždevóje óblako)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mrokawa m, mrok m

• Spanish: nimbo (es) m
• Swedish: regnmoln (sv) n
• Tagalog: dagim
• Venetian: nenbo m
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: reinalefog

See also

• storm cloud

Anagrams

• uncordial