ball lightning

English

Etymology

A calque of German Kugelblitz.

Noun

ball lightning (usually uncountable, plural ball lightnings)

1. A short-lived glowing ball sometimes observed to float in the air and thought to consist of ionized gas associated with thunderstorms.

Translations

a short-lived, glowing ball sometimes observed to float in the air

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 球狀閃電／球状闪电 (zh) (qiúzhuàng shǎndiàn), 球状闪电 (qiúzhuàng shǎndiàn), 球雷 (qiúléi)

• Czech: kulový blesk m
• Danish: kuglelyn
• Dena'ina: el'ekna daz'a
• Dutch: bolbliksem
• Esperanto: globa fulmo
• Estonian: keravälk
• Finnish: pallosalama (fi)
• French: foudre en boule f
• German: Kugelblitz (de) m
• Hebrew: כדור ברק m
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• Hungarian: gömbvillám
• Italian: fulmine globulare m
• Japanese: 球電 (きゅうでん, kyūden)
• Kazakh: жұмбақ найзағай (jūmbaq naizağai)
• Lithuanian: kamuolinis žaibas
• Norwegian: kulelyn
• Polish: piorun kulisty m
• Portuguese: raio globular m
• Russian: шарова́я мо́лния f (šarovája mólnija)
• Spanish: rayo globular m
• Swedish: klotblixt (sv) c, kulblixt
• Vietnamese: sét hòn