English
drouth ( Scotland, Northern England, poetry )
Etymology
From Middle English droghte , drouȝte , druhhþe , druȝþe , drouȝth , from Old English drūgaþ . Cognate with Dutch droogte , Low German Dröögde .
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: -aʊt
Noun
drought (countable and uncountable , plural droughts )
A period of unusually low rainfall , longer and more severe than a dry spell .
2012 January, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist [1] , volume 100 , number 1, page 70 :Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought , and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
( by extension, informal ) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
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Translations
period of unusually low rain fall
Afrikaans: droogte
Albanian: thatësirë (sq) f
Amharic: ድርቅ ( dərḳ )
Arabic: جَفَاف m ( jafāf )
Armenian: երաշտ (hy) ( erašt )
Aromanian: seatsitã f , uscãciuni f , sicãturã f
Asturian: seca (ast) f , secura f
Atayal: mtkzyay
Avestan: 𐬛𐬎𐬱𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬭𐬆 ( dušiiārə ) , 𐬛𐬎𐬲𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 ( dužiiāi riia )
Azerbaijani: quraqlıq (az)
Bashkir: ҡоролоҡ ( qoroloq )
Basque: lehorte
Belarusian: за́суха f ( zásuxa )
Bengali: খরা (bn) ( khora )
Breton: sec'hor (br) f
Bulgarian: су́ша (bg) f ( súša )
Burmese: မိုးခေါင်ခြင်း ( mui:hkaunghkrang: ) , ရေငတ်ခြင်း ( re-ngathkrang: )
Catalan: sequera f , secada (ca) f , seca (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 旱災 / 旱灾 (zh) ( hànzāi ) , 旱灾 (zh) ( hànzāi ) , 乾旱 / 干旱 (zh) ( gānhàn ) , 干旱 (zh) ( gānhàn )
Czech: sucho (cs) n
Danish: tørke (da) c
Dutch: droogte (nl) f
Esperanto: trosekeco , sekegeco
Estonian: põud
Faroese: turkur m
Finnish: kuivuus (fi)
French: sécheresse (fr) f , siccité (fr) f
Galician: seca (gl) f , secura (gl) f
Georgian: გვალვა ( gvalva )
German: Dürre (de) f , Trockenzeit (de) f , Trockenheit (de) f
Greek: ξηρασία (el) ( xirasía )
Ancient: ἀβροχία f ( abrokhía ) , αὐχμός m ( aukhmós )
Guaraní: kyve'y
Gujarati: દુકાળ m ( dukāḷ )
Haitian Creole: sechrès
Hebrew: בַּצֹּרֶת \ בצרת (he)
Hindi: सूखा (hi) m ( sūkhā ) , अनावृष्टि (hi) f ( anāvŕṣṭi ) , खुश्की (hi) f ( khuśkī ) , अकाल (hi) m ( akāl ) , अवर्षण (hi) m ( avarṣaṇ )
Hungarian: aszály (hu)
Iban: sanggau
Icelandic: þurrkar m
Indonesian: kekeringan (id)
Irish: triomach m
Italian: siccità f , secco (it) m , asciugaggine f
Japanese: 旱魃 ( かんばつ, kanbatsu )
Kannada: ಬರ (kn) ( bara )
Kazakh: құрғақшылық (kk) ( qūrğaqşylyq )
Khmer: រាំងរំហួត ( rĕəng rumhuət ) , រាំងរឹះ ( rĕəng rɨh )
Korean: 가뭄 (ko) ( gamum )
Kyrgyz: кургакчылык ( kurgakcılık )
Lao: ແລ້ງ ( lǣng ) , ຝົນແລ້ງ ( fon lǣng ) , ຟ້າແລ້ງ ( fā lǣng ) , ໄພແຫ້ງແລ້ງ ( phai ngǣ lǣng )
Latin: siccitas f
Latvian: sausums m
Lithuanian: sausra f
Luxembourgish: Dréchent (lb) f
Macedonian: суша f ( suša )
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Malay: kemarau
Malayalam: വരൾച്ച ( varaḷcca )
Maltese: nixfa f
Maori: tauraki
Marathi: दुष्काळ ( duṣkāḷ )
Mirandese: seca
Mongolian: ган (mn) ( gan )
Ngazidja Comorian: ntsahaya nkavu class 9
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tørke m or f
Nynorsk: tørke m
Occitan: secada (oc) f
Old Persian: 𐎯𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐎶 ( dušiyāram )
Parthian: 𐭃𐭅𐭔𐭉𐭀𐭓 ( dušyār )
Pashto: وچکالي (ps) f ( wəčkālí )
Persian: خشکسالی ( xošk-sâli )
Pitjantjatjara: ailuru
Polish: susza (pl) f
Portuguese: seca (pt) f , estiagem (pt) f
Punjabi: ਸੋਕਾ (pa) ( sokā )
Quechua: ch'akiy , ch'aki pacha
Romanian: secetă (ro) , uscăciune (ro) f
Russian: за́суха (ru) f ( zásuxa ) , засу́шливость (ru) f ( zasúšlivostʹ ) , сушь (ru) f ( sušʹ )
Sanskrit: अवृष्टि (sa) f ( avṛṣṭi ) , अनावृष्टि (sa) f ( anāvṛṣṭi ) , दुर्वृष्टि (sa) f ( durvṛṣṭi )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: суша f
Roman: suša (sh) f
Shona: shangwa
Sinhalese: නියඟය (si) ( niyaⁿgaya )
Slovak: sucho n
Slovene: suša (sl) f
Spanish: sequía (es) f , seca (es) f
Swahili: kiangazi (sw) , ukame (sw)
Swedish: torka (sv) c
Tagalog: bisi , baisi , tagtuyot
Tajik: хушксолӣ ( xušksoli )
Tamil: வறட்சி (ta) ( vaṟaṭci )
Tatar: корылык (tt) ( qorılıq )
Telugu: అనావృష్టి (te) ( anāvr̥ṣṭi )
Thai: ภัยแล้ง ( pai-lɛ́ɛng ) , น้ำแล้ง ( náam-lɛ́ɛng ) , แล้ง (th) ( lɛ́ɛng )
Tibetan: ཐེན་པ ( then pa )
Tigrinya: ድርቂ ( dərḳi )
Turkish: kuraklık (tr)
Turkmen: guraklyk
Ukrainian: за́суха f ( zásuxa )
Urdu: سوکھا m ( sūkhā )
Uyghur: قۇرغاقچىلىق ( qurghaqchiliq )
Uzbek: qurgʻoqchilik (uz)
Vietnamese: hạn hán (vi)
Volapük: lesig (vo)
Võro: põud
Welsh: sychder (cy) m , sychdwr m
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Yakut: кураан ( kuraan )
ǃXóõ: ǁqáa