flash flood

See also: flashflood

English

Noun

flash flood (plural flash floods)

1. A sudden, rapid flood, usually of short duration and local impact.

Related terms

• flash flooding

Translations

sudden flood

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: ধল (dhôl)
• Bengali: ধল (dhol)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暴洪 (zh) (bàohóng)

• Dimasa: dibaola
• Dutch: stortvloed (nl) m
• French: crue éclair f
• Georgian: ნიაღვარი (niaɣvari)
• German: Sturzflut f
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• Irish: maidhm thuile f
• Japanese: 鉄砲水 (てっぽうみず, teppōmizu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: styrtflom m

• Portuguese: enchente relâmpago f
• Russian: внеза́пное наводне́ние n (vnezápnoje navodnénije)
• Spanish: crecida (es) f
• Thai: น้ำป่า (th) (náam-bpàa)
• Vietnamese: lũ quét
• Waray-Waray: daralwa