English
Etymology
From snow + storm . Compare Saterland Frisian Sneestoarm , West Frisian sniestoarm , German Schneesturm , Dutch sneeuwstorm , Swedish snöstorm , Icelandic snjóstormur .
Pronunciation
Noun
snowstorm (plural snowstorms )
Bad weather involving blowing winds and snow , or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.
A snow globe .
1947 , Dornford Yates , The Berry Scene , Ward, Lock & Co., 273 :
As we made our way down, my eye was caught by a snowstorm —one of those little glass balls, with a baby cottage inside.
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Translations
bad weather involving blowing winds and snow
Albanian: stuhi dëbore
Bashkir: буран ( buran )
Catalan: nevada (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 暴風雪 / 暴风雪 (zh) ( bàofēngxuě ) , 暴风雪 (zh) ( bàofēngxuě ) , 大風雪 / 大风雪 ( dàfēngxuě ) , 大风雪 ( dàfēngxuě )
Czech: blizard (cs) m , sněhová bouře f , sněhová vichřice f , vánice (cs) f , metelice (cs) f
Danish: snestorm (da) c
Dutch: sneeuwstorm (nl) m
Faroese: kavaæl n
Finnish: myräkkä (fi) , lumimyrsky (fi) , pyry (fi)
French: tempête de neige (fr) f
Georgian: ქარბუქი ( karbuki )
German: Schneesturm (de) m
Greek: χιονοθύελλα (el) f ( chionothýella )
Ancient: νιφετός m ( niphetós )
Hungarian: hóvihar (hu) , hóförgeteg (hu)
Icelandic: snjóstormur (is) m , stórhríð f , kafaldsbylur (is) m
Italian: bufera di neve f
Japanese: 暴風雪 (ja) ( ぼうふうせつ, bōfūsetsu ) , 吹雪 (ja) ( ふぶき, fubuki )
Korean: 눈보라 (ko) ( nunbora )
Kurdish:
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Latgalian: viejputnis
Latin: nigor m , ningor m
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Latvian: putenis
Lithuanian: pūga f
Luxembourgish: Schnéistuerm m
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Navajo: chííl
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Norwegian: snøstorm (no)
Old English: hrīþ
Persian: بوران (fa) ( burân )
Polish: śnieżyca (pl) f , zamieć (pl) f , zawieja (pl) f
Portuguese: nevasca (pt) f ( Brazil ) , nevão m ( Portugal ) , tempestade de neve f (both)
Romanian: furtună de nea , furtună de zăpadă , viscol (ro) n
Russian: мете́ль (ru) f ( metélʹ ) , пурга́ (ru) f ( purgá ) , вью́га (ru) f ( vʹjúga ) , бура́н (ru) m ( burán ) , сне́жная бу́ря f ( snéžnaja búrja ) , снегова́я бу́ря f ( snegovája búrja ) , сне́жный вихрь m ( snéžnyj vixrʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мѐћава f
Roman: mèćava (sh) f
Slovak: snehová búrka f , fujavica f
Slovene: snežni vihar m
Spanish: nevada (es) f , nevasca f , tormenta de nieve f
Swedish: snöstorm (sv)
Thai: พายุหิมะ ( paa-yú-hì-má )
Tibetan: གངས་འུར ( gangs 'ur )
Turkish: tipi (tr) , kar fırtınası
Uyghur: شىۋىرغان ( shiwirghan )