English Etymology From snow storm 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. Synonyms Derived terms 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
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}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
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 )