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a tropical downpour From down- pour
Compare typologically Czech liják ulewa naliv ли́вень ( lívenʹ ) (akin to лить ( litʹ ) ).
downpour (plural downpours
A heavy fall of rain .
Synonyms: cloudburst ( UK, dialectal ) plash ( rare ) pourdown rainstorm They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.
1951 Railway Magazine , page 14 :I left Inverness on a Saturday afternoon in July in a steady downpour of rain.
heavy fall of rain
Arabic: وَابِل m ( wābil ) , مَطَر غَزِير m ( maṭar ḡazīr ) , شُؤْبُوب m ( šuʔbūb ) , هُطُول ( huṭūl )
Armenian: տարափ (hy) ( tarapʻ )
Azerbaijani: leysan (az)
Belarusian: лі́вень m ( lívjenʹ ) , уле́ва f ( uljéva ) , зале́ва f ( zaljéva ) , дажджы́шча m ( daždžýšča )
Bulgarian: поро́й (bg) m ( porój ) , поро́ен дъжд m ( poróen dăžd )
Catalan: xàfec (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大雨 (zh) ( dàyǔ ) , 傾盆大雨 / 倾盆大雨 (zh) ( qīngpéndàyǔ ) , 瓢潑大雨 / 瓢泼大雨 (zh) ( piáopōdàyǔ )
Czech: liják (cs) m
Danish: regnskyl n øsregn c styrtregn c
Dutch: wolkbreuk (nl) f
Esperanto: ŝaŭro
Finnish: kaatosade (fi) , rankkasade (fi)
French: trombe (fr) f averse (fr) f
Galician: chuvasco (gl) m chuvascada (gl) f ballón (gl) m trebón (gl) m cairo (gl) m corisco (gl) m
German: Regenguss (de) m Platzregen (de) m Wolkenbruch (de) m
Greek: νεροποντή (el) ( neropontí )
Ancient Greek: ὄμβρος m ( ómbros )
Hungarian: zivatar (hu) , felhőszakadás (hu) , zápor (hu)
Ido: pluvego (io)
Indonesian: hujan lebat (id)
Irish: duartan m
Italian: acquazzone (it) m diluvio (it) m temporale (it) m rovescio (it) m nubifragio (it) m
Japanese: 大雨 (ja) ( おおあめ, ōame ) , 土砂降り (ja) ( どしゃぶり, doshaburi )
Kazakh: нөсер жаңбыр ( nöser jaŋbır ) , нөсер ( nöser )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 폭우(暴雨) (ko) ( pogu ) , 큰 비 ( keun bi ) , 호우(豪雨) (ko) ( hou )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: по́рој m ( póroj ) , по́роен дожд m ( póroen dožd ) , по́ројник m ( pórojnik ) ( literary )
Malay: hujan lebat
Māori: patapataiāwhā
Norman: dêtchèrque f dêcliaitchie f
Norn: ålup n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: regnskyll (no) n øsregn n
Nynorsk: styrtregn n pøsregn n
Occitan: marcejada (oc) f
Old Prussian: suge
Polish: ulewa (pl) f
Portuguese: temporal (pt) m toró (pt) m chuvada aguaceiro (pt)
Romanian: aversă (ro) f ploaie torențială f
Russian: ли́вень (ru) m ( lívenʹ ) , проливно́й дождь m ( prolivnój doždʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: jaka kiša f pljusak (sh) m
Slovak: lejak m
Slovene: ploha f naliv m
Spanish: chaparrón (es) m aguacero (es) , chubasco (es) m ( Venezuela ) palo de agua (es) , jarreo (es) m
Swedish: ösregn (sv) n
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: sağanak (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎌𐎎 ( gšm )
Ukrainian: зли́ва (uk) f ( zlýva ) , ли́вень (uk) m ( lývenʹ ) , зали́ва f ( zalýva ) , про́ливень m ( prólyvenʹ ) , хлю́ща f ( xljúšča )
Uzbek: jala (uz)
Vietnamese: mưa rào (vi)
Welsh: curlaw m tywalltiad m
Yiddish: שלאַקסרעגן m ( shlaksregn )
downpour (third-person singular simple present downpours present participle downpouring simple past and past participle downpoured
( intransitive ) pour down; rain heavily.
1914 Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados :Bank-notes fluttered down and lay about in all directions, relays of sovereigns rolled away like so much dross, bonds and scrip for thousands and tens of thousands clogged the downpouring stream of jewellery and unset gems.
2002 Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211 :It started to downpour , so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.
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