downpour

English

Tropical downpour

Etymology

down- +‎ pour

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /daʊn.pɔː(ɹ)/

Noun

downpour (plural downpours)

a heavy rain
They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.

Synonyms

Related terms

rain cats and dogs

Translations

heavy rain

Arabic: وَابِل‎ m (wābil), مَطَر غَزِير‎ m (maṭar ḡazīr), شُؤْبُوب‎ m (šuʾbūb)
Armenian: տարափ (hy) (tarapʿ)
Bulgarian: порой (bg) m (poroj)
Catalan: xàfec (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大雨 (zh) (dàyǔ), 傾盆大雨 (zh), 倾盆大雨 (zh) (qīngpéndàyǔ)
Czech: liják m
Dutch: wolkbreuk (nl) f
Esperanto: ŝaŭro
Finnish: kaatosade (fi), rankkasade (fi)
French: trombe (fr), averse (fr) f
Galician: ballón (gl) m
German: Regenguss (de) m
Greek:
Ancient Greek: ὄμβρος m (ómbros)
Hungarian: zivatar (hu), felhőszakadás (hu), zápor (hu)
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)

Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Malay: hujan lebat
Maori: patapataiāwhā
Norman: dêtchèrque f, dêcliaitchie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: regnskyll n
Occitan: marcejada (oc) f
Old Prussian: aglā
Polish: ulewa (pl) f
Portuguese: temporal (pt) m, toró (pt) m
Romanian: aversă (ro) f, ploaie torențială f
Russian: ли́вень (ru) m (lívenʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: jaka kiša f, pljusak (sh) m
Spanish: chaparrón (es) m, aguacero (es)
Swedish: ösregn (sv) n
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: sağanak (tr), sağnak (tr)
Ukrainian: злива (uk) f (zlýva)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: curlaw m, tywalltiad m

Verb

downpour (third-person singular simple present downpours, present participle downpouring, simple past and past participle downpoured)

(intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.
- 2002, Patricia Koretchuk, 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.

Derived terms

downpouring

Translations

rain heavily

French: pleuvoir à verse (fr)

Italian: diluviare (it)

Anagrams

pour down

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