downpour

English

Tropical downpour

Etymology

From down- +‎ pour.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdaʊn.pɔː(ɹ)/

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Noun

downpour (plural downpours)

1. A heavy rain.

   Synonyms: cloudburst, rainstorm, (rare) pourdown

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

   • 1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

     I left Inverness on a Saturday afternoon in July in a steady downpour of rain.

Translations

heavy 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 dǎžd)
• 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
• Greek:

  Ancient: 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 jañbyr), 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
• Maori: 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:

  Roman: 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)

Verb

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

1. (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)
• Spanish: jarrear (es)

Anagrams

• pour down