thunder

Takođe pogledajte: thundër

Engleski

Etymology

From Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).

Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Holandski donder, Nemački Donner, Old Norse Þórr (Engleski Thor), Danski torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Iranski تندر‎ (tondar), Latinski tonō, detonō, Antički Grčki στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irski torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Dubleti of donner.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) MFA^(ključ): /ˈθʌndə/
• (General American) enPR: thŭn′dər, MFA^(ključ): /ˈθʌndɚ/

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• Rime: -ʌndə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: thun‧der

Noun

thunder (countable and uncountable, plural thunders)

1. The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

   Thunder is preceded by lightning.

2. A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.

   Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.

3. An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
   • Šablon:RQ:Prescott Peru

     The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.

4. (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
   • Šablon:RQ:Shakespeare King Lear
5. (figurative) The spotlight.

   Shortly after I announced my pregnancy, he stole my thunder with his news of landing his dream job.

Usage notes

• roll, clap, peal are some of the words used to count thunder e.g. A series of rolls/claps/peals of thunder were heard

Derived terms

• black thunder
• blood and thunder
• face like thunder
• steal someone's thunder
• thunder and lightning
• thunderation
• thunderbird
• thunderbolt
• thunderboomer
• thunderbox
• thunderclap
• thundercloud
• thunder cross
• thunderfish
• thunder god
• thunder god vine
• thunderhead
• thunderless
• thunder lizard
• thunder mug
• thunderous
• thunderpeal
• thunder pot
• thunder rod
• thundershower
• thunder sleet
• thunder snake
• thundersquall
• thunderstick
• thunderstone
• thunderstorm
• thunderstrike
• thunderstruck
• thunder thighs
• thunder tube
• thunder-wheel
• thundery

 

Translations

sound caused by lightning

• Abkhaz: adыd (adəd)
• Adyghe:
• Albanian: bubullimë (sq) f, mumrimë f
• Arabic: رَعْد‎ (ar) m (raʿd)

  Egyptian Arabic: رعد‎ m (raʿd)

  Moroccan Arabic: رعد‎ m (raʿd)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܪܥܡܐ‎ m (raʿmā)

• Armenian: որոտ (hy) (orot)
• Assamese: ঢেৰেকনি (dherekoni), ঢেৰেক (dherek)
• Asturian: troníu (ast) m, tronabríu (ast) m, tronada (ast) f, truenu (ast) m, renuberu (ast) m
• Atayal: matus bisuw
• Azerbaijani: göy gurultusu, ildırım (az)
• Balinese: grudug
• Belarusian: grom m (hrom)
• Bengali: বজ্রধ্বনি (bôjrôdhbni)
• Bikol Central: dalugdog (bcl), daguldol (bcl)
• Brunei Malay: guruh
• Bulgarian: grъm (bg) m (grǎm)
• Burmese: မိုးကြိုး (my) (mui:krui:)
• Catalan: tro (ca) m
• Cebuano: dalugdog
• Chamicuro: tswali
• Chechen: kъovkъa (qʼowqʼa)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏴᏓᏆᎶᏍᎬ (ayvdaqualosgv)
• Chichewa: bingu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雷 (leoi⁴), 雷聲／雷声, 雷声 (leoi⁴ sing¹), 雷鳴／雷鸣, 雷鸣 (leoi⁴ ming⁴)

  Hakka: 雷 (lùi), 雷公 (lùi-kûng)

  Mandarin: 雷 (zh) (léi), 雷聲／雷声 (zh), 雷声 (zh) (léishēng), 雷鳴／雷鸣 (zh), 雷鸣 (zh) (léimíng)

  Min Dong: 雷公 (lài-gŭng)

  Min Nan: 雷 (zh-min-nan) (lûi), 雷公 (zh-min-nan) (lûi-kong)

  Wu:

• Czech: hrom (cs) m, zahřmění n
• Dalmatian: tun m
• Danish: torden (da) c
• Dutch: donder (nl) m
• Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྐད ('brug skad)
• Erzya: purgine (purgine)
• Esperanto: tondro (eo)
• Estonian: kõu
• Even: agdi (agʒi)
• Evenki: agdы (agdi)
• Faroese: tora f
• Finnish: jyrinä (fi), jyrähdys (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: tonêrro m
• French: tonnerre (fr) m
• Friulian: ton, tonade
• Galician: trono (gl) m, tróo m, bruio m, orzán m, trouso m, trebón (gl) m
• Georgian: ქუხილი (kuxili), ჭექა-ქუხილი (č̣eka-kuxili)
• German: Donner (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍈𐍉 f (þeiƕō)
• Greek: βροντή (el) f (vrontí)
• Greenlandic: kalleq
• Haitian Creole: loray
• Hausa: tarnatsa
• Hebrew: רַעַם‎ (he) m (ra'am)
• Higaonon: lugung
• Hindi: गरज (hi) f (garaj), गड़गड़ाहट (hi) f (gaṛagṛāhaṭ), राद (hi) (rād), गर्जन (hi) m (garjan)
• Hungarian: mennydörgés (hu), égzengés (hu)
• Icelandic: þruma (is) f
• Ido: tondro (io)
• Indonesian: guntur (id), guruh (id)
• Interlingua: tonitro
• Irish: toirneach (ga) m
• Italian: tuono (it) m
• Japanese: 雷 (ja) (かみなり, kaminari), 雷鳴 (ja) (らいめい, raimei)
• Javanese: bledhèg, gludhug (jv)
• Kazakh: kүn kүrkіreu (kk) (kün kürkıreu), kүrkіreu (kürkıreu)
• Khmer: ផ្គរ (km) (pkɔɔ)
• Korean: 우레 (ure), 천둥 (ko) (cheondung)
• Kott: ajak
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: birûsk (ku)

• Kyrgyz: kүrkүrөө (kürküröö)
• Lao: ຟ້າຮ້ອງ (lo) (fā hǭng)
• Latgalian: pārkiuņs
• Latin: tonus m, tonitrus m, tonitruum n
• Latvian: pērkons m
• Lezgi: gurgum (gurgum)
• Limburgish: dónder (li) n
• Lithuanian: griaustinis
• Luxembourgish: Dimmer m, Donner m
• Macedonian: grom (mk) m (grom)
• Maguindanao: dalendeg
• Malagasy: ampy (mg)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: guruh, guntur
• Malayalam: ഇടി (ml) (iṭi)
• Maltese: ragħad m
• Manchu: ᠠᡴᠵᠠᠨ
• Mansaka: rugung
• Manx: taarnagh m
• Maore Comorian: guguma
• Maori: whaitiri
• Maranao: dalendeg, rogong
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari:

• Mon: ဓဂဵု
• Mongolian: aяnga (mn) (ajanga)
• Nanai: agdi
• Navajo: iiʼniʼ
• Ngarrindjeri: munti
• Northern Sami: baján
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: torden (no) m

  Nynorsk: tore f

• Nyunga: koondarnangor
• Occitan: tron (oc) m, tronada m
• Old English: þunor m
• Old High German: donar
• Old Norse: þórr m
• Oriya: ଗର୍ଜନ (or) (gôrjônô)
• Ossetian: ӕrvnӕrыn (ærvnæryn)
• Persian: تندر‎ (fa) (tondar), رعد‎ (fa) (ra'd)
• Plautdietsch: Donna
• Polish: grzmot (pl) m, grom (pl) m (dated, poetic)
• Portuguese: trovão (pt) m
• Quechua: q'aqya
• Rhine Franconian: Dunner
• Romagnol: tràun m
• Romanian: tunet (ro) n
• Romansch: tun m, tung m
• Russian: grom (ru) m (grom)
• Samoan: fai'titili, ta'alili
• Sanskrit: गर्जन (sa) n (garjana)
• Sardinian: tronu
• Scots: thunner
• Scottish Gaelic: tàirneanach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: grom m, grmljavina f

  Roman: grom (sh) m, grmljavina (sh) f

• Sicilian: tronu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: විදුලි කෙටීම (viduli keṭīma)
• Slovak: hrom (sk) m
• Slovene: grom (sl) m, grmenje n
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: hrimanje n

• Spanish: trueno (es) m
• Sundanese: guludug (su)
• Swahili: (nc 9/10) ^{(please verify)} radi (sw)
• Swedish: åska (sv) c, (åsk) smäll c, dunder (sv) c
• Tabasaran: gurgum (gurgum)
• Tagalog: kulog
• Tajik: tundar (tundar), raъd (tg) (raʾd)
• Tamil: இடி (ta) (iṭi)
• Taos: nąłàcit’ə́otuna
• Tausug: daugdug
• Telugu: ఉరుము (te) (urumu)
• Tetum: rai-tarutu
• Thai: ฟ้าร้อง (th)
• Tibetan: ལྡིར་སྒྲ (ldir sgra)
• Turkish: gök gürültüsü (tr), yıldırım (tr)
• Turkmen: ýyldyrym
• Tutelo: tuhangrua
• Tuvan: diңmirээškin (dïŋmïrääškïn)
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎓𐎚 (rʿt)
• Ukrainian: grіm m (hrim)
• Urdu: گرج‎ (garaj), گڑگڑاہٹ‎ (gaṛgaṛāhaṭ)
• Uzbek: momaqaldiroq (uz)
• Venetian: ton (vec) m
• Vietnamese: sấm (vi)
• Volapük: töt
• Walloon: tonire (wa) f, tonoere (wa) f
• Waray-Waray: dalugdog
• Welsh: taranau f pl, tyrfau m pl, trystau m pl
• West Flemish: dunder m
• West Frisian: tonger
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: ruɣung
• Westrobothnian:
• Winnebago: kʼoo
• Yámana: kalaša
• Zazaki: gumlerz (diq)
• Zhuang: byajraez

sound resembling thunder

• Armenian: որոտ (hy) (orot)
• Bulgarian: gъrmež (bg) m (gǎrmež)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轟鳴／轰鸣 (zh), 轰鸣 (zh) (hōngmíng)

• Czech: zahřmění n, hromová rána f, hřmění (cs) n
• Dutch: gedonder (nl) m
• Finnish: jyrinä (fi), jyrähtely (fi)
• Galician: balbordo m, trouso m
• German: Donnern (de) n
• Greek: κεραυνός (el) m (keravnós)
• Hungarian: dörgés (hu)
• Italian: rombo (it) m, schianto (it) m, boato (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 雷鳴 (ja) (らいめい, raimei)
• Polish: grzmot (pl) m
• Portuguese: trovoada (pt) f
• Rhine Franconian: Dunner
• Russian: grom (ru) m (grom), gróhot (ru) m (gróxot)
• Scottish Gaelic: tàirneanach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: tutanj m

  Roman: tutanj (sh) m

• Slovene: grmenje n
• Swedish: åskmuller (sv) n, muller (sv) n, åskdån n, dån (sv) n

deep, rumbling noise

• Bulgarian: grohot (bg) (grohot)
• Czech: hřmění (cs) n, dunění (cs) n
• Dutch: gerommel (nl) n
• Finnish: jyrinä (fi), jylinä (fi), pauhu
• Galician: estoiro m, estrondo m, estourea f, balbordo m, bruiamento m, abousamento m
• German: Donnern (de) n
• Hungarian: robaj (hu)
• Italian: fragore (it) m, frastuono (it) m
• Japanese: 轟音 (ja) (ごうおん, gōon)
• Kott: ajak
• Polish: grzmot (pl) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: estrondo (pt) m
• Rhine Franconian: Dunner
• Russian: rókot (ru) m (rókot)
• Scottish Gaelic: tàirneanach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: tutnjava f, tutnjavina f

  Roman: tutnjava (sh) f, tutnjavina f

• Slovene: grmenje n
• Spanish: estruendo (es) m, fragor (es) m
• Swedish: mullrande (sv) n, dån (sv) n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

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• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} رَعْد‎ (ar) m (raʿd)
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} kurun (br) f, ^{(please verify)} taran (br) m
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} tondro (eo)
• Guaraní: ^{(molim proverite)} sunu
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} gelegar (id), ^{(molim proverite)} suara petir , ^{(molim proverite)} suara halilintar
• Interlingua: ^{(molim proverite)} tonitro
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} birûsk (ku) f

• Rwanda-Rundi: ^{(molim proverite)} inkuba
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ఉరుము (te) (urumu)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} สายฟ้า (th)
• Tupinambá: ^{(molim proverite)} tupã sununga

See also

• lightning

Descendants

• Tagalog: tanda
• Alemannic German: Thönder

Verb

thunder

1. (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

   It thundered continuously.

2. (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.

   The train thundered along the tracks.

3. (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
   • 1983, David Sylvian (lyrics), Ryuichi Sakamoto (music), “Forbidden Colours”, in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, performed by David Sylvian:

4. (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.

   "Get back to work at once!", he thundered.

5. To produce something with incredible power.
   • 2011 januar 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC‎^[1]:

Conjugation

Conjugation of thunder

infinitive	(to) thunder
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	thunder	thundered
2nd person singular	thunder, thunderest*
3rd person singular	thunders, thundereth*
plural	thunder
subjunctive	thunder
imperative	thunder	—
participles	thundering	thundered
* Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

• (to say something with a loud, threatening voice): thunderer

Translations

to make a noise like thunder

• Arabic: رَعَدَ‎ (ar) (raʿada)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܪܥܡ‎ (rəʿem)

• Atayal: mu’ bicyu
• Breton: ^{(molim proverite)} ober kurun , ^{(molim proverite)} taranal, ^{(molim proverite)} taraniñ
• Bulgarian: gъrmя (bg) (gǎrmja)
• Catalan: tronar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏴᏓᏆᎶᎠ (ayvdaqualoa)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 行雷 (haang⁴ leoi⁴)

  Hakka: 打雷公 (tá-lùi-kûng)

  Mandarin: 打雷 (zh) (dǎléi)

  Min Nan: 霆雷公 (tân-lûi-kong)

• Czech: hřmít (cs)
• Dalmatian: tonur
• Dutch: donderen (nl)
• Esperanto: tondri
• Finnish: jyristä (fi), jyrähdellä (fi), jyrähtää, pauhata (fi)
• French: tonner (fr)
• Friulian: tonâ
• Galician: toar (gl)
• German: donnern (de)

  Alemannic German: tschättere

• Hebrew: רעם‎ (he) (ra'am)
• Hindi: राद (hi) (rād), गरजना (hi) (garajnā)
• Icelandic: þrymja
• Ido: tondrar (io)
• Italian: tuonare (it)
• Japanese: (it thunders) 雷が鳴る (かみなりがなる, kaminari ga naru), (to make a noise like thunder) 轟音を立てる (gōon o tateru)
• Korean: 천둥이 울리다 (cheondung'i ullida)
• Latin: tono
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Luxembourgish: donneren
• Manchu: ᠠᡴᠵᠠᠮᠪᡳ
• Norwegian: tordne
• Occitan: tronar (oc)
• Polish: grzmieć (pl), zagrzmieć
• Portuguese: trovoar (pt), trovejar (pt)
• Romanian: tuna (ro)
• Romansch: tunar, tuner
• Russian: gremétь (ru) impf (gremétʹ), grohotátь (ru) impf (groxotátʹ), gromыhátь (ru) impf (gromyxátʹ)
• Sanskrit: स्तनति (stanati)
• Sardinian: tronai, tronare
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: gr̀meti impf

  Roman: gr̀meti (sh) impf

• Slovene: grmeti
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: grimaś impf

  Upper Sorbian: hrimać

• Spanish: tronar (es)
• Swedish: dundra (sv), dåna (sv), åska (sv)
• Thai: สายฟ้าฟาด (săaifáa fâat)
• Tibetan: འབྲུག་སྐད་རྒྱག ('brug skad rgyag)
• Venetian: tonàre
• Welsh: taranu (cy)
• West Frisian: daverje
• Westrobothnian:

to talk with a loud, threatening voice

• Breton: taranal, taraniñ
• Bulgarian: govorя grъmoglasno (govorja grǎmoglasno)
• Czech: hřmít (cs), hromovat
• Dutch: overdonderen (nl)
• Finnish: jyristä (fi), pauhata (fi)
• French: tonitruer (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 怒鳴る (どなる, donaru)
• Korean: 고함치다 (gohamchida)
• Polish: gromić
• Portuguese: trovejar (pt)
• Romanian: tuna (ro)

transitive: say something with a loud, threatening voice

• Finnish: jyristä (fi)
• French: tonitruer (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 怒鳴る (どなる, donaru)
• Romanian: tuna (ro)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(molim proverite)} tondri
• German: ^{(please verify)} donnern (de)
• Guaraní: ^{(molim proverite)} sunu
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} gelegar (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(molim proverite)} tonar
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: ^{(molim proverite)} tonare
• Norwegian: ^{(molim proverite)} tordne
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ฟ้าผ่า (th) (fáapàa)
• Tupinambá: ^{(molim proverite)} sunung

See also

• thundering

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Middle English

Noun

thunder

1. Alternative form of thonder