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thunder
English
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)tenh?- (“to thunder”).
Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian ????? (tondar), Latin ton?, deton?, Ancient Greek ????? (stén?), ??????? (stenáz?), ?????? (stónos), ??????? (Stént?r), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???nd?/
- (General American) enPR: th?n?d?r, IPA(key): /???nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
- Hyphenation: thun?der
Noun
thunder (countable and uncountable, plural thunders)
- The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
- A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- 1847, William H. Prescott, A History of the Conquest of Peru
- The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
- 1847, William H. Prescott, A History of the Conquest of Peru
- (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- (figuratively) The spotlight.
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
Translations
See also
- lightning
Descendants
- Tagalog: tanda
Verb
thunder (third-person singular simple present thunders, present participle thundering, simple past and past participle thundered)
- To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.
- (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
- (intransitive) To talk with a loud, threatening voice.
- (transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
- To produce something with incredible power
Conjugation
Derived terms
- (to say something with a loud, threatening voice): thunderer
Translations
See also
- thundering
Middle English
Noun
thunder
- Alternative form of thonder
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typhoon
English
Etymology
Its ultimate origin is generally thought to be Sinitic ????? ("big wind", Mandarin dàf?ng, Cantonese daai6 fung1).
It entered English as early as 1588, perhaps via Portuguese tufão (attested since at least 1560) from Arabic ???????? (??f?n) (compare Persian ?????? (tufân), Hindi ?????? (t?f?n)).
Within English, its form was influenced by Ancient Greek ????? (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”). (Some sources suggest the term originated in Greek and travelled via Arabic to Chinese before making its way back to Europe, but this is implausible.)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ta??fu?n/
- (General American) enPR: t?fo?on?, IPA(key): /ta??fun/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Noun
typhoon (plural typhoons)
- A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane, which results in wind speeds of 64 knots (118 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia/Australia.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Russian: ??????? (tajfún)
- ? Kazakh: ?????? (tayfwn)
- ? Turkish: tayfun
Translations
Verb
typhoon (third-person singular simple present typhoons, present participle typhooning, simple past and past participle typhooned)
- (intransitive) To swirl like a hurricane.
See also
- cyclone
- hurricane
- tornado
References
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