Meaning of word thunder

• Abkhaz: aдыд (adəd)
• Adyghe: шыблэ (šəble)
• Albanian: bubullimë (sq) f, mumrimë f
• Arabic: رَعْد‎ (ar) m (raʕd)

  Egyptian Arabic: رعد‎ m (raʿd)

  Hijazi Arabic: رعد‎ m (raʿad, 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: гром m (hrom), грымоты pl (hrymóty)
• Bengali: বজ্রধ্বনি (bojrodhboni)
• Bikol Central: dalugdog (bcl), daguldol (bcl)
• Brunei Malay: guruh
• Bulgarian: гръм (bg) m (grǎm)
• Burmese: မိုးကြိုး (my) (mui:krui:)
• Catalan: tro (ca) m
• Cebuano: dalugdog
• Chamicuro: tswali
• Chechen: къовкъа (qʼowqʼa)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏴᏓᏆᎶᏍᎬ (ayvdaqualosgv)
• Chichewa: bingu
• Chinese:

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

  Hakka: 雷 (lùi), 雷公 (lùi-kûng)

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

• Chuvash: аслати (aslat̬i)
• Czech: hrom (cs) m, zahřmění n
• Dalmatian: tun m
• Danish: torden (da) c
• Dutch: donder (nl) m
• Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྐད (‘brug skad)
• Erzya: пурьгине (puŕgińe)
• Esperanto: tondro (eo)
• Estonian: kõu
• Even: агди (agʒi)
• Evenki: агды (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
• Guaraní: sunu
• 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)
• Ingrian: ukko
• Interlingua: tonitro
• Iranun: dalendeg
• 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: күн күркіреу (kk) (kün kürkıreu), күркіреу (kürkıreu)
• Khmer: ផ្គរ (km) (pkɔɔ)
• Komi-Zyrian: гым (gym)
• Korean: 우레 (ure), 천둥 (ko) (cheondung)
• Kott: ajak
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: birûsk (ku)

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

  Eastern Mari: кӱдырчӧ (küdyrčö)

  Western Mari: хӹдӹртӹш (hÿdÿrtÿš)

• Mon: ဓဂဵု
• Mongolian: аянга (mn) (ajanga)
• Nanai: агди
• Navajo: iiʼniʼ
• Ngarrindjeri: munti
• Northern Sami: baján
• Northern Thai: ᨼ᩶ᩣᩁᩬ᩶ᨦ
• 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)
• Oromo: bakakkaa
• Ossetian: ӕрвнӕрын (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: гром (ru) m (grom)
• Rusyn: грум m (hrum)
• Samoan: fai’titili, ta’alili
• Sanskrit: गर्जन (sa) n (garjana)
• Sardinian: tronu
• Scots: thunner
• Scottish Gaelic: tàirneanach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гром m, грмљавина f

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

• Shan: ၽႃႉလင် (phâ̰a lǎng)
• Sicilian: tronu (scn) m
• Sidamo: banqo
• Sinhalese: විදුලි කෙටීම (widuli keṭīma)
• Slovak: hrom (sk) m
• Slovene: grom (sl) m, grmenje n
• Somali: onkod (so)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: hrimanje n

• Southern Altai: кӱркӱреш (kürküreš)
• 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: гугрум (gugrum)
• Tagalog: kulog
• Tai Dam: ꪡ꫁ꪱꪵꪠ꫁ (ꞌphạ phẻ)
• Tajik: тундар (tundar), раъд (tg) (raʾd)
• Tamil: இடி (ta) (iṭi)
• Taos: nąłàcit’ə́otuna
• Tausug: daugdug
• Telugu: ఉరుము (te) (urumu)
• Tetum: rai-tarutu
• Thai: ฟ้าร้อง (th) (fáa-rɔ́ɔng)
• Tibetan: ལྡིར་སྒྲ (ldir sgra)
• Turkish: gök gürültüsü (tr), yıldırım (tr)
• Turkmen: ýyldyrym
• Tutelo: tuhangrua
• Tuvan: диңмирээшкин (diñmireeşkin)
• Udmurt: гудыри (gudyri)
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎓𐎚 (rʿt)
• Ukrainian: грім m (hrim)
• Urdu: گرج‎ f (garaj), گڑگڑاہٹ‎ f (gaṛgaṛāhaṭ), رعد‎ m (raʿd)
• 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 c
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: ruɣung
• Winnebago: kʼoo
• Yakut: этиҥ (etiñ)
• Yámana: kalaša
• Zazaki: gumlerz
• Zhuang: byajraez

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

  Mandarin: 轟鳴／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
• Japanese: 雷鳴 (ja) (らいめい, raimei)
• Polish: grzmot (pl) m
• Portuguese: trovoada (pt) f
• Rhine Franconian: Dunner
• Russian: гром (ru) m (grom), гро́хот (ru) m (gróxot)
• Scottish Gaelic: tàirneanach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тутањ m

  Roman: tutanj (sh) m

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

• Bulgarian: грохот (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)
• Irish: tormán m
• Italian: fragore (it) m, frastuono (it) m
• Japanese: 轟音 (ja) (ごうおん, gōon)
• Kott: ajak
• Polish: grzmot (pl) m
• Portuguese: estrondo (pt) m
• Rhine Franconian: Dunner
• Russian: ро́кот (ru) m (rókot)
• Scottish Gaelic: tàirneanach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тутњава f, тутњавина f

  Roman: tutnjava (sh) f, tutnjavina f

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

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} رَعْد‎ (ar) m (raʕd)
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} kurun (br) f, ^{(please verify)} taran (br) m
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} tondro (eo)
• Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} sunu
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} gelegar (id), ^{(please verify)} suara petir , ^{(please verify)} suara halilintar
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} tonitro
• Kurdish:

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

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

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

  Classical Syriac: ܪܥܡ‎ (rəʿem)

• Atayal: mu’ bicyu
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} ober kurun , ^{(please verify)} taranal, ^{(please verify)} taraniñ
• Bulgarian: гърмя (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 (fi), 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
• Luxembourgish: donneren
• Manchu: ᠠᡴᠵᠠᠮᠪᡳ (akjambi)
• Norwegian: tordne
• Occitan: tronar (oc)
• Polish: grzmieć (pl), zagrzmieć
• Portuguese: trovoar (pt), trovejar (pt)
• Romanian: tuna (ro)
• Romansch: tunar, tuner
• Russian: греме́ть (ru) impf (gremétʹ), грохота́ть (ru) impf (groxotátʹ), громыха́ть (ru) impf (gromyxátʹ)
• Sanskrit: स्तनति (stanati)
• Sardinian: tronai, tronare
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гр̀мети 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

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} tondri
• German: ^{(please verify)} donnern (de)
• Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} sunu
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} gelegar (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} tonar
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} tonare
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} tordne
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ฟ้าผ่า (th) (fáapàa)
• Tupinambá: ^{(please verify)} sunung

Recent Examples on the Web

This pattern further dampens higher frequencies to create a deeper, rumbling sound that mimics distant thunder, a waterfall or the inside of a plane cabin while in flight.


—Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023




Inis Meáin, Ireland The pleasures of Inis Meáin are simple: a walk along the coast to the thunder of Atlantic swells, a tableau of fissured limestone that glimmers in the mist, and a mile-and-a-half cliff walk with the Cliffs of Moher as your backdrop.


—Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023




In his Winter 2020 show, floodwaters rose over the runway as starlings murmurated on a screen overhead, braving fire, thunder, and crashing waves.


—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023




The thunder of the engine grew louder and louder and then about 60 seconds after the takeoff began to diminish as the size of the flame grew fainter in the distant sky.


—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023




Pierce is a bruising back—perhaps best evidenced by his demolishing of Dallas Cowboys defensive back Malik Hooker last season—and could serve as the thunder to Robinson’s lightning.


—Josh Criswell, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023




This is likely the last AMG wagon ever to run on petrol alone–and its big, bad, burly twin-turbo V-8 thunder will be dearly missed.


—Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023




The quiet huff of snow and wind is broken by the distant thunder of avalanche bombs, and the beep and scrape of snowplows.


—Heather Hansman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023




Some thunder is also possible.


—Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2023

Heavier showers may include snow, hail, and occasionally thunder.


—oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2023




The Phillies scored in five of the first seven at-bats to out-thunder the Padres, who know must face ace Zack Wheeler.


—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022




What caused a pinnacle of the glacier to break off and thunder down the slope at a speed estimated by experts at nearly 200 mph, wasn’t immediately known.


—Frances D’emilio, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2022




What caused a pinnacle of the glacier to break off and thunder down the slope at a speed estimated by experts at some 300 kph (nearly 200 mph), wasn’t immediately known.


—al, 4 July 2022




What caused a pinnacle of the glacier to break off and thunder down the slope at a speed estimated by experts at some 300 kph (nearly 200 mph), wasn’t immediately known.


—Frances D’emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022




It’s not often that Southcentral Alaska residents wake to thunder in the middle of the night.


—Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2022




Florida continued to thunder away, scoring three in the fifth for a 7-1 lead.


—oregonlive, 2 June 2022




Still, Starks, who works as a hunting guide seasonally and on a ranch the rest of the year, has never seen anything like 150,000 people yelling and screaming as the horses thunder down the stretch of the most exciting two minutes in sports.


—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022


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