thunder

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
2. (countable, uncountable) A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
3. (countable, uncountable) An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
5. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of thunder word.

Verb

1. (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
3. (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
4. (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
5. To produce something with incredible power.

Conceptes

tro

🌩️

tronar

🌩️

roncar

rugir

bruelar

vociferar

baladrejar

bramular

dir a crits

cridar

Sinònims

roar

rumble

boom

💥

sound

🔉

lightning

thunderbolt

rattle

thundering

clatter

thunderclap

roll

resound

hell dust

peal

thunderstorm

skag

scream

😱

howl

roaring

nose drops

smack

ring out

scag

shout

echo

yell

bellow

crash

heard

rumbling

reverberate

bluster

make noise

explode

big H

trumpet

🎺

beat

snarl

knock

iron

buzz

shriek

hammer

🔨

mine

fulminate

noise

bawl

noisy

earful

break out

Traduccions

tonnerre

🌩️

tonner

🌩️

trueno

🌩️

Donner

🌩️

tuono

🌩️

donnern

🌩️

donder

🌩️

tuonare

🌩️

tronar

🌩️

trovão

🌩️

trovejar

🌩️

donderen

🌩️

βροντή

bulderen

🌩️

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈθʌndə/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: thunder

Heretat de anglès antic: þunor

Cognat amb frisó occidental: tonger

Cognat amb neerlandès: donder

Cognat amb alemany: Donner

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: Þórr

Cognat amb anglès: Thor

Cognat amb danès: torden

Cognat amb noruec nynorsk: tore

Cognat amb persa: تندر

Cognat amb llatí: tonō

Cognat amb grec antic: στένω

Cognat amb irlandès: torann

Cognat amb gal·lès: taran

In summary

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, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian تندر (tondar), Latin tonō, detonō, Ancient Greek στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner, Thunor, and Thor.