drought

Senso (Inglese)

1. (countable, uncountable) A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
2. (broadly, countable, informal, uncountable) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) dryness, aridness, dry heat

Concetti

siccità

secco

secchezza

asciugaggine

aridità

arsura

disidratazione

Opposto di

winning streak

sinonimi

dryness

dry weather

drouth

famine

aridity

thirst

dry

scarcity

dry spell

aridness

dearth

xerotes

shortage

water shortage

dry season

drought disaster

crop failure

dry damage

rain-shortage

rainlessness

want of rain

want of water

year of drought

dehydration

lack of rainfall

heat

Traduzioni

sécheresse

sequía

Dürre

seca

ξηρασία

Trockenheit

droogte

disette

sequera

جفاف

kuraklık

sècheresse

famine

siccitas

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/dɹaʊt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: droghte

Ereditato da inglese antico: drūgaþ

Affine olandese: droogte

Affine basso tedesco: Dröögde

In summary

From Middle English droghte, drouȝte, druhhþe, druȝþe, drouȝth, from Old English drūgaþ. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde. By surface analysis, dry + -t (abstract nominal suffix).