Tropical downpour
From down- + pour.
downpour (plural downpours)
- A heavy rain.
- Synonyms: cloudburst, rainstorm, (rare) pourdown
They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.
1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:I left Inverness on a Saturday afternoon in July in a steady downpour of rain.
heavy rain
- Arabic: وَابِل m (wābil), مَطَر غَزِير m (maṭar ḡazīr), شُؤْبُوب m (šuʔbūb), هُطُول (huṭūl)
- Armenian: տարափ (hy) (tarapʻ)
- Azerbaijani: leysan (az)
- Belarusian: лі́вень m (lívjenʹ), уле́ва f (uljéva), зале́ва f (zaljéva), дажджы́шча m (daždžýšča)
- Bulgarian: поро́й (bg) m (porój), поро́ен дъжд m (poróen dǎžd)
- Catalan: xàfec (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大雨 (zh) (dàyǔ), 傾盆大雨／倾盆大雨 (zh) (qīngpéndàyǔ), 瓢潑大雨／瓢泼大雨 (zh) (piáopōdàyǔ)
- Czech: liják (cs) m
- Danish: regnskyl n, øsregn c, styrtregn c
- Dutch: wolkbreuk (nl) f
- Esperanto: ŝaŭro
- Finnish: kaatosade (fi), rankkasade (fi)
- French: trombe (fr) f, averse (fr) f
- Galician: chuvasco (gl) m, chuvascada (gl) f, ballón (gl) m, trebón (gl) m, cairo (gl) m, corisco (gl) m
- German: Regenguss (de) m, Platzregen (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: ὄμβρος m (ómbros)
- Hungarian: zivatar (hu), felhőszakadás (hu), zápor (hu)
- Ido: pluvego (io)
- Indonesian: hujan lebat (id)
- Irish: duartan m
- Italian: acquazzone (it) m, diluvio (it) m, temporale (it) m, rovescio (it) m, nubifragio (it) m
- Japanese: 大雨 (ja) (おおあめ, ōame), 土砂降り (ja) (どしゃぶり, doshaburi)
- Kazakh: нөсер жаңбыр (nöser jañbyr), нөсер (nöser)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 폭우(暴雨) (ko) (pogu), 큰 비 (keun bi), 호우(豪雨) (ko) (hou)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: по́рој m (póroj), по́роен дожд m (póroen dožd), по́ројник m (pórojnik) (literary)
- Malay: hujan lebat
- Maori: patapataiāwhā
- Norman: dêtchèrque f, dêcliaitchie f
- Norn: ålup n
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: regnskyll (no) n, øsregn n
- Nynorsk: styrtregn n, pøsregn n
- Occitan: marcejada (oc) f
- Old Prussian: suge
- Polish: ulewa (pl) f
- Portuguese: temporal (pt) m, toró (pt) m, chuvada, aguaceiro (pt)
- Romanian: aversă (ro) f, ploaie torențială f
- Russian: ли́вень (ru) m (lívenʹ), проливно́й дождь m (prolivnój doždʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: jaka kiša f, pljusak (sh) m
- Slovak: lejak m
- Slovene: ploha f, naliv m
- Spanish: chaparrón (es) m, aguacero (es), chubasco (es) m, (Venezuela) palo de agua (es)
- Swedish: ösregn (sv) n
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: sağanak (tr)
- Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎌𐎎 (gšm)
- Ukrainian: зли́ва (uk) f (zlýva), ли́вень (uk) m (lývenʹ), зали́ва f (zalýva), про́ливень m (prólyvenʹ), хлю́ща f (xljúšča)
- Uzbek: jala (uz)
- Vietnamese: mưa rào (vi)
- Welsh: curlaw m, tywalltiad m
- Yiddish: שלאַקסרעגן m (shlaksregn)
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downpour (third-person singular simple present downpours, present participle downpouring, simple past and past participle downpoured)
- (intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.
2002, Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211:It started to downpour, so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.
