avalanche

Etymology
From, from (Savoy) , blend of  and standard , from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of  (compare Franco-Provençal (Dauphiné) , 🇨🇬), from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
 * 2) A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
 * 3)  A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
 * 1)  A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: асыԥса
 * Albanian:, , rungajë,
 * Arabic: تَيْهُور, اِنْهِيَار ثَلْجِيّ
 * Aragonese: lurte,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: ádene, ádiga
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: күскен, ҡар ишелмәһе, шыуышма, лайғы
 * Basque: elurrolde, elur jausi
 * Belarusian: лаві́на
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, sneskred
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: laviin
 * Faroese: skalvalop
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, nafreita
 * Georgian: ზვავი
 * German:, , Eislawine , Gletscherlawine
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: lavalas
 * Hindi: हिमस्खलन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: salju longsor
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᓗᐃᖅᑲᓇᖅ
 * Irish: maidhm shléibhe, maidhm shneachta
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:, 설붕(雪崩)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຫິມະຖະຫຼົ່ມ
 * Latvian: lavīna
 * Lithuanian: lavina
 * Luxembourgish: Lawin
 * Macedonian: лавина
 * Malay: salji runtuh
 * Malayalam: ഹിമപാതം
 * Maori: horonga, horonga huka, horohuka
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:, snøras, snøskred
 * Occitan: ,
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, awalansza
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: maoim-sneachda
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у́сов, ла̀вина, сњежна лавина
 * Roman:, làvina, snježna lavina
 * Sherpa:
 * Slovak: lavína
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: тарма, баҳман
 * Thai: หิมะถล่ม
 * Tibetan: གངས་རུག, གངས་རུད
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: gar topalaňy
 * Ukrainian: лави́на
 * Uyghur: قار كۆچۈش
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: tuyết lở
 * Welsh: eirlithrad


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: nafreita, laredo, entullada
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ھەرەس
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: одрон, свлечиште
 * Maori: horo, horowhenua
 * Norwegian: skred,
 * Persian: رانش زمین
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: alunecare de teren, ebulment
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у́сов, ла̀вина
 * Roman:, làvina
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: лавина
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To descend like an avalanche.
 * 2)  To come down upon; to overwhelm.
 * The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.
 * 1)  To propel downward like an avalanche.
 * 1)  To come down upon; to overwhelm.
 * The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.
 * 1)  To propel downward like an avalanche.
 * 1)  To propel downward like an avalanche.

Translations

 * Esperanto: lavangi
 * Finnish: vyöryä
 * Georgian: ჩაზვავება, ჩამოზვავება
 * Ido:
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish:, rasa ner

Etymology
(Savoy), blend of and standard, from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), alteration of  (compare (Dauphiné) 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from 🇨🇬.

Etymology
, from Savoyard.

Noun

 * 1)  large mass of snow sliding down a mountain side
 * 2)  sudden, great, or irresistible influx of anything
 * 1)  sudden, great, or irresistible influx of anything