catastrophe

Etymology
From, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1) Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
 * 2)  A disaster beyond expectations.
 * 3)  The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
 * 4)  A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
 * 1)  A disaster beyond expectations.
 * 2)  The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
 * 3)  A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
 * 1)  A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
 * 1)  A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: كَارِثَة, فَاجِعَة, مُصِيبَة, آفَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, ,
 * Belarusian: катастро́фа
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 災難, 災殃, 災害, 災禍
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: katastrofo
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: catástrofe
 * Georgian: კატასტროფა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: καταστροφή
 * Haitian Creole: katastwòf
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, , आफ़त,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: katastrófa
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:, eirleach, matalang, , turraing
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 大災害,, ,
 * Kazakh:, қирау, алапат
 * Khmer: មហន្តរាយ,, ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: катастрофа, ,
 * Lao: ພິບັດ, ໄພພິບັດ
 * Latin: calamitās
 * Latvian: katastrofa, nelaime
 * Lithuanian: katastrofa, nelaimė
 * Macedonian: катастро́фа
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, , , ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: katastrofe
 * Nynorsk: katastrofe
 * Ottoman Turkish: غول
 * Pashto:, , مصيبت
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: катастро́фа
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: katastrofa
 * Slovene: katastrofa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:, , , фоҷеа, фоҷиа, , офат
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: heläkçilik, ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, , تَباہی
 * Uyghur: پالاكەت, ھالاكەت, ئاپەت, بەختسىزلىك
 * Uzbek: katastrofa,, , , , , ,
 * Vietnamese:, tai họa lớn,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:


 * Arabic: نَكْبَة, فَاجِعَة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: კატასტროფა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: katastrofe
 * Nynorsk: katastrofe
 * Persian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: catastróf
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Hebrew: (1)
 * Hindi: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Urdu:, ,

Etymology
, itself a borrowing from.

Synonyms

 * (informal)