lightning

Etymology
From. .

Noun

 * 1) A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
 * 2) A discharge of this kind.
 * 3)  Anything that moves very fast.
 * 1) A discharge of this kind.
 * 2)  Anything that moves very fast.
 * 1) A discharge of this kind.
 * 2)  Anything that moves very fast.
 * 1)  Anything that moves very fast.
 * 1)  Anything that moves very fast.
 * 1)  Anything that moves very fast.
 * 1)  Anything that moves very fast.
 * 1)  Anything that moves very fast.

Usage notes

 * ,, are some of the words used to count lightning.

Translations

 * 'Are'are: 'aiwanawana
 * Abkhaz: афы
 * Acehnese: kilat
 * Adyghe: пкӏыкӏэ, пчыкӏэ
 * Afrikaans: weerligstraal
 * Aguaruna: čahip
 * Ainu: イメル
 * Akkadian: 𒉏𒄈
 * Aklanon: kidlat
 * Albanian:, vetëtim
 * Amharic: መብረቅ
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: برق
 * Hijazi Arabic: بَرْق
 * South Levantine Arabic: برق
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܸܪܩܵܐ
 * Classical Syriac: ܒܪܩܐ
 * Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: בַּרְקָא
 * Archi: парыла
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian: կայծակն
 * Aromanian: sfulgu, sfuldzir
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: пири
 * Aymara: illapa
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Baluchi: بیر, گروک
 * Bashkir: йәшен
 * Basque: tximistargi
 * Bau Bidayuh: kuning
 * Belarusian: мала́нка, бліскаві́ца, блі́скаўка
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bikol Central:, linti
 * Brunei Malay: kilat
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: сакилгаан
 * Caddo: kǝhaudíːn-unǝ
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: kilat
 * Ch'orti': hihƥ
 * Chamicuro: yaple'ti
 * Chechen: стелахаьштиг
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎾᎦᎵᏍᎩ
 * Cheyenne: évóˀhoˀȧseˀha
 * Chichewa: mphezi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 閃電
 * Dungan: дянгуон
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chukchi: йынӄэргын, йынӄэргат
 * Chuvash: ҫиҫӗм
 * Coptic: ⲉⲃⲣⲏϭⲉ
 * Corsican: saetta
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: limp
 * Danish:, lynglimt
 * Dargwa: лямцӀ
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Dzongkha: གློག་
 * Eastern Arrernte: alharrkentye
 * Egyptian:
 * Erzya: ёндол
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: välk
 * Evenki: агды
 * Extremaduran: rayu
 * Farefare: sa-yãka, yãka
 * Faroese: snarljós
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: saete, lamp, sfulmin, tarlup
 * Galician: ,
 * Ge'ez: መብረቅ
 * Georgian: ელვა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌹
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀστραπή, ἀστεροπή
 * Guaraní: aratiri
 * Gujarati: વીજ, વિદ્યુત, તડિત
 * Hawaiian: uila
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: kilat
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ibanag: kilat
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: kimat
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Ingrian: valkia, tuli
 * Interlingua: fulmine, fulgure
 * Inuktitut:
 * Iranun: kilat
 * Irish:
 * Istriot: foûlmini
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Javanese:, geledek
 * Kala Lagaw Ya: pœnipan
 * Kalasha: indóčik
 * Kannada:
 * Kansa: galéleze
 * Kapampangan: kildap
 * Kaurna: karntu
 * Kazakh: нажағай, найзағай,
 * Khmer:, ,
 * Kikuyu: rũheni
 * Klallam: ƛ̕əmƛ̕əmcínəŋ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بروسکە, تریشقە
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kusaal: sa-ian'asʋg
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:, ຟ້າເຫລື້ອມ, ວິທະຍຸ, ວິຊຽນ
 * Latgalian: zibsnis
 * Latin: fulgur, fulmen
 * Latvian:
 * Lezgi: цӏайлапан
 * Limburgish: blitsj
 * Lingala: nkáké
 * Lisu: ꓟꓬꓱꓼ ꓐꓬꓱꓼ, ꓟꓶꓽ ꓐꓬꓱꓼ, ꓟꓰꓼ ꓜꓲꓼ
 * Lithuanian: žaibas
 * Lokono: belebeliru
 * Lombard: saètta,, sumelech
 * Luxembourgish: Blëtz
 * Macedonian:, молскавица, секавица
 * Maguindanao: kilat
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: മിന്നല്‍
 * Maltese: sajjetta, beraq
 * Manchu: ᡨ᠋ᠠᠯᡴᡳᠶᠠᠨ
 * Manx: çhenney
 * Maore Comorian: peni
 * Maori: uira
 * Maranao: kilat
 * Mingrelian: ტყვაცი
 * Mohawk: tewennineˀkarahwanyonˀs
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Montana Salish: ʔesuˀwétʃiʔ
 * Moore: sa-yãgre
 * Nahuatl: tlapetlānilli, tlapetlantli
 * Navajo: atsiniltłʼish
 * Nepali: चट्याङ
 * Norman: êpart,  écllai,  écllaer,  epar
 * Norwegian:, lynglimt, blink
 * Bokmål:, lynglimt
 * Nynorsk: lyn, lynblenk, lynblink, lyneld, lynglimt, lynlys, lynljos, elding
 * Nyunga: babanginy, babaginy, babanginy
 * O'odham: wepgi꞉
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: wazimog, waasamowin, inaabiwin
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: блискъ, мльниꙗ
 * Old English: līeġetu
 * Old High German: blic
 * Old Javanese: kilat
 * Old Norse: leiptr
 * Old Saxon: bliksmo
 * Oromo: balaqqeessa
 * Ossetian: арвырттывд
 * Ottoman Turkish: شمشك
 * Pali: vijju, asani
 * Panamint: kongoyoppo'e, kongoyoppo'enah, kongoyopoppa'en, kuttapito'eh
 * Pashto: بجلي, ,
 * Persian:, , , ,
 * Pitjantjatjara: wanangaṟa, wiinpa
 * Polish:, , , mełnia
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਬਿਜਲੀ, ਰੋਹਣੀ
 * Quechua: illapa
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: chametg, cametg, tgametg, sajetta
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian: žaibs
 * Sanskrit:, , ,
 * Sardinian: lampu, ragiu
 * Saterland Frisian: Lai, Loai
 * Scottish Gaelic: dealanach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: муња, блесак, блијесак
 * Roman:, blesak,
 * Seri: æɑmxʷ, iʃɑ́ːʔoχ inóɸtx
 * Shona: mheni, kupenya
 * Sicilian: fùrmini,
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: blesk,
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:, ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: błysk
 * Upper Sorbian: błysk
 * Southern Altai: јалкын, јаажын
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: ,
 * Talysh: avəvü
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: upę́lena, phàcʼíene
 * Tarifit: ajjaj, assam
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: kilat
 * Tày: fạ mjẹp
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: mamera, rai-lakan
 * Thai:, , วิชชุ, ,
 * Thracian: zbel
 * Tibetan: གློག
 * Tigre: በርቅ
 * Tigrinya: በርቂ
 * Tocharian A: wasir
 * Tocharian B: wasir
 * Tupinambá: tupã beraba
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: ýyldyrym
 * Tuvan: кызаңнааш, чаңнык
 * Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎗𐎖
 * Ukrainian:, перу́н
 * Urdu: تڑیت
 * Uyghur: بەرق, چېقىن,
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian:, sciantis
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:, lelit
 * Walloon: ,
 * Waray-Waray: kidlat, linti
 * Warlpiri: wirnpa
 * Welsh: mellt, lluched
 * West Frisian: bliksem
 * White Hmong: xob laim
 * Yakut: чаҕылҕан
 * Yámana: tumutušu
 * Yiddish: בליץ
 * Zazaki:
 * Zhuang: byajyap, byaj
 * ǃXóõ: ʻmála, ǁnáa


 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 閃電
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Franco-Provençal: fudra
 * French:
 * Galician:, , , apago
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Latin: fulmen
 * Latvian:
 * Manx: çhenney
 * Navajo: atsiniltłʼish
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: یلدرم, صاعقه
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romansch: chametg, cametg, tgametg, sajetta
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:

Adjective

 * 1) Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish:, błyskawicowy
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To produce lightning.

Usage notes

 * The standard, but rare, verb for "produce lightning" is, used only in the impersonal form "it lightens", or as "it’s lightening".

Translations

 * Arabic:, أَبْرَقَ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: lyne
 * Nynorsk: lyne
 * Portuguese: relampear,