köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic дъждь (dŭždĭ), from Proto-Slavic *dъždžь, with spelling from Church Slavonic. Doublet of дожж (dožž, “rain (obsolete)”), from дъжжь (dŭžžĭ), from the same Proto-Slavic etymon.
köken: Through Aramaic ܛܘܦܢܐ / טוֹפָנָא (ṭōpānā) (Classical Syriac ܛܲܘܦܵܢܵܐ (ṭawpānā)), probably from a Sinitic language, though it has also been suggested that the term could be natively Semitic: see typhoon for more. Compare Cantonese 大風 /大风 (daai⁶ fung¹, “big wind”) and Ancient Greek τυφῶν (tuphôn).
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yā(y). Cognate with Kazakh жай (jai), Kumyk жая (jaya), Azerbaijani yay, Turkish yay, Turkmen ýāý, Uzbek yoy, Shor чачақ, Tuvan ча (ça), Western Yugur ya (“arrow”), etc.
to wet, dampen · to offer treat (usually a drink) for good luck for newly acquired goods · to send rain
çekim: geçmiş έβρεξα · ortaç έχοντας βρέξει · şimdiki βρέχει · ulaç βρέχοντας
köken: From Ancient Greek βρέχω (brékhō, “to wet, drench. Sense "rain" since Hellenistic times”). The impersonal 3rd singulars, by ellipsis of noun God, or Zeus, or the cloud, etc. Unrelated to βρέγμα (vrégma, “(anatomy) bregma”), assumed as related by Hippocrates and Aristotle.
aile: βρεγμένος, βρεμένος, βρεγμένη σανίδα, έχω μη στάξει και μη βρέξει, σαν τη βρεγμένη γάτα, τις βρέχω
Θα βρέξω τα ρούχα πριν τα σιδερώσω.
Αγόρασα παπούτσια. Πάμε να τα βρέξουμε.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:βρέχω.
shower (rain that rains heavily for a short amount of time) · thunder
eş: 소낙비, 취우
köken: First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 쇠나기〮 (Yale: swòynàkí). A conjunction of 쇠 (swoy, “very, suddenly, large”, adverb) + 나- (na-, “to exit”) + -기 (-ki).
rain (condensed water falling from a cloud) · downpour (other precipitation as a punishment from God) · downpour, shower (very large amount of something)
çekim: çoğul deszcze · tamlayan deszczu
eş: dżdża, wacha, ulewa, burza, grad
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *dъždžь Old Polish deżdż Polish deszcz Inherited from Old Polish deżdż.
aile: deszczomierz, kwaśny deszcz, złoty deszcz, potrzebować czegoś jak kania dżdżu, powstać jak grzyby po deszczu, powstawać jak grzyby po deszczu, wpaść z deszczu pod rynnę, wpadać z deszczu pod rynnę, z dużej chmury mały deszcz
köken: Inherited from Old Czech déšč, from Proto-Slavic *dъždžь of uncertain origin, probably from Proto-Indo-European *dus-diu- (“bad day”), from *dus + *dyew-.