to flash with lightning · to flash with lightning (of the sky) · to flash like lightning
çekim: geçmiş balenàto · ortaç balenàto · şimdiki baléna · ulaç balenànte
eş: lampeggiare, brillare, sfolgorare, (di un pensiero etc., venire improvvisamente alla mente), scaturire
köken: Uncertain. Perhaps from balena (“whale”), due to a popular habit of indicating atmospherical phenomena using the names of sea monsters + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
aile: baleno
In corrispondenza del torrione occidentale si apriva un enorme forno per il pane che già balenava di fiamme rossastre.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic лучь (lučĭ), from Proto-Slavic *lučь (“ray; torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowkis, which is derived from *lewk-.
lightning, a lightning bolt (a single discharge of lightning) · a flash (burst of light) · a flash (device which can produce a short burst of light, e.g. for photography)
çekim: çoğul blixtar · tamlayan blixts
köken: Deverbal from blixta, which is itself from blixa. More under entry blixtra. Cognate of German Blitz and Dutch bliksem.
köken: From Old Danish glimme, from Old Norse *glim, *glima, from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). See also Norwegian glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.
köken: Attested since 1370. Uncertain etymology. Perhaps from Latin lūstrō (“to purify; to illuminate”) from Latin lūstrum (“sacrifice”); or rather, given the stressed vowel /o/, from Proto-Celtic *lowkstriko-, from Proto-Celtic *lowko- (“bright, light”): compare Welsh lluched (“lightning”) and North Catalan llaucet. Alternatively, deverbal from lostregar, and this irregularly from Latin *lūstricare.…