thunderclap (sudden, loud thunder caused by a nearby lightning strike) · bolt from the blue, thunderclap, thunderbolt (event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
köken: First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 벼〮락〮 (Yale: pyélák). Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 벽력 (霹靂, byeongnyeok).
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.
lightning (flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth) · launderable jacket
çekim: çoğul pioruny · tamlayan pioruna
eş: grom, ogień niebieski
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *perunъ Old Polish piorun Polish piorun Inherited from Old Polish piorun. By surface analysis, prać + -un.
aile: jak rażony piorunem, niech piorun trzaśnie, piorunem, do stu piorunów, piorun kulisty, piorun sycylijski, jakby piorun strzelił, kto burzę sieje, pioruny zbiera
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.…