köken: From Middle High German blitze (“lightning”), from Old High German blëcchazzen; compare English bleak and bleach. Synchronically analyzed as a nominal formation from blitzen (“to flash”), see there for more. Cognates See also Old Saxon bliksmo (“lightning”), Old English blæcern (“candlestick”), Dutch bliksem, Ancient Greek φλέγω (phlégō, “to burn, blaze”), Sanskrit भ्राज (bhrāja, “to radiate,…
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.
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.…