I'm at the hospital. I got struck by lightning.
Source: tatoeba (1850)
Lightning
//ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ//
Synonyms for "lightning" (53 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (26)
Related word relations
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2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
5 entriescauses
1 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
59 entriesShowing 16 of 59 words.
distinct from
1 entrieshas context
2 entrieshas property
5 entriesis a
16 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
similar
1 entriesTranslations
455 translations across 242 languages.
'Are'are
1 entries- 'aiwanawana noun (flash of light)
Abkhaz
1 entries- а-фы noun (flash of light)
Acehnese
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Adyghe
2 entries- пкӏыкӏэ noun (flash of light)
- пчыкӏэ noun (flash of light)
Afrikaans
3 entries- bliksem noun (discharge)
- weerlig noun (discharge)
- weerligstraal noun (flash of light)
Aguaruna
1 entries- čahip noun (flash of light)
Ainu
1 entries- イメル noun (flash of light)
Akkadian
1 entries- 𒉏𒄈 noun (flash of light)
Aklanon
1 entries- kidlat noun (flash of light)
Albanian
2 entries- rrufe noun (flash of light)
- vetëtim noun (flash of light)
Amharic
1 entries- መብረቅ noun (flash of light)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἀστεροπή noun (flash of light)
- ἀστραπή noun (flash of light)
Ao
1 entries- tsüngpret (Chungli) noun (flash of light)
Arabic
4 entries- برق noun (flash of light)
- برق noun (flash of light)
- بَرْق noun (flash of light)
- بَرْق noun (flash of light)
Aramaic
2 entries- בַּרְקָא noun (flash of light)
- ܒܪܩܐ noun (flash of light)
Archi
1 entries- парыла noun (flash of light)
Armenian
2 entries- կայծակ noun (flash of light)
- շանթ noun (flash of light)
Aromanian
2 entries- sfuldzir noun (flash of light)
- sfulgu noun (flash of light)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܒܸܪܩܵܐ noun (flash of light)
Asturian
1 entries- rellámpagu noun (flash of light)
Avar
1 entries- пири noun (flash of light)
Aymara
1 entries- illapa noun (flash of light)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- ildırım noun (flash of light)
- şimşək noun (flash of light)
Baluchi
2 entries- بیر noun (flash of light)
- گروک noun (flash of light)
Bashkir
1 entries- йәшен noun (flash of light)
Basque
2 entries- tximista noun (discharge)
- tximistargi noun (flash of light)
Bau Bidayuh
1 entries- kuning noun (flash of light)
Belarusian
3 entries- блі́скаўка noun (flash of light)
- бліскаві́ца noun (flash of light)
- мала́нка noun (flash of light)
Bengali
2 entries- বজ্র noun (flash of light)
- বাজ noun (flash of light)
Bikol Central
2 entries- kikilat noun (flash of light)
- linti noun (flash of light)
Breton
1 entries- luc'hed noun (flash of light)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Bulgarian
4 entries- светкавичен adj (extremely fast)
- мъ́лния noun (flash of light)
- мъ́лния noun (discharge)
- светка́вица noun (flash of light)
Burmese
1 entries- လျှပ် noun (flash of light)
Buryat
1 entries- сакилгаан noun (flash of light)
Caddo
1 entries- kǝhaudíːn-unǝ noun (flash of light)
Catalan
3 entries- llamp noun (flash of light)
- llamp noun (discharge)
- llampec noun (flash of light)
Cebuano
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- برووسک noun (flash of light)
- تریشقە noun (flash of light)
Ch'orti'
1 entries- hihƥ noun (flash of light)
Chamicuro
1 entries- yaple'ti noun (flash of light)
Chechen
1 entries- стелахаьштиг noun (flash of light)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᎾᎦᎵᏍᎩ noun (flash of light)
Cheyenne
1 entries- évóˀhoˀȧseˀha noun (flash of light)
Chichewa
1 entries- mphezi noun (flash of light)
Chinese
3 entries- дянгуон noun (flash of light)
- 爍爁 /烁𬊶 noun (flash of light)
- 閃電 /闪电 noun (flash of light)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 閃電 /闪电 noun (flash of light)
- 閃電 /闪电 noun (discharge)
- 電光 /电光 noun (flash of light)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 閃電 /闪电 noun (flash of light)
- 閃電 /闪电 noun (discharge)
- 電光 /电光 noun (flash of light)
Chukchi
2 entries- йынӄэргат noun (flash of light)
- йынӄэргын noun (flash of light)
Church Slavic
2 entries- блискъ noun (flash of light)
- мльниꙗ noun (flash of light)
Chuvash
1 entries- ҫиҫӗм noun (flash of light)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲉⲃⲣⲏϭⲉ noun (flash of light)
Cornish
1 entries- lughes noun (flash of light)
Corsican
1 entries- saetta noun (flash of light)
Czech
1 entries- blesk noun (flash of light)
Dalmatian
1 entries- limp noun (flash of light)
Danish
4 entries- lyn noun (flash of light)
- lyn noun (discharge)
- lynglimt noun (flash of light)
- lynnedslag noun (discharge)
Dargwa
1 entries- лямцӏ noun (flash of light)
Dari
4 entries- آذَرَخْش noun (flash of light)
- اَبْرَنْجَک noun (flash of light)
- بَرْق noun (flash of light)
- صَاعِقَه noun (flash of light)
Dutch
4 entries- bliksem noun (flash of light)
- bliksem noun (discharge)
- bliksemflits noun (flash of light)
- bliksemschicht noun (flash of light)
Dzongkha
1 entries- གློག་ noun (flash of light)
Eastern Arrernte
1 entries- alharrkentye noun (flash of light)
Egyptian
1 entries- s-Sd:d-I3-sbA:Z1 noun (flash of light)
Erzya
1 entries- ёндол noun (flash of light)
Esperanto
1 entries- fulmo noun (flash of light)
Estonian
1 entries- välk noun (flash of light)
Evenki
1 entries- агды noun (flash of light)
Extremaduran
1 entries- rayu noun (flash of light)
Farefare
2 entries- sa-yãka noun (flash of light)
- yãka noun (flash of light)
Faroese
1 entries- snarljós noun (flash of light)
Finnish
4 entries- salamannopea adj (extremely fast)
- salama noun (flash of light)
- salama noun (discharge)
- salamanisku noun (discharge)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- fudra noun (discharge)
French
3 entries- foudre noun (discharge)
- éclair noun (flash of light)
- éloise noun (flash of light)
Friulian
4 entries- lamp noun (flash of light)
- saete noun (flash of light)
- sfulmin noun (flash of light)
- tarlup noun (flash of light)
Galician
4 entries- apago noun (discharge)
- chispa noun (discharge)
- lóstrego noun (flash of light)
- lóstrego noun (discharge)
Ge'ez
1 entries- መብረቅ noun (flash of light)
Georgian
1 entries- ელვა noun (flash of light)
German
2 entries- Blitz noun (flash of light)
- Entladung noun (discharge)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌹 noun (flash of light)
Greek
4 entries- αστραπιαίος adj (extremely fast)
- κεραυνοβόλος adj (extremely fast)
- αστραπή noun (flash of light)
- κεραυνός noun (discharge)
Gujarati
3 entries- તડિત noun (flash of light)
- વિદ્યુત noun (flash of light)
- વીજ noun (flash of light)
Hawaiian
1 entries- uila noun (flash of light)
Hebrew
1 entries- בָּרָק noun (flash of light)
Higaonon
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Hindi
4 entries- तड़ित noun (flash of light)
- बिजली noun (flash of light)
- वज्रपात noun (flash of light)
- विद्युत noun (flash of light)
Hungarian
3 entries- villámgyors adj (extremely fast)
- villám noun (flash of light)
- villámlás noun (discharge)
Ibanag
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Icelandic
1 entries- elding noun (flash of light)
Ido
1 entries- fulmino noun (flash of light)
Ilocano
1 entries- kimat noun (flash of light)
Indonesian
4 entries- geledek noun (flash of light)
- halilintar noun (flash of light)
- kilat noun (flash of light)
- petir noun (flash of light)
Ingrian
2 entries- tuli noun (flash of light)
- valkia noun (flash of light)
Interlingua
2 entries- fulgure noun (flash of light)
- fulmine noun (flash of light)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᑲᓪᓕᑕᖅ noun (flash of light)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- آذَرَخْش noun (flash of light)
- اَبْرَنْجَک noun (flash of light)
- بَرْق noun (flash of light)
- صاعِقِه noun (flash of light)
Iranun
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Irish
1 entries- tintreach noun (flash of light)
Istriot
1 entries- foûlmini noun (flash of light)
Italian
4 entries- folgore noun (flash of light)
- fulmine noun (flash of light)
- lampo noun (flash of light)
- saetta noun (flash of light)
Japanese
4 entries- 稲光 noun (flash of light)
- 稲妻 noun (flash of light)
- 雷 noun (flash of light)
- 雷光 noun (flash of light)
Javanese
2 entries- geledek noun (flash of light)
- kilat noun (flash of light)
Kala Lagaw Ya
1 entries- pœnipan noun (flash of light)
Kalasha
1 entries- indóčik noun (flash of light)
Kanakanabu
1 entries- 'aparatʉ noun (flash of light)
Kannada
1 entries- ಮಿಂಚು noun (flash of light)
Kansa
1 entries- galéleze noun (flash of light)
Kapampangan
1 entries- kildap noun (flash of light)
Karelian
1 entries- tulenisku noun (flash of light)
Kaurna
1 entries- karntu noun (flash of light)
Kazakh
3 entries- жасыл noun (flash of light)
- нажағай noun (flash of light)
- найзағай noun (flash of light)
Khmer
3 entries- ផ្លេកបន្ទោរ noun (flash of light)
- រន្ទះ noun (flash of light)
- វិជ្ជុ noun (flash of light)
Kikuyu
1 entries- rũheni noun (flash of light)
Klallam
1 entries- ƛ̕əmƛ̕əmcínəŋ noun (flash of light)
Korean
2 entries- 번개 noun (flash of light)
- 벼락 noun (flash of light)
Kusaal
1 entries- sa-ian'asʋg noun (flash of light)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- чагылган noun (flash of light)
Lao
4 entries- ຟ້າເຫລື້ອມ noun (flash of light)
- ຟ້າແມບ noun (flash of light)
- ວິຊຽນ noun (flash of light)
- ວິທະຍຸ noun (flash of light)
Latgalian
1 entries- zibsnis noun (flash of light)
Latin
3 entries- fulgur noun (flash of light)
- fulmen noun (flash of light)
- fulmen noun (discharge)
Latvian
2 entries- zibens noun (flash of light)
- zibens noun (discharge)
Lezgi
1 entries- цӏайлапан noun (flash of light)
Limburgish
1 entries- blitsj noun (flash of light)
Lingala
1 entries- nkáké noun (flash of light)
Lisu
3 entries- ꓟꓬꓱꓼ ꓐꓬꓱꓼ noun (flash of light)
- ꓟꓰꓼ ꓜꓲꓼ noun (flash of light)
- ꓟꓶꓽ ꓐꓬꓱꓼ noun (flash of light)
Lithuanian
1 entries- žaibas noun (flash of light)
Lokono
1 entries- belebeliru noun (flash of light)
Lombard
3 entries- saetta noun (flash of light)
- saètta noun (flash of light)
- sumelech noun (flash of light)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- błysk noun (flash of light)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Blëtz noun (flash of light)
Macedonian
3 entries- молскавица noun (flash of light)
- молња noun (flash of light)
- секавица noun (flash of light)
Maguindanao
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Malagasy
2 entries- fotaka noun (flash of light)
- helatra noun (flash of light)
Malay
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Malayalam
3 entries- ഇടിവെട്ട് noun (flash of light)
- മിന്നല് noun (flash of light)
- മിന്നൽ noun (flash of light)
Maltese
2 entries- beraq noun (flash of light)
- sajjetta noun (flash of light)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡨ᠋ᠠᠯᡴᡳᠶᠠᠨ noun (flash of light)
Manx
2 entries- çhenney noun (flash of light)
- çhenney noun (discharge)
Maore Comorian
1 entries- peni noun (flash of light)
Maranao
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Middle English
1 entries- leyt noun (flash of light)
Mingrelian
1 entries- ტყვაცი noun (flash of light)
Mohawk
1 entries- tewennineˀkarahwanyonˀs noun (flash of light)
Mongolian
3 entries- цахилгаан adj (extremely fast)
- аянга noun (flash of light)
- цахилгаан noun (flash of light)
Montana Salish
1 entries- ʔesuˀwétʃiʔ noun (flash of light)
Moore
1 entries- sa-yãgre noun (flash of light)
Māori
1 entries- uira noun (flash of light)
Nahuatl
2 entries- tlapetlantli noun (flash of light)
- tlapetlānilli noun (flash of light)
Navajo
2 entries- atsiniltłʼish noun (flash of light)
- atsiniltłʼish noun (discharge)
Nepali
1 entries- चट्याङ noun (flash of light)
Norman
4 entries- epar noun (flash of light)
- écllaer noun (flash of light)
- écllai noun (flash of light)
- êpart noun (flash of light)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- birûsk noun (flash of light)
Norwegian
3 entries- blink noun (flash of light)
- lyn noun (flash of light)
- lynglimt noun (flash of light)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- lyn noun (flash of light)
- lynglimt noun (flash of light)
- lyne verb (to produce lightning)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- elding noun (flash of light)
- lyn noun (flash of light)
- lynblenk noun (flash of light)
- lynblink noun (flash of light)
Nyunga
3 entries- babaginy noun (flash of light)
- babanginy noun (flash of light)
- babanginy noun (flash of light)
O'odham
1 entries- wepgi꞉ noun (flash of light)
Occitan
4 entries- fólzer noun (discharge)
- lamp noun (flash of light)
- liuç noun (flash of light)
- ulhauç noun (flash of light)
Odia
1 entries- ବିଜୁଳି noun (flash of light)
Ojibwe
3 entries- inaabiwin noun (flash of light)
- waasamowin noun (flash of light)
- wazimog noun (flash of light)
Old Armenian
1 entries- կայծակն noun (flash of light)
Old English
1 entries- līeġetu noun (flash of light)
Old High German
1 entries- blic noun (flash of light)
Old Javanese
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Old Norse
1 entries- leiptr noun (flash of light)
Old Saxon
1 entries- bliksmo noun (flash of light)
Oromo
1 entries- balaqqeessa noun (flash of light)
Ossetian
1 entries- арвырттывд noun (flash of light)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- شمشك noun (flash of light)
- صاعقه noun (discharge)
- یلدرم noun (discharge)
Pali
2 entries- asani noun (flash of light)
- vijju noun (flash of light)
Panamint
4 entries- kongoyopoppa'en noun (flash of light)
- kongoyoppo'e noun (flash of light)
- kongoyoppo'enah noun (flash of light)
- kuttapito'eh noun (flash of light)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- блїскавка noun (flash of light)
Pashto
3 entries- بجلي noun (flash of light)
- برېښ noun (flash of light)
- برېښنا noun (flash of light)
Pitjantjatjara
2 entries- wanangaṟa noun (flash of light)
- wiinpa noun (flash of light)
Polabian
1 entries- måu̯ńă noun (flash of light)
Polish
4 entries- błyskawicowy adj (extremely fast)
- błyskawiczny adj (extremely fast)
- błyskawica noun (flash of light)
- grom noun (flash of light)
Portuguese
4 entries- veloz adj (extremely fast)
- corisco noun (discharge)
- raio noun (discharge)
- relâmpago noun (flash of light)
Punjabi
2 entries- ਬਿਜਲੀ noun (flash of light)
- ਰੋਹਣੀ noun (flash of light)
Quechua
1 entries- illapa noun (flash of light)
Romanian
2 entries- fulger noun (flash of light)
- trăsnet noun (flash of light)
Romansch
4 entries- cametg noun (flash of light)
- cametg noun (discharge)
- chametg noun (flash of light)
- chametg noun (discharge)
Russian
3 entries- молниено́сный adj (extremely fast)
- мо́лния noun (flash of light)
- мо́лния noun (discharge)
Samogitian
1 entries- žaibs noun (flash of light)
Sanskrit
4 entries- अशनि noun (flash of light)
- वज्र noun (flash of light)
- विद्युत् noun (flash of light)
- शम्पा noun (flash of light)
Sardinian
2 entries- lampu noun (flash of light)
- ragiu noun (flash of light)
Saterland Frisian
2 entries- Lai noun (flash of light)
- Loai noun (flash of light)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dealanach noun (flash of light)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- blesak noun (flash of light)
- blijesak noun (flash of light)
- munja noun (flash of light)
- блесак noun (flash of light)
Seri
2 entries- iʃɑ́ːʔoχ inóɸtx noun (flash of light)
- æɑmxʷ noun (flash of light)
Shona
2 entries- kupenya noun (flash of light)
- mheni noun (flash of light)
Sicilian
2 entries- fùrmini noun (flash of light)
- lampu noun (flash of light)
Sinhalese
1 entries- අකුණු noun (flash of light)
Slovak
2 entries- blesk noun (flash of light)
- hrom noun (flash of light)
Slovene
1 entries- strela noun (flash of light)
Somali
3 entries- biriq noun (flash of light)
- danab noun (flash of light)
- hillaac noun (flash of light)
Southern Altai
2 entries- јаажын noun (flash of light)
- јалкын noun (flash of light)
Spanish
3 entries- rayo noun (flash of light)
- rayo noun (discharge)
- relámpago noun (flash of light)
Swahili
1 entries- umeme noun (flash of light)
Swedish
2 entries- blixt noun (flash of light)
- ljungeld noun (flash of light)
Tagalog
1 entries- kidlat noun (flash of light)
Tajik
3 entries- барқ noun (flash of light)
- озарахш noun (flash of light)
- соиқа noun (flash of light)
Talysh
1 entries- avəvü noun (flash of light)
Tamil
1 entries- மின்னல் noun (flash of light)
Taos
2 entries- phàcʼíene noun (flash of light)
- upę́lena noun (flash of light)
Tarifit
2 entries- ajjaj noun (flash of light)
- assam noun (flash of light)
Tatar
1 entries- яшен noun (flash of light)
Tausug
1 entries- kilat noun (flash of light)
Telugu
2 entries- మెరుపు noun (flash of light)
- విడుదల noun (discharge)
Tetum
2 entries- mamera noun (flash of light)
- rai-lakan noun (flash of light)
Thai
4 entries- ฟ้าแลบ noun (flash of light)
- วิชชุ noun (flash of light)
- วิเชียร noun (flash of light)
- สายฟ้า noun (flash of light)
Tibetan
1 entries- གློག noun (flash of light)
Tigre
1 entries- በርቅ noun (flash of light)
Tigrinya
1 entries- በርቂ noun (flash of light)
Tocharian A
1 entries- wasir noun (flash of light)
Tocharian B
1 entries- wasir noun (flash of light)
Tupinambá
1 entries- tupã beraba noun (flash of light)
Turkish
1 entries- şimşek noun (flash of light)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýyldyrym noun (flash of light)
Tuvan
2 entries- кызаңнааш noun (flash of light)
- чаңнык noun (flash of light)
Tày
1 entries- fạ mjẹp noun (flash of light)
Udi
2 entries- ц̓аъкъ noun (flash of light)
- чӏаъкъ noun (flash of light)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎁𐎗𐎖 noun (flash of light)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бли́скавка noun (flash of light)
- перу́н noun (flash of light)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- błysk noun (flash of light)
Urdu
3 entries- بَرْق noun (flash of light)
- بِجْلی noun (flash of light)
- صاعِقَہ noun (flash of light)
Uyghur
3 entries- بەرق noun (flash of light)
- چاقماق noun (flash of light)
- چېقىن noun (flash of light)
Uzbek
2 entries- chaqmoq noun (flash of light)
- yashin noun (flash of light)
Venetan
2 entries- s-ciantixo noun (flash of light)
- sciantis noun (flash of light)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chớp noun (flash of light)
- sét noun (flash of light)
Volapük
2 entries- leklär noun (flash of light)
- lelit noun (flash of light)
Walloon
2 entries- aloumire noun (flash of light)
- aloumoere noun (flash of light)
Waray-Waray
2 entries- kidlat noun (flash of light)
- linti noun (flash of light)
Warlpiri
1 entries- wirnpa noun (flash of light)
Welsh
2 entries- lluched noun (flash of light)
- mellt noun (flash of light)
West-Frisian
1 entries- bliksem noun (flash of light)
White Hmong
1 entries- xob laim noun (flash of light)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- djirringu noun (flash of light)
Yakut
1 entries- чаҕылҕан noun (flash of light)
Yiddish
1 entries- בליץ noun (flash of light)
Yámana
1 entries- tumutušu noun (flash of light)
Zazaki
1 entries- vırsık (diq) noun (flash of light)
Zhuang
2 entries- byaj noun (flash of light)
- byajyap noun (flash of light)
ǃXóõ
2 entries- ǁnáa noun (flash of light)
- ʻmála noun (flash of light)
Sample sentences
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Lightning precedes thunder.
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Lightning is usually followed by thunder.
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Lightning can be dangerous.
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