rainstorm

From rain +‎ storm.

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪnstɔːm/
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(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪnstɔɹm/
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Rhymes: -eɪnstɔː(ɹ)m

rainstorm (plural rainstorms)

A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
- 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
  To make matters worse, we pass through a torrential rainstorm, which makes window-gazing almost impossible, leaving me glad that the trip is less than 30 minutes duration.

storm characterized by substantial rainfall

Bulgarian: поро́й (bg) m (porój)
Catalan: tempesta (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 暴風雨 / 暴风雨 (zh) (bàofēngyǔ)
Esperanto: pluvego
Estonian: paduvihm (et)
Finnish: rankkasade (fi)
French: pluie torrentielle f, averse (fr) f, déluge (fr) m
Galician: temporal (gl) f, ballón (gl) m, invernada (gl) f
German: Regensturm m
Greek:
Ancient: ὄμβρος m (ómbros)
Hungarian: felhőszakadás (hu), zivatar (hu)
Italian: temporale (it)
Japanese: 暴風雨 (ja) (ぼうふうう, bōfūu), 荒れ (ja) (あれ, are)
Korean: 폭풍우(暴風雨) (ko) (pokpung'u)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Malay: hujan ribut
Maori: māwake pā roa (of long duration), marangai
Portuguese: temporal (pt) m
Russian: ли́вень с урага́ном m (lívenʹ s uragánom), ли́вневый дождь m (lívnevyj doždʹ), проливно́й дождь m (prolivnój doždʹ)
Spanish: tormenta (es)
Tagalog: ulang-bagyo, buraska
Thai: พายุฝน (paa-yú-fǒn)
Tibetan: རླུང་འཚུབ (rlung 'tshub)
Turkish: yağmur fırtınası
Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎌𐎎 (gšm)
Vietnamese: mưa bão

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