downpour

English

Etymology

From down- +‎ pour.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdaʊn.pɔː(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

downpour (plural downpours)

A heavy rain.
Synonyms: cloudburst, rainstorm, (rare) pourdown

They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.
- 1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
  I left Inverness on a Saturday afternoon in July in a steady downpour of rain.

Translations

heavy rain

Arabic: وَابِل m (wābil), مَطَر غَزِير m (maṭar ḡazīr), شُؤْبُوب m (šuʔbūb), هُطُول (huṭūl)
Armenian: տարափ (hy) (tarapʻ)
Azerbaijani: leysan (az)
Belarusian: лі́вень m (lívjenʹ), уле́ва f (uljéva), зале́ва f (zaljéva), дажджы́шча m (daždžýšča)
Bulgarian: поро́й (bg) m (porój), поро́ен дъжд m (poróen dǎžd)
Catalan: xàfec (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大雨 (zh) (dàyǔ), 傾盆大雨 / 倾盆大雨 (zh) (qīngpéndàyǔ), 瓢潑大雨 / 瓢泼大雨 (zh) (piáopōdàyǔ)
Czech: liják (cs) m
Danish: regnskyl n, øsregn c, styrtregn c
Dutch: wolkbreuk (nl) f
Esperanto: ŝaŭro
Finnish: kaatosade (fi), rankkasade (fi)
French: trombe (fr) f, averse (fr) f
Galician: chuvasco (gl) m, chuvascada (gl) f, ballón (gl) m, trebón (gl) m, cairo (gl) m, corisco (gl) m
German: Regenguss (de) m, Platzregen (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: ὄμβρος m (ómbros)
Hungarian: zivatar (hu), felhőszakadás (hu), zápor (hu)
Ido: pluvego (io)
Indonesian: hujan lebat (id)
Irish: duartan m
Italian: acquazzone (it) m, diluvio (it) m, temporale (it) m, rovescio (it) m, nubifragio (it) m
Japanese: 大雨 (ja) (おおあめ, ōame), 土砂降り (ja) (どしゃぶり, doshaburi)
Kazakh: нөсер жаңбыр (nöser jañbyr), нөсер (nöser)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 폭우(暴雨) (ko) (pogu), 큰 비 (keun bi), 호우(豪雨) (ko) (hou)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: по́рој m (póroj), по́роен дожд m (póroen dožd), по́ројник m (pórojnik) (literary)
Malay: hujan lebat
Maori: patapataiāwhā
Norman: dêtchèrque f, dêcliaitchie f
Norn: ålup n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: regnskyll (no) n, øsregn n

Nynorsk: styrtregn n, pøsregn n
Occitan: marcejada (oc) f
Old Prussian: suge
Polish: ulewa (pl) f
Portuguese: temporal (pt) m, toró (pt) m, chuvada, aguaceiro (pt)
Romanian: aversă (ro) f, ploaie torențială f
Russian: ли́вень (ru) m (lívenʹ), проливно́й дождь m (prolivnój doždʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: jaka kiša f, pljusak (sh) m
Slovak: lejak m
Slovene: ploha f, naliv m
Spanish: chaparrón (es) m, aguacero (es), chubasco (es) m, (Venezuela) palo de agua (es), jarreo (es) m
Swedish: ösregn (sv) n
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: sağanak (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎌𐎎 (gšm)
Ukrainian: зли́ва (uk) f (zlýva), ли́вень (uk) m (lývenʹ), зали́ва f (zalýva), про́ливень m (prólyvenʹ), хлю́ща f (xljúšča)
Uzbek: jala (uz)
Vietnamese: mưa rào (vi)
Welsh: curlaw m, tywalltiad m
Yiddish: שלאַקסרעגן m (shlaksregn)

Verb

downpour (third-person singular simple present downpours, present participle downpouring, simple past and past participle downpoured)

(intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.
- 2002, Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211:
  It started to downpour, so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.