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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From heat + wave.
Noun
heatwave (plural heatwaves)
- A period of very hot weather.
- Antonyms: cold spell, cold wave
- A heat haze.
2021, Murray du Plessis, Modern Meditations: 101 Ways to Slow Down & Connect to Spirit:On a hot summer's day, one can literally see heatwaves shimmering off the surfaces of inanimate objects.
Translations
period of very hot weather
- Albanian: zagushi (sq) f, morovinë (sq) f, zabullinë f
- Arabic: مَوْجَة اَلْحَرّ f (mawjat al-ḥarr)
- Azerbaijani: bürkü (az)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 熱浪／热浪 (zh) (rèlàng)
- Czech: vlna veder f
- Danish: hedebølge (da) c
- Dutch: hittegolf (nl) m
- Esperanto: varmondo
- Estonian: kuumalaine (et)
- Faroese: hitabylgja f
- Finnish: helleaalto (fi), lämpöaalto (fi)
- French: vague de chaleur (fr) f, canicule (fr) f
- Georgian: თბური ტალღა (tburi ṭalɣa), სითბური ტალღა (sitburi ṭalɣa), სიცხის ტალღა (sicxis ṭalɣa), პაპანაქება (ṗaṗanakeba), ძლიერი სიცხის პერიოდი (ʒlieri sicxis ṗeriodi)
- German: Hitzewelle (de) f
- Greek: καύσωνας (el) m (káfsonas)
- Hebrew: גל חום m (gal khóm), חמסין (he) m, שרב (he) m
- Hungarian: kánikula (hu), hőhullám (hu)
- Icelandic: hitabylgja (is)
- Indonesian: gelombang panas
- Irish: tonn teaspaigh f
- Italian: ondata di caldo f
- Japanese: 熱波 (ja) (ねっぱ, neppa), 酷暑 (ja) (こくしょ, kokusho)
- Korean: 열파 (ko) (yeolpa)
- Malayalam: ഉഷ്ണതരംഗം (uṣṇataraṅgaṁ)
- Maori: hīrangi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hetebølge (no) m or f
- Persian: موج گرما (mowj-e garmâ)
- Polish: upał (pl) m
- Portuguese: onda de calor f
- Romanian: val de căldură n, caniculă (ro) f
- Russian: жара́ (ru) f (žará), зной (ru) m (znoj), пери́од си́льной жары́ m (períod sílʹnoj žarý)
- Spanish: ola de calor f, canícula (es)
- Swahili: wimbijoto
- Swedish: värmebölja (sv) c
- Ukrainian: спе́ка f (spéka)
- Vietnamese: sóng nhiệt (vi)
- Welsh: poethdon f
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