raindrop

raindrop

English

Raindrops

Etymology

From Middle English rein-drope, reyn-drope, reyn drope, from Old English reġndropa, from Proto-Germanic *regnadrupô. Equivalent to rain +‎ drop. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Riendruppe, West Frisian reindrip, Dutch regendroppel, regendruppel, German Low German Regendrüpp, German Regentropfen, Swedish regndroppe, Icelandic regndropi.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rānʹdrŏp, IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪndɹɒp/
• (General American) enPR: rānʹdrŏp, IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪndɹɑp/

Noun

raindrop (plural raindrops)

1. A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.

   Hypernym: drop

   • 1902, John Muir, "The Grand Cañon of the Colorado":

     It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries.

   • 1969, Hal David (lyricist), “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head”.

Translations

droplet of rainwater

Arabic: قطرة مطر‎ f Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: yağış damlası, yağış damcısı Bulgarian: дъждовна капка f (dǎždovna kapka) Catalan: gota d'aigua Cherokee: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 雨滴 (zh) (yǔdī), 雨點／雨点 (zh), 雨点 (zh) (yǔdiǎn) Danish: regndråbe (da) c Dutch: regendruppel (nl) m Esperanto: pluvero (eo) Estonian: vihmapiisk Faroese: regndropi m Finnish: sadepisara French: goutte de pluie f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Regentropfen (de) m Greek: στάλα (el) (stála) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Haitian Creole: gout lapli, grenn lapli Hebrew: טיפת גשם‎ f (tipát géshem) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: esőcsepp (hu) Icelandic: regndropi (is) Indonesian: titik hujan, tetes hujan (id) Japanese: 雨滴 (うてき, uteki), 雨垂れ (あまだれ, amadare), 雨粒 (あまつぶ, amatsubu) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: តំណក់ទឹកភ្លៀង (tɑmnɑk tɨk pliəng) Korean: 빗방울 (ko) (bitbang'ul) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: dilopa baranê Lao: ຢາດຝົນ (yāt fon) Latvian: lietus lāse Lithuanian: lietaus lašas Luxembourgish: Reendrëps f Macedonian: капка дожд (kapka dožd) Malayalam: മഴത്തുള്ളി (maḻattuḷḷi) Maori: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: борооны дусал (boroony dusal) Norwegian: Bokmål: regndråpe m Nynorsk: regndrope m Occitan: please add this translation if you can Old English: reġndropa m Persian: قطرۀ باربن‎ (qatre-ye bârân) Polish: kropla deszczu Portuguese: pinga (pt) f, pingo (pt) m Romanian: picătură de ploaie Russian: дождева́я ка́пля f (doždevája káplja), ка́пля дождя́ f (káplja doždjá), дожди́нка (ru) f (doždínka) (colloquial) Scottish Gaelic: boinne uisge (gd) Slovak: kvapka (sk) dažďa (sk), dažďová kvapka (sk) Spanish: gota de lluvia f Swedish: regndroppe (sv) c Tagalog: patak-ulan Tamil: மழைத்துளி (ta) (maḻaittuḷi) Taos: łùléna Telugu: వానచినుకు (vānacinuku) Thai: เม็ดฝน, หยาดฝน, หยดฝน Turkish: yağmur damlası Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: giọt mưa Volapük: please add this translation if you can Welsh: diferion glaw Yiddish: ריינדראַפּ‎ (reyndrap)

Derived terms

• raindrop cake
• raindrop technique
• raindrop therapy