storm

See also: Storm

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /stɔːm/
(US) IPA^(key): /stɔɹm/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m

Etymology 1

From Middle English storm, from Old English storm (“a storm, tempest; a storm of arrows; disturbance, disquiet; uproar, tumult; rush, onrush, attack, violent attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturm, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz (“storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”). Related to stir.

Cognates

Cognate with Scots storm (“storm”), West Frisian stoarm (“storm”), Dutch storm (“storm”), Low German storm (“storm”), German Sturm (“storm”), Danish storm (“storm”), Swedish storm (“storm”), Norwegian Bokmål storm (“storm”), Norwegian Nynorsk storm (“storm”), Icelandic stormur (“storm”).

Noun

storm (plural storms)

Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.
The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
  We hear this fearful tempest sing, / Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm.
- 2012 January 1, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 70:
  Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
(Australia) A thunderstorm.
A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak.
The proposed reforms have led to a political storm.
- c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
  Her sister / Began to scold and raise up such a storm.
(meteorology) a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale).
(military) A violent assault on a stronghold or fortified position.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:storm

Coordinate terms

(meteorology): breeze, gale, hurricane

Derived terms

Terms derived from storm (noun)

any port in a storm
barnstorm
bestorm
blamestorm
blatherstorm
boot storm
brainstorm
broadcast storm
bug storm
buzzstorm
calm before the storm
crapstorm
cytokine storm
Desert Storm syndrome
duststorm
earthquake storm
earthstorm
electrical storm
eye of the storm
fart in a windstorm
firestorm
hail storm
hundred-year storm
ice storm
interrupt storm
ion storm
leafstorm
megastorm
midstorm
one-hundred-year storm
pawn storm
perfect storm
poststorm
prestorm
quiet storm
rainstorm
sandstorm
seastorm
shitstorm
silver storm
snowstorm
stormbound
storm cellar
storm chaser
stormcloud
stormcock
storm door
storm drain
stormfinch
stormflow
stormfront
stormful
stormglass
storm in a tea-kettle
storm jib
Storm Lake
stormless
stormlessness
stormlike
storm match
stormpath
storm petrel
stormproof
storm-ridden
storm sewer
storm-stayed
storm surge
storm tide
stormtossed
stormtrack
stormtrooper
stormwater
stormwind
storm window
stormworthy
storm-wracked
stormy
substorm
superstorm
take by storm
thunderstorm
tropical storm
tweetstorm
Twitterstorm
up a storm
weather the storm
Wilson's storm petrel
windstorm
winter storm

Descendants

→ Esperanto: ŝtormo
→ Irish: stoirm
→ Scottish Gaelic: stoirm

Translations

disturbed state of the atmosphere

Afrikaans: storm
Aghwan: 𐔴𐕝𐔴𐕌 (eśem)
Ainu: ルヤㇺペ (ruyampe), アㇷ゚ト (apto)
Albanian: stuhi (sq), furtunë (sq) f
Amharic: ማዕበል (maʿbäl)
Arabic: عَاصِفَة‎ f (ʿāṣifa), طُوفَان‎ (ar) m (ṭūfān)
Hijazi Arabic: عَاصْفة‎ f (ʿāṣfa)
Aragonese: tormenta f
Armenian: փոթորիկ (hy) (pʿotʿorik), մրրիկ (hy) (mrrik), հողմ (hy) (hołm)
Aromanian: furtunã f
Assamese: ধুমুহা (dhumuha)
Asturian: tormenta (ast) f
Azerbaijani: fırtına (az), tufan (az)
Bashkir: дауыл (dawıl), буран (buran)
Basque: ekaitz (eu)
Belarusian: бу́ра f (búra), шторм m (štorm) (sea)
Belizean Creole: staam
Bengali: ঝড় (bn) (jhôṛô)
Bikol Central: bagyo (bcl)
Breton: please add this translation if you can
Brunei Malay: ribut
Bulgarian: бу́ря (bg) f (búrja)
Burmese: လေမုန်တိုင်း (my) (lemuntuing:), မုန်တိုင်း (my) (muntuing:)
Catalan: tempesta (ca) f, temporal (ca) m, tempestat (ca) f
Cebuano: bagyo
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Cherokee: ᎦᏃᎸᏍᎩ ᎠᎦᏍᎩ (ganolvsgi agasgi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 風暴, 风暴 (fung¹ bou⁶)
Mandarin: 風暴／风暴 (zh) (fēngbào)
Min Nan: 風暴 (zh-min-nan), 风暴 (hong-pō)
Chuvash: тӑвӑл (tăvăl)
Corsican: timpesta (co) f
Czech: bouře (cs) f, bouřka (cs) f
Danish: storm c, stormvejr (da) n
Dutch: bui (nl) m or f, onweer (nl) n, onweersbui (nl) m or f
Egyptian:

(qrr m),

(nšnj m) (thunderstorm),

(ḏꜥ m) (stormwind),

(šnjt m) (hailstorm)
Esperanto: ŝtormo (eo)
Estonian: torm
Even: хуги (hugi)
Evenki: суги (sugi), хигин (higin)
Faroese: stormur m, ódn (fo) f
Finnish: myrsky (fi)
French: orage (fr) m, tempête (fr) f, tourmente (fr) f
Friulian: bovadice f, stravint m, temporâl, tristimp, borascjade, burlaç, codebuje, straleche
Galician: tormenta (gl) f, trebón (gl) m, treboada (gl) f, temporal (gl) m
Georgian: ქარიშხალი (karišxali)
German: Sturm (de) m
Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌰 (skūra)
Greek: καταιγίδα (el) f (kataigída)
Ancient: θύελλα f (thúella), καταιγίς m (kataigís)
Greenlandic: anorersuaq
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: ʻino
Hebrew: סְעָרָה‎ (he) f (se'arà), סוּפָה‎ (he) f (sufá)
Higaonon: bagyo
Hindi: आंधी (hi) f (āndhī), तूफ़ान m (tūfān)
Hungarian: vihar (hu)
Icelandic: stormur (is)
Ido: tempesto (io)
Indonesian: badai (id)
Interlingua: tempesta
Inuktitut: sunnaittuq
Irish: stoirm (ga) f, doineann f, anfa m
Istriot: tenpesta f
Italian: tempesta (it) f, bufera (it) f, burrasca (it) f, temporale (it) m
Japanese: 嵐 (ja) (あらし, arashi), 暴風 (ja) (ぼうふう, bōfū)
Javanese: prahara (jv)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: дауыл (kk) (dauyl), боран (kk) (boran)
Khmer: ព្យុះ (km) (pyuh), ព្យុះភ្លៀង (pyuh phliəng)
Korean: 폭풍(暴風) (ko) (pokpung)
Kyrgyz: бороон (ky) (boroon)
Lao: ພາຍຸ (phā nyu)
Latgalian: auka
Latin: tempestās f, procella f
Latvian: vētra (lv) f, viesulis m
Lithuanian: audra f
Livonian: tōvaz
Luxembourgish: Stuerm m
Macedonian: бура f (bura), невреме n (nevreme)
Malay: ribut (ms)
Malayalam: കൊടുംകാറ്റ് (koṭuṅkāṟṟŭ)
Manx: sterrym m, dorrin m
Maori: paroro, āwhā, pōkākā, tūpuhi, pāroro
Marathi: तुफान (tuphān)
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шуурга (mn) (šuurga)
Nahuatl: quiyahuatl
Neapolitan: tempesta f
Norman: tempaête f (continental Normandy), tempête f (Jersey)
North Frisian:
Föhr: sturem m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: storm (no) m
Occitan: tempèsta (oc) f, tormenta (oc) f, auratge (oc)
Old French: tempeste f, orage m
Oriya: ଝଡ଼ (or) (jhôṛô)
Pashto: توپان‎ (ps) m (topãn), جکړ‎ (ps) m (jakaṛ)
Persian: طوفان‎ (fa) (tufân), کولاک‎ (fa) (kulâk) (at sea)
Polish: burza (pl) f, sztorm (pl) m inan (at sea)
Portuguese: tormenta (pt) f, tempestade (pt) f, intempérie (pt) f
Punjabi: ਤੂਫਾਨ (tūphān)
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: furtună (ro)
Russian: бу́ря (ru) f (búrja) (windstorm), гроза́ (ru) f (grozá) (thunderstorm), шторм (ru) m (štorm) (at sea), бура́н (ru) m (burán)
Samoan: afā
Saterland Frisian: Stoarm
Scottish Gaelic: doineann f, sian f, stoirm m or f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: олу́ја f, не̏вре̄ме n, не̏врије̄ме n, не̏погода f
Roman: olúja (sh) f, nȅvrēme (sh) n, nȅvrijēme (sh) n, nȅpogoda (sh) f
Sicilian: burrasca (scn) f, purrasca (scn) f, timpesta (scn) f
Sinhalese: කුනාටුව (kunāṭuwa)
Slovak: búrka f
Slovene: nevihta (sl) f
Southern Altai: бороон (boroon)
Spanish: tormenta (es) f, tempestad (es) f, temporal (es) m
Swahili: dhoruba (sw), tufani (sw)
Swedish: storm (sv) c, oväder (sv) n
Tagalog: bagyo (tl)
Tajik: тӯфон (tg) (tüfon), бурон (buron)
Talysh: طوفان‎ (tufân)
Tamil: புயல் (ta) (puyal)
Tatar: буран (tt) (buran), давыл (tt) (dawıl)
Tetum: anin fuik
Thai: พายุ (th) (paa-yú)
Tibetan: རླུང་འཚུབ (rlung 'tshub), དྲག་ཆར (drag char)
Tigrinya: ማዕበል (maʿbäl)
Tlingit: k'eeljáa
Tongan: taufa
Turkish: fırtına (tr)
Turkmen: harasaat, tupan
Tuvan: бораан (boraan)
Ukrainian: бу́ря (uk) f (búrja), шторм m (štorm) (sea)
Urdu: طوفان‎ m (tūfān), آندھی‎ (ur) f (āndhī)
Uyghur: بوران‎ (boran)
Uzbek: boʻron (uz)
Vietnamese: bão (vi), bão táp (vi)
Volapük: tep (vo)
Walloon: oraedje (wa) m, timpesse (wa) f
Welsh: cwthwm m, storm (cy) f, storom f, tymestl f, ystorm f
West Frisian: stoarm (fy) n
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Yakut: силлиэ (sillie)
Yiddish: שטורעם‎ m (shturem), אויפֿברויז‎ n (oyfbroyz)
Yámana: tašeta
Zazaki: puk (diq) n, tofan c
Zulu: isiphepho

meteorology: wind scale for very strong wind

Bulgarian: щорм m (štorm)
Czech: bouře (cs) f
Danish: storm c
Dutch: storm (nl) m
Faroese: stormur m
Finnish: myrskytuuli (fi), myrsky (fi)
French: tempête (fr) f
Greek: ανεμοθύελλα (el) f (anemothýella), θύελλα (el) f (thýella)
Hungarian: vihar (hu)
Italian: tempesta (it) f
Japanese: 暴風 (ja) (ぼうふう, bōfū)
Khmer: ខ្យល់ព្យុះ (khyɑl pyuh)
Korean: 폭풍(暴風) (ko) (pokpung)
Latvian: vētra (lv) f, viesulis
Livonian: tōvaz
Malay: ribut (ms)
Manx: sterrym m, dorrin m
Maori: āwhā, tūpuhi
Norman: tempaête f (continental Normandy), tempête f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: storm (no) m
Nynorsk: storm m
Portuguese: vendaval (pt) m, borrasca (pt) f
Romanian: vijelie (ro) f
Russian: бу́ря (ru) f (búrja), шторм (ru) m (štorm) (at sea)
Slovak: búrka f
Slovene: vihar (sl) m
Spanish: temporal (es) m, borrasca (es) f, vendaval m
Swedish: storm (sv) c
Tagalog: bagyo (tl)
Ukrainian: бу́ря (uk) f (búrja)
Walloon: timpesse (wa) f
West Frisian: stoarm (fy) n
Zulu: isivunguvungu

military: violent assault on a stronghold

Armenian: գրոհ (hy) (groh)
Bulgarian: щурм (bg) m (šturm)
Danish: storm c
Dutch: bestorming (nl) f
Finnish: rynnäkkö (fi)
French: tempête (fr) f
Greek: έφοδος (el) f (éfodos), εφόρμηση (el) f (efórmisi)
Hebrew: הסתערות‎ f (histaarút)
Hungarian: roham (hu)
Italian: attacco (it) m, assalto (it) m, irruzione (it) f, offensiva (it) f, aggressione (it) f
Japanese: 猛攻撃 (もうこうげき, mōkōgeki), 強襲 (ja) (きょうしゅう, kyōshū)
Luxembourgish: Stuerm m
Malay: hujan (ms)
Maori: pāhoro, pāhoro
Polish: szturm (pl) m
Portuguese: assalto (pt) m
Romanian: atac (ro) n, asalt (ro) n
Russian: штурм (ru) m (šturm), при́ступ (ru) m (prístup)
Spanish: irrupción (es) m, asalto (es) m
Swedish: stormning (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Akan: ^{(please verify)} ahum
Amharic: ^{(please verify)} ማዕበል (maʿbäl)
Arabic: ^{(please verify)} إِعْصَار‎ m (ʾiʿṣār)
Cherokee: ^{(please verify)} ᎤᏄᎳ (unula)
Crimean Tatar: ^{(please verify)} boran
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} storm (nl) m
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} fulmotondro (with lightning)
Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ქარიშხალი (karišxali), ^{(please verify)} გრიგალი (grigali)
German: ^{(please verify)} Sturm (de) m
Greek: ^{(please verify)} ανεμοθύελλα (el) f (anemothýella)
Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} aravai, ^{(please verify)} yvytuatã
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} angin topan (id), ^{(please verify)} badai (id), (windstorm) ^{(please verify)} angin ribut (id)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} tempesta (it) f, ^{(please verify)} temporale (it) m, ^{(please verify)} burrasca (it) f, ^{(please verify)} bufera (it) f, ^{(please verify)} tormenta (it) f
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} رەشەبا‎ (ku) ? (reşeba)
Latin: ^{(please verify)} tempestās f, ^{(please verify)} procella f
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} audra f, ^{(please verify)} vėtra f
Maori: ^{(please verify)} aawhaa, ^{(please verify)} heihei (mi), ^{(please verify)} kaipapa, ^{(please verify)} marangai, ^{(please verify)} paroro, ^{(please verify)} pookaakaa, ^{(please verify)} rutu, ^{(please verify)} tuupuhi
Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} storm (no) m
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} furtună (ro) f, ^{(please verify)} vijelie (ro)
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} oluja (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} bura (sh) f
Slovene: ^{(please verify)} nevihta (sl) f, ^{(please verify)} vihar (sl) m
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} temporal de viento m, ^{(please verify)} viento fuerte m, ^{(please verify)} ventisca (es) f, ^{(please verify)} ventisquero m
Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} bagyóMalakas na bagyo- a powerful storm, ^{(please verify)} typhoon, ^{(please verify)} unos- disturbance in the atmosphere, (may unos-there is a storm) ^{(please verify)} as in, ^{(please verify)} hanging libot- the surrounding wind as in may hanging malakas sa palibot-the strong wind in the surrounding atmosphere.
Tamil: ^{(please verify)} புயல் (ta) (puyal), ^{(please verify)} கடு௩்கோபம்
Tupinambá: ^{(please verify)} ybytuaíba, ^{(please verify)} ybytugûasu
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} fırtına (tr), ^{(please verify)} bora (tr)
Volapük: ^{(please verify)} tep (vo), (thunderstorm) ^{(please verify)} mistom (vo)
Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} שטורעם‎ m (shturem)

Etymology 2

From Middle English stormen, sturmen, from Old English styrman (“to storm, rage; make a great noise, cry aloud, shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturmijan, from Proto-Germanic *sturmijaną (“to storm”). Cognate with Dutch stormen (“to storm; bluster”), Low German stormen (“to storm”), German stürmen (“to storm; rage; attack; assault”), Swedish storma (“to storm; bluster”), Icelandic storma (“to storm”).

Verb

storm (third-person singular simple present storms, present participle storming, simple past and past participle stormed)

(impersonal) (weather it) To be violent, with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.
It stormed throughout the night.
(intransitive) (figurative) To rage or fume; to be in a violent temper.
- 1731 (date written, published 1745), Jonathan Swift, “Directions to Servants”, in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], volume XVI, new edition, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, OCLC 1184656746:
  The master storms, the lady scolds.
(intransitive, with adverbial of direction) To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.
She stormed out of the room.
- 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611:
  A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
(transitive) [army; crowd, rioters] To assault (a significant building) with the aim to gain power over it.
Troops stormed the complex.
the storming of the Bastille
- 1974 [1973], Karol, K. S., “The August of the Ultra-Left”, in Mervyn Jones, transl., The Second Chinese Revolution‎, Hill and Wang, LCCN 73-91174, OCLC 482659617, page 278:
  The crowd was patient and never dreamed of storming Chungnanhai (which could scarcely have resisted a mass assault) and the most battle-tested groups made no attempt to send their commandos to kidnap the “highest leader.” Calm—if one may use the word—prevailed, and the group leaders were content to lead their followers in chanting slogans against Liu and quotations from Mao. The Chairman, like Vice-Chairman Lin Piao, had been away on a tour of inspection in the provinces since early July; at the time of the siege of Chungnanhai, he was in Wuhan.
(transitive) (rare, poetic) to assault, gain power over (heart, mind+).
- 1750, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music), “Theodora”‎:
  No engine can a tyrant find, to storm the truth-supported mind.

Derived terms

bestorm

Translations

to storm

Esperanto: ŝtormi
Turkish: esmek (tr)

to move quickly and noisily

Bulgarian: фуча (bg) (fuča)
Dutch: stormen (nl)
Finnish: rynnätä (fi), rynnistää
Hebrew: סער‎ (he) m (saár)
Italian: irrompere (it), precipitarsi (it), catapultarsi
Portuguese: irromper (pt)
Slovene: vihrati
Swedish: storma (sv)

to rage or fume

Bulgarian: бушувам (bg) (bušuvam)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大发雷霆 (zh)
Hebrew: סער‎ (he) m (saár), זעף‎ (he) m (zaáf)
Italian: dare in escandescenze, uscire dai gangheri, dare di testa
Maori: rutu

to assault

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: щурмува́м (bg) (šturmuvám)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 突袭 (zh)
Dutch: bestormen (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: rynnäköidä
French: donner l’assaut, assaillir (fr)
German: stürmen (de)
Hebrew: הסתער‎ (he) m (histaér)
Hungarian: rohamoz (hu)
Italian: assaltare (it), attaccare (it), prendere d'assalto
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Latin: expugnō, assultō
Maori: pāhoro, taiapu
Polish: szturmować (pl) impf
Portuguese: assaltar (pt)
Romanian: ataca (ro), asalta (ro)
Russian: штурмова́ть (ru) impf (šturmovátʹ)
Slovene: napasti, naskočiti
Spanish: irrumpir (es)
Swedish: storma (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: hücum etmek (tr), hücuma kalkmak

Anagrams

Morts, morts

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch storm.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɔrm/, [stɔɾm], [ˈstɔɾəm]
The plural is almost always disyllabic.
Audio (file)

Noun

storm (plural storms)

storm

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse stormr (“storm”), from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

Noun

storm c (singular definite stormen, plural indefinite storme)

storm

Inflection

Declension of storm

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	storm	stormen	storme	stormene
genitive	storms	stormens	stormes	stormenes

Verb

storm

imperative of storme

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɔrm/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: storm
Rhymes: -ɔrm

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch storm, from Old Dutch *storm, from Proto-West Germanic *sturm, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz.

Noun

storm m (plural stormen, diminutive stormpje n)

storm; a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane.
(of sieges or battles) assault, storming
Synonym: bestorming

Usage notes

Unlike English storm, the Dutch word is not associated with rainfall. A storm may, of course, be accompanied by rainfall, but the word as such refers only to strong winds.

Derived terms

stormen
stormachtig
stormvloed
stormweer
stormwind
beeldenstorm
hagelstorm
regenstorm
sneeuwstorm
wervelstorm
zandstorm
zeestorm

Descendants

Afrikaans: storm
Negerhollands: storm
→ Papiamentu: storm

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

storm

first-person singular present indicative of stormen
imperative of stormen

Anagrams

morst

Icelandic

Noun

storm

indefinite accusative singular of stormur

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *storm, from Proto-West Germanic *sturm.

Noun

storm m

storm, violent weather
storm, heavy wind
storm, assault

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Dutch: storm
Limburgish: stórm

Middle English

storm

Alternative forms

storme, strom, starme, storem (all but the first are rare)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English storm.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɔrm/

Noun

storm (plural stormes)

A storm; an instance of intense wind and precipitation (including a snowstorm)
An armed dispute, brawl or fight; an instance of combativeness.
(rare) Any intense event, happening, or force.

Related terms

stormy

Descendants

English: storm
- → Esperanto: ŝtormo
- → Irish: stoirm
- → Scottish Gaelic: stoirm
Scots: storm
Yola: stharm, starm

References

“storm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-08.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse stormr, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

Noun

storm m (definite singular stormen, indefinite plural stormer, definite plural stormene)

a storm
En kraftig storm er venta seinere i dag.
A strong storm is expected to hit later today.
en storm i et vannglass - a storm in a teacup (British)

Derived terms

Terms derived from storm

sandstorm
snøstorm
stormflo

stormfull
stormvarsel

støvstorm
virvelstorm

Related terms

storme

Verb

storm

imperative of storme

References

“storm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse stormr, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”). Akin to English storm.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɔrm/

Noun

storm m (definite singular stormen, indefinite plural stormar, definite plural stormane)

storm (a very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane)
Ein kraftig storm er venta seinare i dag.
A strong storm is expected to hit later today.

Derived terms

Terms derived from storm

kvervelstorm, virvelstorm
sandstorm

snøstorm
stormfull

stormvarsel
støvstorm

References

“storm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

stearm

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sturm, whence also Old Saxon storm, Old High German sturm, Old Norse stormr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /storm/, [storˠm]

Noun

storm m

storm

Declension

Declension of storm (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	storm	stormas
accusative	storm	stormas
genitive	stormes	storma
dative	storme	stormum

Descendants

Middle English: storm
- English: storm
  - → Esperanto: ŝtormo
  - → Irish: stoirm
  - → Scottish Gaelic: stoirm
- Scots: storm
- Yola: stharm, starm

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish stormber, from Old Norse stormr, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɔrm/
Audio (Phrase including indefinite article: en storm, literally 'a storm'. Female speaker from Gotland, Sweden.) (file)

Noun

storm c

storm; heavy winds or weather associated with storm winds.

Declension

Declension of storm
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	storm	stormen	stormar	stormarna
Genitive	storms	stormens	stormars	stormarnas

Anagrams

smort

storm

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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Etymology 2

Verb

Derived terms

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Afrikaans

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Danish

Etymology

Noun

Inflection

Verb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Usage notes

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

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Icelandic

Noun

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Noun

Inflection

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

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Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

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Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

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