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

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation, Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪndɹɒp/
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛjndɹɔp/
  • (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɾeindɾɒp/
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɾendɾɔp/
  • (Liverpool) IPA^(key): /ˈɾɛindɾɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪndɹɑp/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪndɹɒp/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæɪndɹɔp/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæɪndɹɒp/, [ˈɹæɪndɹɔ̟p] ~ [-dɹɞ̠p]

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”.

Derived terms

• raindrop cake
• raindroplet
• raindroppy
• raindrop technique
• raindrop therapy

Translations

droplet of rainwater

• Arabic: قَطْرَةُ مَطَر f (qaṭratu maṭar)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: yağış damlası, yağış damcısı
• Bulgarian: дъждо́вна ка́пка f (dăždóvna kápka)
• Catalan: gota d'aigua
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雨滴 (zh) (yǔdī), 雨點 / 雨点 (zh) (yǔdiǎn)

• Cornish: glawen f
• 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 (ja) (うてき, uteki), 雨垂れ (ja) (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 f (kapka dožd)
• Malayalam: മഴത്തുള്ളി (maḻattuḷḷi)
• Manchu: ᠰᠠᠪᡩᠠᠨ (sabdan)
• Māori: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: वर्षाबिंदु m (varṣābindu)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: борооны дусал (boroony dusal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regndråpe m

  Nynorsk: regndrope m

• Occitan: gota (oc) de (oc) pluèja (oc) f
• Old English: reġndropa m
• Persian: قطرهٔ باران (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 dažďa f, dažďová kvapka f
• 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
• Tibetan: ཆར་ཟིལ (char zil)
• Turkish: yağmur damlası
• Ukrainian: дощова́ кра́пля f (doščová kráplja), кра́пля дощу́ f (kráplja doščú)
• Vietnamese: giọt mưa
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: diferion glaw
• Yiddish: ריינדראַפּ (reyndrap)