مَطَر
root: م-ط-ر / noun / plural: أَمطار / definition: rain
In our Wehr Wednesdays series, we’ve seen two phrases so far related to rain:
- #138: سحّت السماء (“it rained cats and dogs”)
- #180: بغشت السماء (“there was a light shower”)
Both of them, though, are phrases with a verb and the word for “sky” as the subject. But what about the different Arabic words for rain (مطر) itself?
Today we’re adding to the fairly-new series of posts, Uncommon Arabic Words for…, which contain vocabulary lists that I’ve been updating as and when I come across new words.
Here’s what I’ve found so far in terms of uncommon Arabic words for “rain”:
رَذاذ
drizzle
رِهْمة
drizzle, lasting fine rain
بَغْشة
light rain shower
(see Wehr Wednesdays #180)
طَلّ
drizzle, fine rain
(this word also means “dew”—I guess both refer to very small droplets of water)
شُؤْبوب
downpour
جَود
heavy rains
زَخّة
downpour, heavy shower
رَخّة
light shower
(can we consider زخّة and رخّة word twins? Perhaps they’re more like siblings… they both refer to rain, but of different intensities)
وَبْل
downpour
وابِل
heavy downpour
(these two words are obviously derived from the same root—the latter has some very interesting collocations, though)
Now these last two are phrases that don’t necessarily introduce new words for “rain”, but they still seemed relevant(!):
هُطول الأَمْطار
downpour, heavy rain
كارِثة الأَمْطار
torrential rains
Have you come across any other Arabic words for the rain?
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