Image:Anvil shaped cumulus panorama edit.jpg|thumb|right|350 px|Photograph of clouds
English
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Pronunciation
IPA|/kla�d/
audio|en-us-cloud.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-a�d|-a�d

Etymology
OE. clud.

Noun
en-noun

1. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
2. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
3. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
4. A group of objects, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

#:He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.

Related terms
top2
anvil cloud
brain cloud
cloud bank
cloud base
cloud burst
cloud chamber
cloud cover
cloudless adj
cloudlet noun
cloud mass
cloud nine
cloud on title
mid2
cloudy adj.
every cloud has a silver lining
funnel cloud
have one's head in the clouds|have one�s head in the clouds
Magellanic Cloud
molecular cloud
mushroom cloud
Oort cloud
point cloud
rain cloud
star cloud
thundercloud
bottom2

Translations
trans-top|visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air
Arabic: Arab|سحابة f, Arab|غ��ة f
Czech: mrak m, oblak m
Georgian: ������ (�rubli)
trans-mid
Portuguese: nuvem f
Russian: облако (óblako) n, ���а (tú�a) f
trans-bottom

rfc-trans

Albanian: re f
Aleut: inkamiigus
Amuzgo: chinkiu
Arabic: Arab|سحابة f, Arab|غ��ة f
Aramaic:
:Syriac: ܥܢܢ� (�n�n�, �nono) f
:Hebrew: עננ� (�n�n�, �nono) f
trreq|Armenian
Bavarian: Woikn f (1, 2)
Bosnian: oblak m (1, 2, 3)
Breton: koumoul (collective), koumoulenn f
Bulgarian: облак (oblak) m
Catalan: núvol m
Chinese: �, � (yún)
Croatian: oblak m
Czech: verbs: zatemnit, zast�ít, zahalit, zkalit
trreq|Danish
Dutch: wolk f
Esperanto: nubo
Estonian: pilv
Ewe: alilikpo
Fijian: �
Finnish: pilvi (1,2), sumu (3), parvi (4)
French: nuage m
Georgian: ������ (�rubli)
German: Wolke f (1, 2), Schleier m (3)
Greek:
:Ancient: νέ�ο� (nephos) n
:Modern: ��ννε�ο (sínefo) n
Guaraní: arai (1)
trreq|Gujarati
Hawaiian: ao
Hebrew: ענ� (�anan) m
Hungarian: felh�
Ilocano: ulep
Indonesian: awan, mega
Interlingua: nube (1, 2, 3)
Irish: scamaill g|Irish
Isthmus Zapotec: az
Italian: nuvola f, nube f, nebbia f (3)
Japanese: �#Japanese|� (��, kumo)
Korean: 구� (gureum)
mid
Kurdish:
:Kurmanji: ewr m
:Sorani: KUchar|����ر
Latin: nubes f (1, 2, 3)
Latvian: m�konis g|Latvian
Lithuanian: debesis m
Maltese: sħaba f
Maori: kapua, ao
Malay: awan
trreq|Malayalam
trreq|Maltese
trreq|Mongolian
Norwegian: sky m
Occitan: nivol f
Ojibwe: aanakwad
Old English: wolcen n
trreq|Oriya
trreq|Persian
Polish: chmura f (1, 2, 3), ob�ok m (1)
Portuguese: nuvem f (1, 2, 3)
Powhatan: arakwat
Romanian: nor m
Russian: облако (óblako) n, ���а (tú�a) f
Sanskrit: म�� m
Sardinian (Campidanese): nui m
Scottish Gaelic: neul m
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: облак m (1, 2, 3)
:Roman: oblak m (1, 2, 3)
Slovene: oblak m
Spanish: nube m
trreq|Swahili
Swedish: moln n
Tagalog: alapaap, ulap
Tamil: ம��ம�
Telugu: మ��మ� (1), మబ�బ�ల� (usually plural) (1)
Tupinambá: ybatinga, ybytinga (1)
Turkish: bulut
Ukrainian: �ма�а (xmára) f
Volapük: lefog
Welsh: cwmwl m
Yiddish: ���ָ�ק� (volkn) m, ���ַרע (khmare) f
trreq|Zulu

See also
commons
Appendix:Collective nouns

Verb
en-verb

1. To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
2. To make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue).

Translations
Bosnian: naobla�iti
Breton: koumoulañ
Finnish: sumentaa
Portuguese: anuviar-se, enevoar-se, turvar-se
Interlingua: obnubilar se
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: наобла�и�и
:Roman: naobla�iti
Slovene: poobla�iti se, zatemniti
Turkish: bulutlanmak
Ukrainian: за��ма�и�и (zat'maryty)
Welsh: cymylu

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• 2008-01-02 05:51 - Stephen G. Brown - /* Translations */

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