graupel

English

graupel fallen on the street

Etymology

Borrowed from German Graupel, derived from Graupe (“grain of pearl barley”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *krupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹaʊpəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

graupel (countable and uncountable, plural graupels)

1. (meteorology, uncountable) A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.

   Synonym: popcorn snow

   • 1876 November 2, Nature:

     With increase in latitude and in height the fall of graupel increases and that of hail decreases

2. (meteorology, countable) The result of this process, a small ball of rime.

   Synonym: snow pellet

Translations

supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake

• Belarusian: крупа́ f (krupá)
• Bulgarian: сугра́шица (bg) f (sugrášica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 霰 (zh) (xiàn)

• Czech: kroupa (cs) f
• Finnish: lumirae
• French: neige roulée (fr) f
• German: Graupel (de) m or f
• Japanese: 霰 (ja) (あられ, arare)
• Korean: 우박 (ko) (ubak)
• Polish: krupa (pl) f
• Russian: крупа́ (ru) f (krupá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кру́па f

  Roman: krúpa (sh) f

• Slovak: krúpa f
• Ukrainian: крупа́ f (krupá)

See also

• ice pellets
• sleet
• snow
• freezing rain

Anagrams

• earplug, pergula, plaguer