hailstone

English

Etymology

From Middle English hailston, haylestone, hawelston, hawleston, from Old English hagolstān (“hailstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglastain, from Proto-Germanic *haglastainaz, equivalent to hail +‎ stone. Cognate with West Frisian heilstien (“hailstone”), Saterland Frisian Hailsteen (“hailstone”), Dutch hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Low German Hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Hagelstein (“hailstone”), Swedish hagelsten (“hailstone”), Icelandic haglsteinn (“hailstone”).

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Noun

hailstone (plural hailstones)

1. A single ball of hail, or solid precipitation

Derived terms

• hailstone number

 

Translations

single ball of hail

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: শিল বৰষুণ (xil boroxun)
• Belarusian: гра́дзіна f (hrádzina)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰雹 (zh) (bīngbáo), 雹子 (zh) (báozi)

• Cornish: keseren f
• Czech: kroupa (cs) f
• Dutch: hagelsteen (nl) m
• Dzongkha: སེརཝ (ser.w)
• Esperanto: hajlero (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rae (fi)
• French: grêlon (fr) m
• Galician: sarabia (gl), saraiba (gl) f, pedrazo (gl), saragana f, escarabán m, gresillo m, garaullo m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Hagelkorn (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: σφενδόνη f (sphendónē)

• Hungarian: jégszem (hu)
• Icelandic: hagl (is) n
• Ido: greluno (io)
• Japanese: 雹 (ja) (ひょう, hyō)
• Korean: 우박 (ko) (ubak)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: krušos gabalėlis m
• Maori: whatu
• Norman: brîn d'grile m
• Nupe: tákùn Sòkó, tákùn yán ele
• Polish: kulka gradu f, gradzina f, gradowina f
• Portuguese: granizo (pt) m
• Romanian: grindină (ro) f
• Russian: гра́дина (ru) f (grádina)
• Scottish Gaelic: clach-mheallain f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кру́па f

  Roman: krúpa (sh) f

• Slovak: krúpa f
• Spanish: granizo (es)
• Swedish: hagelkorn (sv) n
• Tamil: கல்மாரி (kalmāri)
• Taos: į̀ękǫ́na
• Telugu: కరక (te) (karaka)
• Thai: ลูกเห็บ (th) (lûuk-hèp)
• Turkish: dolu tanesi
• Ukrainian: гради́на f (hradýna)
• Volapük: grälaston (vo)
• Welsh: ceseiren f, cenllysgen f
• Yoruba: òkúta yìnyín

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