A snowdrift. From snow drift
snowdrift (plural snowdrifts
A bank of snow accumulated by the wind .
Synonym: snowbank 1962 Modern Railways , page 255 :In winter the line between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen was regularly blocked by snowdrifts ; in 1947, for instance, it was closed for eight weeks and only three weeks before it was finally closed no trains were able to use it for three days because of thick snow.
bank of snow
Azerbaijani: kürtük
Bashkir: көрт ( kört )
Bulgarian: преспа (bg) f ( prespa )
Catalan: congesta (ca) f pila de neu f cúmul de neu m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雪堆 (zh) ( xuěduī )
Czech: sněhová závěj f
Danish: snefane snedrive
Dutch: sneeuwbank (nl) f sneeuwduin f sneeuwdrift f
Erzya: шушмо ( šušmo )
Esperanto: neĝamaso
Estonian: lumehang
Faroese: kavafonn f
Finnish: nietos (fi) , kinos (fi) , lumikinos (fi) ; lumivalli (fi) (formed by plowing etc. rather than the wind )
French: congère (fr) f
Georgian: ნამქერი ( namkeri )
German: Schneewehe (de) f Schneeverwehung f
Greek: χιονοστιβάδα (el) f ( chionostiváda )
Greenlandic: apusineq aputip qingartagaa
Hawaiian: ʻapukāka
Hungarian: hófúvás (hu) , hókupac (hu) , hótorlasz (hu) , hóbucka (hu)
Icelandic: snjóskafli m
Ido: niv-amaso (io)
Ingrian: hanki kulvehto lumihanki lumikulvehto
Irish: ráth sneachta m
Italian: cumulo di neve m
Kazakh: күртік ( kürtık ) , омбы ( omby )
Livvi Karelian kivos hangi
Latin: cumulus nivis m
Macedonian: пре́спа f ( préspa ) , со́спа f ( sóspa )
Mingrelian: ლანქერი ( lankeri ) , ლენქერი ( lenkeri )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: snøfonn m or f snødrive m or f
Nynorsk: snøfonn f snødrive f
Polish: zaspa (pl) f zaspa śnieżna f
Portuguese: acúmulo de neve m
Romanian: troian (ro) n nămete (ro) m
Russian: сугро́б (ru) m ( sugrób )
Spanish: cúmulo de nieve m
Svan: ნენქერ ( nenker )
Swedish: snödriva (sv) c snövall (sv) c
Tofa: һөртүк
Ukrainian: заме́т m ( zamét )
Walloon: consire (wa) f sconsire (wa) f banc d' nive (wa) m
Welsh: lluwchfa f
