cirrus

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹəs/
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• homophone: cirrous
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• rhymes with -ɪɹəs
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹaɪ/
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• CMU ARPABET: S IH1 R AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Latin cirrus (“curl; fringe of clothes; mane (especially forelock) of a horse; etc”); further etymology unknown. Sense 2 (“type of cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation. The plural form cirri is also a learned borrowing from Latin cirrī, the nominative or vocative plural of cirrus.

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: cirrus — synonym of tendril (cognates) — see also tendril
• Esperanto: ĉiro — synonym of tendril (cognates) — see also tendril
• Galician: cirro — synonym of tendril (cognates) — see also tendril
• Italian: cirro — synonym of tendril (cognates) — see also tendril
• Portuguese: cirro — synonym of tendril (cognates) — see also tendril
• Spanish: cirro — synonym of tendril (cognates) — see also tendril
• Arabic: ذُؤَابَة (ḏuʔāba) — thin tendril-like appendage
• Catalan: cirrus — thin tendril-like appendage
• Dutch: cirrus — thin tendril-like appendage
• Finnish: cirrus — thin tendril-like appendage
• French: cirre — thin tendril-like appendage
• Galician: cirro — thin tendril-like appendage
• German: Cirrus — thin tendril-like appendage
• Italian: cirro — thin tendril-like appendage
• Korean: 극모 (geungmo) — thin tendril-like appendage
• Portuguese: cirrus — thin tendril-like appendage
• Russian: отро́сток (otróstok) — thin tendril-like appendage
• Russian: у́сик (úsik) — thin tendril-like appendage
• Spanish: cirrus — thin tendril-like appendage
• Spanish: cirro — thin tendril-like appendage
• Turkish: sirüs — thin tendril-like appendage
• Afrikaans: cirruswolk — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Albanian: ciruset — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Arabic: طَخَاء (ṭaḵāʔ) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Armenian: փետրավոր ամպեր (pʻetravor amper) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Asturian: cirru — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Basque: zirru — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Belarusian: перкаватыя воблакі (pjerkavatyja vóblaki) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Belarusian: перыстыя воблакі (pjerystyja vóblaki) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Bulgarian: перест облак (perest oblak) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Catalan: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Chinese Cantonese: 卷雲 /卷云 (gyun2 wan4) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Chinese Mandarin: 卷雲 /卷云 (juǎnyún) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Corsican: cirru — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Czech: řasa — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Danish: cirrussky — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Dutch: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Dutch: vederwolk — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Dutch: windveer — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Esperanto: ciruso — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Estonian: kiudpilv — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Finnish: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Finnish: untuvapilvi — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• French: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Galician: cirro — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• German: Cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• German: Cirruswolke — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• German: Zirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• German: Federwolke — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Greek: θύσανος (thýsanos) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Ancient Greek: θύσανος (thúsanos) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Hebrew: צירוס — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Hindi: पक्षाभ (pakṣābh) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Hungarian: pehelyfelhő — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Icelandic: blikufjaðrir — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Icelandic: blikutrefjar — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Icelandic: klósigar — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Icelandic: vatnsklær — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Indonesian: awan sirus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Irish: ciorras — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Italian: cirro — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Japanese: 巻雲 (ken'un) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Japanese: すじ雲 (sujigumo) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Kashubian: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Kazakh: шарбы бұлттар (şarby būlttar) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Korean: 권운 (gwonun) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Latin: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Latin: nubes cirra — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Latvian: spalvu mākonis — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Lithuanian: plunksniniai debesys — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Lombard: cirro — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Macedonian: цирус (cirus) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Malay: awan sirus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Māori: iorangi — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Māori: pūrehurehu — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Māori: pūrerehu — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Marathi: तंतुमेघ (tantumegh) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Mongolian: циррус үүл (cirrus üül) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Navajo: kʼos áłtʼą́ą́ʼí — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Neapolitan: cirr — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Norwegian Bokmål: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjærsky — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Norwegian Nynorsk: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Occitan: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Persian: ابر پرسان — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Polish: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Polish: chmura pierzasta — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Portuguese: cirro — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Romanian: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Romanian: cirus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Russian: пе́ристое о́блако (péristoje óblako) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Russian: пе́ристый (péristyj) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Serbo-Croatian: ци̑рус — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Serbo-Croatian: cȋrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Slovak: cirus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Slovene: cirus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Spanish: cirro — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Swahili: wingu vundevunde — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Swedish: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Swedish: cirrusmoln — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Swedish: fjädermoln — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Tagalog: ruruking alapaap — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Thai: เซอร์รัส — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Turkish: sirüs — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Ukrainian: або пір'ясті (abo pirʺjasti) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Ukrainian: перисті (perysti) — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Vietnamese: mây ti — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Waray-Waray: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Welsh: cirrus — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands
• Zulu: amayezi — type of cloud typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands