lightning rod

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• /ˈlaɪtnɪŋ ˌɹɒd/
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70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَانِعَة صَوَاعِق — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Armenian: շանթարգել (šantʻargel) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Azerbaijani: ildırımötürən — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Azerbaijani: ildırım ötürücü — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Bashkir: йәшен ҡайтарғыс (yəşen qaytarğıs) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Bulgarian: гръмоотвод (grǎmootvod) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Catalan: parallamps — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Crimean Tatar: yaşınçeker — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Czech: hromosvod — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Czech: bleskosvod — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Dutch: bliksemafleider — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Dutch: donderroede — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Esperanto: fulmoŝirmilo — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Estonian: piksevarras — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Finnish: ukkosenjohdatin — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• French: paratonnerre — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Galician: pararraios — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Georgian: მეხამრიდი (mexamridi) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Georgian: მეხთამრიდი (mextamridi) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Georgian: მეხსარიდი (mexsaridi) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• German: Blitzableiter — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Greek: αλεξικέραυνο (alexikéravno) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Hindi: तड़ित चालक (taṛit cālak) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Hungarian: villámhárító — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Indonesian: penangkal petir — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Ingrian: gromootvoda — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Irish: conduchtaire tintrí — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Italian: parafulmine — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Japanese: 避雷針 (hiraishin) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Korean: 피뢰침 (piroechim) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Macedonian: громобран (gromobran) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Malay: konduktor kilat — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Norwegian Bokmål: lynavleder — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lynavleiar — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Polish: piorunochron — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Portuguese: para-raios — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Romanian: paratrăsnet — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Russian: громоотво́д (gromootvód) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Russian: молниеотво́д (molnijeotvód) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Serbo-Croatian: гро̏мобра̄н — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Serbo-Croatian: муњобран — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Serbo-Croatian: громосвод — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Serbo-Croatian: grȍmobrān — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Serbo-Croatian: munjobran — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Serbo-Croatian: gromosvod — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Slovak: hromozvod — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Slovak: bleskozvod — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Slovene: strelovod — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Spanish: pararrayos — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Spanish: pararrayo — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Swedish: åskledare — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Tagalog: kayag-kidlat — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Tagalog: pararayos — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Tamil: இடிதாங்கி (iṭitāṅki) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Thai: สายล่อฟ้า (sǎai-lɔ̂ɔ-fáa) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Turkish: yıldırımsavar — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Turkish: paratoner — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Ukrainian: блискави́чник (blyskavýčnyk) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Ukrainian: блискавковідві́д (blyskavkovidvíd) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Ukrainian: громовідвід (hromovidvid) — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Vietnamese: cột thu lôi — metallic conductor that protects from lightning
• Bulgarian: гръмоотвод (grǎmootvod) — metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target
• Chinese Mandarin: 颱風尾 /台风尾 — metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target
• Czech: hromosvod — metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target
• Estonian: piksevarras — metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target
• Finnish: ukkosenjohdatin — metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target
• Greek: κεραυνός (keravnós) — metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target
• Russian: стре́лочник (stréločnik) — metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target
• Russian: козёл отпуще́ния (kozjól otpuščénija) — metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target
• Slovak: hromozvod — metaphorically: person or thing that distracts criticism from another target