nimbus

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnɪmbəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: N IH1 M B AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus (“dark cloud”). Doublet of nimb. Sense 2 (“grey rain cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation.

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: ореол (oreol) — circle of light — see also halo
• Bulgarian: нимба (nimba) — circle of light — see also halo
• Catalan: nimbe — circle of light — see also halo
• Chinese Mandarin: 暈 /晕 (yùn) — circle of light — see also halo
• Chinese Mandarin: 光環 /光环 (guānghuán) — circle of light — see also halo
• Chinese Mandarin: 光輪 /光轮 (guānglún) — circle of light — see also halo
• Chinese Mandarin: 圓光 /圆光 (yuánguāng) — circle of light — see also halo
• Dutch: nimbus — circle of light — see also halo
• Dutch: halo — circle of light — see also halo
• Esperanto: aŭreolo — circle of light — see also halo
• Finnish: sädekehä — circle of light — see also halo
• French: nimbe — circle of light — see also halo
• German: Nimbus — circle of light — see also halo
• Indonesian: nimbus — circle of light — see also halo
• Italian: nimbo — circle of light — see also halo
• Japanese: 後光 (gokō) — circle of light — see also halo
• Japanese: 暈 (kasa) — circle of light — see also halo
• Japanese: 光環 (kōkan) — circle of light — see also halo
• Latin: nimbus — circle of light — see also halo
• Polish: nimb — circle of light — see also halo
• Polish: nimbus — circle of light — see also halo
• Portuguese: nimbo — circle of light — see also halo
• Russian: нимб (nimb) — circle of light — see also halo
• Russian: орео́л (oreól) — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: нимбус — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: ореол — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: светокруг — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: ауреола — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: хало — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: nimbus — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: oreol — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: svetokrug — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: aureola — circle of light — see also halo
• Serbo-Croatian: halo — circle of light — see also halo
• Swedish: nimbus — circle of light — see also halo
• Turkish: ayla — circle of light — see also halo
• Turkish: hale — circle of light — see also halo
• Welsh: lleugylch — circle of light — see also halo
• Bulgarian: дъждовен облак (dǎždoven oblak) — rain cloud
• Chichewa: khongwa — rain cloud
• Chinese Mandarin: 雨雲 /雨云 (yǔyún) — rain cloud
• Dutch: nimbus — rain cloud
• Finnish: sadepilvi — rain cloud
• Finnish: nimbus — rain cloud
• French: nimbus — rain cloud
• German: Nimbus — rain cloud
• Indonesian: nimbus — rain cloud
• Japanese: 雨雲 (amagumo) — rain cloud
• Korean: 난운 (nanun) — rain cloud
• Latin: nimbus — rain cloud
• Māori: okewa — rain cloud
• Māori: kēkēao — rain cloud
• Polish: nimbus — rain cloud
• Portuguese: nimbo — rain cloud
• Russian: дождево́е о́блако (doždevóje óblako) — rain cloud
• Spanish: nimbo — rain cloud
• Tagalog: dagim — rain cloud
• Tagalog: ulaning alapaap — rain cloud
• Turkish: yağmur bulutu — rain cloud
• Welsh: nimbws — rain cloud