English
Etymology
A calque of German Kugelblitz.
Noun
ball lightning (usually uncountable, plural ball lightnings)
- A short-lived glowing ball sometimes observed to float in the air and thought to consist of ionized gas associated with thunderstorms.
- Synonyms: globe lightning, globular lightning
Translations
a short-lived, glowing ball sometimes observed to float in the air
- Bulgarian: кълбовидна мълния f (kǎlbovidna mǎlnija)
- Catalan: llamp en bola m, llamp globular m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 球狀閃電 / 球状闪电 (zh) (qiúzhuàng shǎndiàn), 球雷 (qiúléi)
- Czech: kulový blesk (cs) m
- Danish: kuglelyn
- Dena'ina: el'ekna daz'a
- Dutch: bolbliksem (nl)
- Esperanto: globa fulmo
- Estonian: keravälk
- Finnish: pallosalama (fi)
- French: foudre en boule f
- German: Kugelblitz (de) m
- Hebrew: כדור ברק m
- Hungarian: gömbvillám (hu)
- Icelandic: urðarmáni m
- Ingrian: tulikerä
- Irish: caorthintreach f
- Italian: fulmine globulare m
- Japanese: 球電 (ja) (きゅうでん, kyūden)
- Kazakh: жұмбақ найзағай (jūmbaq naizağai)
- Korean: 구상번개 (gusangbeon'gae)
- Lithuanian: kamuolinis žaibas
- Macedonian: топчеста молња f (topčesta molnja)
- Norwegian: kulelyn
- Polish: piorun kulisty m
- Portuguese: raio globular m
- Romanian: fulger globular (ro) n
- Russian: шарова́я мо́лния (ru) f (šarovája mólnija)
- Slovak: guľový blesk m
- Slovene: kroglasta strela f
- Spanish: rayo globular m
- Swedish: klotblixt (sv) c, kulblixt (sv)
- Turkish: yıldırım topu
- Ukrainian: кульова блискавка f (kulʹova blyskavka)
- Vietnamese: sét hòn
- Welsh: pelen fellt f
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