graupel

English

graupel fallen on the street

Etymology

Borrowed from German Graupel, from German Graupe, from a Slavic language.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹaʊpəl/
Audio (UK) (file)

Noun

graupel (countable and uncountable, plural graupels)

(meteorology, uncountable) A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.
Synonym: popcorn snow
(meteorology, countable) The result of this process, a small ball of rime.
Synonym: snow pellet

Translations

supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake

Belarusian: крупа́ f (krupá)
Bulgarian: сугра́шица (bg) f (sugrášica)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 霰 (zh) (xiàn)
Czech: kroupa (cs) f
Finnish: lumirae
French: neige roulée (fr) f
German: Graupel (de) m or f
Japanese: 霰 (ja) (あられ, arare)
Korean: 우박 (ko) (ubak)
Polish: krupa (pl) f
Russian: крупа́ (ru) f (krupá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кру́па f

Roman: krúpa (sh) f
Slovak: krúpa f
Ukrainian: крупа́ f (krupá)

See also

Anagrams

earplug, pergula, plaguer

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