Korean/Words/벼락

벼락

Strokes of cloud-to-ground lightning during a thunderstorm

Sound of a thunderstorm ^[1]

Jael shows the slain Sisera to Barak, by James Tissot.

Roman: byeorag
Noun [2] [3]
공중의 전기와 땅 위의 물체에 흐르는 전기 사이에 방전 작용으로 일어나는 자연 현상.
thunderbolt (thunder + lightning) [4] from thunderstorm
thundercrack cf. Icelandic þórduna, Swedish tordön, lit. "Thor's crack"

Synonyms

Korean	Sino-Korean
번개 (beon-gae, "lightning") ^[5] 우레 (ure, "thunder") ^[6] ^[7]	천둥 (天動, cheondung, "thunder") ^[8] 뇌우 (雷雨, noe-u, "thunderstorm") ^[9]

Compounds

돈벼락 (don-, "blessing with money") ^[10]
벼락부자 (-buja, "an overnight millionaire")

Relatives

벼랑 (byeorang, "precipice")
벼룩 (byeorug, "flea")

Comparatives

Adapted from lightning #Translations	Adapted from thunder #Translations
Akkadian: 𒉏𒄈 (birqu) Arabic: بَرْق‎ (barq) Aramaic: ܒܪܩܐ‎ (barqā) Ge'ez: በረቀ (bäräḳä) Tigre: በርቅ (bärḳ) Hebrew: בָּרָק‎ (barák) ^[11] Korean: 벼락 (byeorak) Persian: برق‎ (barq) Somali: biriq Tajik: барқ (barq) Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎗𐎖 (brq) Uyghur: بەرق‎ (berq)	Indonesian: guruh Malay: guruh Kazakh: күркіреу (kürkirew) Kyrgyz: күркүрөө (kürküröö) Belarusian: гром (hrom) Bulgarian: гръм (grǎm) Czech: hrom Polish: grom Russian: гром (grom) Serbo-Croatian: гром (grom) Slovak: hrom Slovene: grom

See also

구름 (gureum, "cloud") as the phenomenal source of 벼락 "thunderbolt"
구르다 (gureuda, "to roll") as the onomatopoeic source of 구름 "cloud"

↑ You miss a thundercrack here.
↑ https://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=벼락
↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/벼락
↑ The Korean order is also thunder followed by lightning as "천둥번개". But the natural order is lightening followed by thunder, of course.
↑ (mimic) cf. 번쩍
↑
(onomatopoeic) See also
- 우르렁 (ureureong, "thundering sound") cf. 으르렁 (eureureong, "deep roaring sound as of the lion")
- 구름 (gureum, "cloud" as the source of lightning and thunder) cf. 구르다 (gureuda, "to roll")
↑ 번개우레 is proposed to replace 천둥번개. However, 벼락 is everything anyway!
↑ 천둥과 번개를 동반하는 대기 중의 방전 현상.
↑ 천둥과 번개를 동반한 비.
↑ 갑자기 한꺼번에 생긴 많은 돈을 비유적으로 이르는 말.
↑
Etymology

Barak ברק means lightning in Hebrew. Barcas, the surname of the famous Hamilcar Barca, is the Punic equivalent of the name.

[1] You miss a thundercrack here.

[2] ttps://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=벼락

[3] ttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/벼락

[4] The Korean order is also thunder followed by lightning as "천둥번개". But the natural order is lightening followed by thunder, of course.

[5] (mimic) cf. 번쩍

[6] (onomatopoeic) See also
우르렁 (ureureong, "thundering sound") cf. 으르렁 (eureureong, "deep roaring sound as of the lion")

구름 (gureum, "cloud" as the source of lightning and thunder) cf. 구르다 (gureuda, "to roll")

[7] 우르렁 (ureureong, "thundering sound") cf. 으르렁 (eureureong, "deep roaring sound as of the lion")

[8] 구름 (gureum, "cloud" as the source of lightning and thunder) cf. 구르다 (gureuda, "to roll")

[7] 번개우레 is proposed to replace 천둥번개. However, 벼락 is everything anyway!

[8] 천둥과 번개를 동반하는 대기 중의 방전 현상.

[9] 천둥과 번개를 동반한 비.

[10] 갑자기 한꺼번에 생긴 많은 돈을 비유적으로 이르는 말.

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Etymology

Barak ברק means lightning in Hebrew. Barcas, the surname of the famous Hamilcar Barca, is the Punic equivalent of the name.

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