thunder meaning in Sanskrit
गर्जन garjana
/ˈfʌndə/UK/ˈθʌndə/
thunder in Sanskrit: गर्जन (garjana), स्तनति (stanati). In English, thunder means the loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
Sanskrit words for thunder
- sound caused by lightning
- गर्जन garjana
- to make a noise like thunder
- स्तनति stanati
English meaning of thunder
- noun The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
- noun A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- noun An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- noun The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
thunder in a sentence
- Thunder is preceded by lightning.
- Thunder cracked overhead.
- Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
Synonyms of thunder
thunder in other languages
- thunder in Hindi
- thunder in Tamil
- thunder in Marathi
- thunder in Urdu
- thunder in Bengali
- thunder in Telugu
- thunder in Malayalam
- thunder in Kannada
- thunder in Punjabi
- thunder in Gujarati
- thunder in Odia
- thunder in Sinhala
- thunder in Assamese
- thunder in Tagalog
- thunder in Arabic
- thunder in Malay
- thunder in Indonesian
- thunder in Persian
- thunder in Thai
- thunder in Vietnamese
- thunder in Myanmar
Questions about thunder in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of thunder in Sanskrit?
- Thunder in Sanskrit is गर्जन (garjana), स्तनति (stanati).
- thunder इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Thunder: गर्जन (garjana), स्तनति (stanati).
- What does thunder mean in English?
- Thunder means the loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: thunder (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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