landslide

English

Etymology

From land +‎ slide.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.slaɪd/
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Noun

landslide (plural landslides)

A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
The candidate won by a landslide.

Synonyms

(natural disaster): earthfall, landslip, mudflow

Derived terms

Translations

natural disaster

Arabic: اِنْهِيَار أَرْضِيّ m (inhiyār ʔarḍiyy)
Armenian: սողանք (hy) (soġankʻ)
Asturian: argayu m
Basque: luizi
Belarusian: апо́ўзень m (apóŭzjenʹ), абва́л m (abvál)
Bulgarian: свличане (bg) n (svličane), свлачище (bg) n (svlačište)
Burmese: မြေပြိုခြင်း (mre-pruihkrang:)
Catalan: ensulsiada (ca), esllavissada f, esllavissament m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 山崩 (zh) (shānbēng), 滑坡 (zh) (huápō), 地滑 (zh) (dìhuá), 塌方 (zh) (tāfāng)
Danish: bjergskred n, jordskred (da) n
Dutch: lawine (nl) m or f, aardverschuiving (nl)
Esperanto: terŝoviĝo
Finnish: maanvyöry (fi), maanvyörymä (fi)
French: glissement de terrain (fr) m
Friulian: slac m
Galician: muracán m, freita f, nafreita f, barronca f, sulda f, fana f, esbarrondamento m
Georgian: მეწყერი (mec̣q̇eri)
German: Erdrutsch (de) m
Alemannic German: Rufi f
Greek: κατολίσθηση (el) f (katolísthisi)
Hebrew: מַפֹּלֶת (he) f (mapólet)
Hindi: भूस्खलन m (bhūskhalan)
Hungarian: földcsuszamlás (hu)
Indonesian: tanah longsor (id)
Irish: maidhm thalún f, sciorradh talún m
Italian: frana (it) f, smottamento (it) f, slavina (it) f
Japanese: 地滑り (ja) (じすべり, ji-suberi), 山崩れ (ja) (やまくずれ, yama-kuzure), 山津波 (ja) (やまつなみ, yama-tsunami), 土砂崩れ (どしゃくずれ, dosha-kuzure)
Kazakh: жылжыма (jyljyma), көшкін (kk) (köşkın)
Korean: 산사태(山沙汰) (ko) (sansatae)
Ladin: roa f
Lao: ດິນເກື່ອນ (din kư̄an)
Latin: lābīna f
Malay: tanah runtuh (ms)
Malayalam: മണ്ണിടിച്ചിൽ (ml) (maṇṇiṭiccil)
Maori: horo, horowhenua
Maranao: anas, tempag, tobak
Norwegian: steinras n
Bokmål: jordras n, jordskred (no) n

Nynorsk: jordras n, jordskred n
Plautdietsch: Ieedrutsch f
Pohnpeian: engk
Polish: osuwisko (pl) n
Portuguese: deslizamento (pt) m, desabamento m, derrocada (pt) f
Quechua: lluqlla
Romanian: alunecare de teren f, alunecare de pământ f
Russian: о́ползень (ru) m (ópolzenʹ), обва́л (ru) m (obvál), лави́на (ru) f (lavína)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: клизиште n, о̀дрон m, о̀сулина f

Roman: klizište (sh) n, òdron (sh) m, òsulina (sh) f
Sinhalese: නායයෑම් (nāyayǣm)
Slovene: plaz (sl) m
Spanish: corrimiento de tierra m, deslave (es) m (Latin America), desprendimiento (es) m, argayo (es) m (Spain)
Swedish: jordskred (sv) n
Tagalog: guho ng lupa, guhunlupa
Thai: ดินถล่ม (din-tà-lòm), แผ่นดินถล่ม (pɛ̀n-din-tà-lòm)
Tibetan: རྫ་རྡོ (rdza rdo), ས་རུད (sa rud)
Ukrainian: зсув (uk) m (zsuv), о́повзень m (ópovzenʹ), обва́л m (obvál)
Uzbek: oʻpirilish (uz), siljish (uz), koʻchish
Vietnamese: lở đất (vi), sạt lở đất
Welsh: tirlithriad m, cwymp tir m

vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority

Danish: jordskredssejr c
Finnish: äänivyöry (fi)
German: erdrutschartiger Sieg, überwältigender Sieg, Erdrutschsieg (de) m
Italian: vittoria schiacciante f, a valanga
Japanese: 地滑り的勝利 (じすべりてきしょうり, jisuberi-teki shōri)
Portuguese: lavada (pt)
Spanish: goleada (es) f
Thai: ชนะขาดลอย (chá-ná-kàat-lɔɔi), นอนมา (nɔɔn-maa)

Verb

landslide (third-person singular simple present landslides, present participle landsliding, simple past and past participle landslid)

To undergo a landslide.
- 1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356:
  So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.

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