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

Translations

natural disaster

Arabic: اِنْهِيَار أَرْضِيّ‎‎ m (inhiyār ʾarḍiyy)
Armenian: սողանք (hy) (sołankʿ)
Belarusian: апо́ўзень m (apóŭzjenʹ), абва́л m (abvál)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: ensulsiada, 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, f, aardverschuiving (nl)
Esperanto: terŝoviĝo
Finnish: maanvyöry (fi), maanvyörymä
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)
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 (じすべり, ji-suberi), 山崩れ (やまくずれ, yama-kuzure), 山津波 (やまつなみ, yama-tsunami), 土砂崩れ (どしゃくずれ, dosha-kuzure)
Kazakh: жылжыма (jıljıma), көшкін (kk) (köşkin)
Korean: 산사태 (ko) (sansatae) (山沙汰 (ko))

Ladin: roa f
Lao: ດິນເກື່ອນ (din kư̄an)
Malay: tanah runtuh
Maori: horo, horowhenua
Norwegian: steinras n
Bokmål: jordras n, jordskred n

Nynorsk: jordras n, jordskred n
Pohnpeian: engk
Polish: osuwisko (pl) n
Portuguese: deslizamento m, desabamento m, derrocada 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: о̀дрон m, о̀сулина f

Roman: 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
Swedish: jordskred (sv) n
Tagalog: guho ng lupa, guhunlupa
Thai: ดินถล่ม, แผ่นดินถล่ม
Tibetan: རྫ་རྡོ (rdza rdo), ས་རུད (sa rud)
Ukrainian: о́повзень m (ópovzenʹ), обва́л m (obvál), зсув (uk) m (zsuv)
Uzbek: oʻpirilish (uz), siljish (uz), koʻchish
Vietnamese: đất trượt
Welsh: tirlithriad m, cwymp tir m

vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority

Finnish: äänivyöry (fi)
German: erdrutschartiger Sieg, überwältigender Sieg

Japanese: 地滑り的勝利 (じすべりてきしょうり, jisuberi-teki shōri)

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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