megatsunami

See also: mégatsunami

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ tsunami.

Pronunciation

enPR: mega-tso͞o-nä'mi, IPA^(key): /mɛɡə-tsuːˈnɑːmi/
enPR: mega-so͞o-nä'mi, IPA^(key): /mɛɡə-suːˈnɑːmi/

Noun

megatsunami (plural megatsunamis or megatsunami)

(informal, often used by journalists) A very large tsunami.
A tsunami caused by an avalanche or landslide falling into an enclosed body water, causing very high water levels, that washes onto land.

Translations

a very large tsunami

Bulgarian: мегацунами n (megacunámi)
Catalan: megatsunami m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大海嘯, 大海啸 (dàhǎixiào)
Finnish: megatsunami
French: mégatsunami (fr) m
German: Megatsunami m
Hungarian: megacunami

Italian: megatsunami m
Japanese: 大津波 (おおつなみ, ōtsunami)
Portuguese: megatsunami m
Russian: мегацуна́ми n (megacunámi)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мегацунами m

Roman: megacunami m
Spanish: megatsunami m

See also

Portuguese

Noun

megatsunami m (plural megatsunamis)

megatsunami (a very large tsunami)

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