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Preferred term

avalanche

Definition

  • [GEMET] A fall or slide of a large mass, as of snow or rock, down a mountainside.

Broader concept

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • انهيار (جليدي أو صخري)

Bulgarian

  • Лавина, срутване

Croatian

  • lavina

Czech

  • lavina

Danish

  • lavine

Dutch

  • lawine

Estonian

  • laviin, lumelaviin

Finnish

  • lumivyöry, maavyöry, kivivyöry

French

  • avalanche

German

  • Lawine

Greek

  • χιονοστιβάδα

Hungarian

  • lavina

Italian

  • valanga

Latvian

  • lavīna

Lithuanian

  • lavina

Norwegian

  • snøskred

Polish

  • lawina

Portuguese

  • avalanches

Romanian

  • avalanşă

Slovak

  • lavína

Slovenian

  • plaz

Spanish

  • aludes

Swedish

  • lavin

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/10

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