Lightning

Noun

 * 1) The flash of light caused by the discharge of atmospheric electrical charge.
 * 2) The discharge of atmospheric electrical charge itself.
 * 3)  Anything that moves very fast.

Adjective

 * 1) Extremely fast or sudden.
 * 2) Moving at the speed of lightning.

Verb

 * 1)  To produce lightning.

Adjectives for Lightning
reverberating; restless; glaring; keener; livid; harmless; nimble; diffused; yoked; indirect; vivid; deadly; blind; parching; internal; wicked; uncommunicated; consuming; volcanic; unleashed; lovelier; poisonous; irreversible; silent; mercy-winged; congregated; artificial; naked; sheet; baleful; arrowy;

Verbs for Lightning
—bolts; —chars; —cleaves; —dances; —-darts; —demolishes; —destroys; —flames; —flashes; —flickers; —glows; —ignites; — illumines; —illuminates; —plays; —rends; —reveals; —streaks; —terrifies; —wreaks; —zigzags.

Derived terms
ball lightning; Jewish lightning; greased lightning; lightning bug; lightning bolt; lightning conductor; lightning detector; lightning fast; lightning rod; lightning round; lightning strike; sheet lightning

Thesaurus
thunder, blue streak, bolt, bolt of lightning, cannonball, chain lightning, courser, dark lightning, dart, eagle, electricity, express train, fireball, firebolt, flash, flying flame, forked lightning, fulguration, fulmination, gazelle, greased lightning, greyhound, hare, jet plane, levin bolt, light, mercury, oak-cleaving thunderbolts, quicksilver, rocket, scared rabbit, sheet lightning, shot, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, stroke of lightning, swallow, thought, thunderball, thunderbolt, thunderstroke, torrent, wind

Etymology
light(e)n + -ing

Noun

 * Abkhaz: фы
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܒܪܩܐ (barqā, barqo)
 * Hebrew: ברקא (barqā, barqo)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: tximistargi
 * Belarusian: маланка, бліскавіца
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:, светкавица
 * Caddo: kǝhaudíːn-unǝ
 * Catalan: llampec, rellamp
 * Ch'orti': hihƥ
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee:
 * Cheyenne: évóˀhoˀȧseˀha
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, lynglimt
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian: (ŧɵḥɵn)
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Flathead: ʔesuˀwéʧiʔ
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: aratiri
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Interlingua: fulmine, fulgure
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: 稲妻, 雷光,
 * Javanese: geledek
 * Kansa: galéleze
 * Klallam: ƛ̕əmƛ̕əmcínəŋ


 * Korean: 번개 (beongae), 벼락 (byeorak) (for the stroke)
 * Kurdish: بروسکه‌, تریشقه‌
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: zibens
 * Lithuanian: žaibas
 * Malayalam: മിന്നല്‍ (minnal)
 * Mohawk: tewennineˀkarahwanyonˀs
 * Nahuatl: tlapetlānilli, tlapetlantli
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: lynglimt, blink
 * O'odham:
 * Ojibwe: wazimog, waasamowin
 * Old Church Slavonic: блискъ (bliskŭ)
 * Old High German: blic
 * Old Norse: leiptr
 * Old Saxon: bliksmo
 * Persian: (âzaraxš),  (sâeqe)
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: chametg, cametg, tgametg, sajetta
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dealanach
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: муња
 * Roman: munja, bljesak
 * Seri: æɑmxʷ; iʃɑ́ːʔoχ inóɸtx
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: upę́lena, phàc’íene
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: మెరుపు (merupu)
 * Thracian: zbel
 * Tocharian A: wasir
 * Tocharian B: wasir
 * Tupinambá: tupã beraba
 * Turkish:, şimşek
 * Ukrainian: блискавка
 * Venetian:
 * Welsh: mellt, lluched
 * !Xóõ: ʻmála, ǁnáa
 * Yiddish:


 * Basque: tximista
 * Catalan: llamp
 * Danish:, lynnedslag
 * Finnish:, salamanisku
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: zibens
 * Navajo:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romansch: chametg, cametg, tgametg, sajetta
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: విడుదల