rain oor Xhosa

rain

/reɪn/ Verb, werkwoord, naamwoord

Condensed water falling from a cloud.

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Imvula

liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated

The manicured lawns and flower beds glistened from a predawn rain.
Imvula eyayisandul’ ukuna ngaloo ntseni yashiya ingca echetywe kakuhle neentyatyambo ezilapho zisithi ndijonge.

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condensed water from a cloud

Nimbostratus gives continuous rain, whereby cumulonimbus gives showers.
Amafu aluzizi azingqimba abuntwentwe anika imvula engaphelujo, njengokuba iingqimba zamafu anobunzima enika emkhwitsho.

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For many years rain fell regularly, the crops grew abundantly and there was plenty of food for everyone.
Iminyaka emininzi imvula yayisina rhoqo, izityalo zikhula ngokwaneleyo kangangokuba kwakukho ukutya okuninzi kuloo lali.

On arrival in Bombay, they were greeted by the monsoon rains.
Besakufika eBombay, bamkelwa ziimvula ezinkulu ezikhatshwa ngumoya.

His father probably told him how important rain is for the land.
Uyise usenokuba wamchazela ngokubaluleka kwemvula.

Some skeptics have argued that all the moisture in the atmosphere would cause only a few inches of global rain.
Bambi abagxeki baye bathi konke ukufuma okusemoyeni bekuya kubangela nje kuphela iisentimitha ezimbalwa zemvula yehlabathi lonke.

The Hebrew and Greek words for rain appear in the Bible more than one hundred times.
Amagama esiHebhere nawesiGrike aguqulelwe ngokuthi imvula avela izihlandlo ezilikhulu eBhayibhileni.

Jehovah kindly “makes his sun rise upon wicked people and good and makes it rain upon righteous people and unrighteous.”
Ngobubele uYehova ‘ulenza ilanga lakhe liphume kubantu abangendawo nabalungileyo nemvula uyinisa kubantu abangamalungisa nabangengomalungisa.’

Because lots of rain falls at that time of year, the river was very full just a few minutes before.
Ngenxa yokuba ngelo xesha lonyaka imvula ina ngamandla, umlambo wawuzele uphuphuma kwimizuzu nje embalwa ngaphambi koko.

However, the rains came down with the release of the New World Translation in Tsonga.”
Kodwa iimvula zagaleleka mhla kwakhutshwa INguqulelo Yehlabathi Elitsha ngesiTsonga.”

Two special pioneers in a very isolated region spent two weeks on their bicycles to travel more than 450 miles [700 km] through deep sand and rain forest.
Oovulindlela abakhethekileyo ababini abahlala kummandla okwanti bachitha iiveki ezimbini behamba ngeebhayisikile umgama ongaphezu kweekhilomitha ezingama-700 entlabathini nakumahlathi ashinyeneyo.

They reached Borgarnes four days later, cycling through sleet, rain, and gusts of wind up to 70 miles per hour [110 km/hr].
Bafika eBorgarnes kwiintsuku ezine kamva, behamba ngeebhayisikile likhithika kusina yaye kukho umoya onesantya esingangeekhilomitha ezili-110 ngeyure.

For example, one Bible was run over by a car, another was left out in the rain overnight, and another was submerged in the floodwaters of a hurricane.
Ngokomzekelo, enye iBhayibhile yanyathelwa yimoto, enye yashiywa emvuleni ngempazamo ubusuku bonke yaza enye yatshona emanzini.

If he predicted rain, would you carry an umbrella?
Ukuba uthi imvula iza kuna, ngaba ubuya kuphatha iambrela xa uhamba?

That being so, what hope is there for conserving the immense diversity of life that is found in tropical rain forests?
Ekubeni kunjalo, ngaba likho ithemba ngezinto ezahlukahlukeneyo eziphila kumahlathi ashinyeneyo?

The early rains had begun to soften the soil, making it possible to do plowing, followed by sowing.
Iimvula zokuqala sele ziqalisile ukuvundisa umhlaba, ukuze ulungele ukulinywa, kuze kulandele ukuhlwayela.

The settlement of mosquito-infested rain-forest areas has stirred an outbreak of malaria in Brazil.
Abantu abahlala kwimimandla eneengcongconi ezininzi enamahlathi emvula ngabo ababangele ukwanda kwesifo seengcongconi eBrazil.

“And,” said Jesus, “the rain poured down and the floods came and the winds blew and lashed against that house, but it did not cave in, for it had been founded upon the rock-mass.”
Yaye uYesu wathi, “yagaleleka imvula, zafika nezikhukula, yavuthuza nemimoya, yabetha kuloo ndlu, kodwa ayizange idilike, kuba yayisekwe phezu kolwalwa.”

Witness volunteers from Haiti and abroad designed and built more than 1,700 temporary dwellings to provide shelter from the rain and a measure of security for Witness families whose homes had been destroyed.
Amatshantliziyo angamaNgqina aseHaiti nasuka kwamanye amazwe akha izindlu zokwexeshana ezingaphezu kwe-1 700 ukuze akhusele iintsapho zamaNgqina awayedilikelwe zizindlu, kwimvula nakwezinye izinto.

We are only now beginning to appreciate how strange and splendid it is, how it catches the breath, the loveliest object afloat around the sun, enclosed in its own blue bubble of atmosphere, manufacturing and breathing its own oxygen, fixing its own nitrogen from the air into its own soil, generating its own weather at the surface of its rain forests, constructing its own carapace from living parts: chalk cliffs, coral reefs, fossils from earlier forms of life now covered by layers of new life meshed together around the globe.”
Kukhona ngoku siqalayo ukuyiqonda indlela omangalisa nomhle ngayo, indlela ochukumisa ngayo, uyingqukuva ebukekayo ejikeleza ilanga, ethiwe wambu ngesigqubuthelo esiluhlaza esingumoya ojikeleze umhlaba, uvelisa uze uphefumle ioksijen yawo, uzilungeselela ngokwawo initrojen uyisusa emoyeni uyithumele kumhlaba wawo, uyilawula ngokwawo imozulu ngamahlathi emvula, uzenzela uqweqwe ngezinto eziphilayo: amawa etshokwe, iingqaqa zekorale, izinto ezaziphila mandulo ngoku ezigqunywe ngumaleko wezinto ezintsha eziphilayo ezizalise umhlaba wonke.”

In the tropical rain forests of New Guinea and northern Australia, the paradise kingfisher commonly excavates a hole in a termite nest.
Kumahlathi ashinyeneyo aseNew Guinea nakumntla-ntshona weOstreliya uxomoyi obizwa ngokuba yiparadise kingfisher udla ngokumba umngxuma kwindlwane yeentubi.

“What if the rain continues during the convention?” everyone wondered.
Wonk’ umntu wayezibuza oku: “Siza kuthini ukuba le mvula iyaqhubeka isina nasebudeni bendibano?

Airborne Gardeners of the Tropical Rain Forest
Abalimi Ababhabhayo Abakumahlathi Ashinyeneyo

A few months later, torrential rains and avalanches caused one of the worst natural disasters in Venezuela’s history.
Kwiinyanga ezimbalwa kamva, elaseVenezuela lagutyungelwa zizandyondyo zemvula nokuwa kweenduli zekhephu ezintabeni nto leyo eyabangela intlekele engazange ibekho ngaphambili kweli lizwe.

For example, when the Babylonians and the Medes came against the city of Nineveh in 632 B.C.E., heavy rains caused the Tigris River to overflow, collapsing a portion of the city’s impenetrable walls.
Ngokomzekelo, xa amaBhabhiloni namaMedi ahlasela isixeko saseNineve ngo-632 B.C.E., izantyalantyala zemvula zazalisa uMlambo iTigris, waza wakhukulisa inxalenye yodonga lweso sixeko olwalubonakala luluqilima.

It started to rain, and we could not travel through the mud.
Kwaqalisa ukuna, yaye sasingenakuhamba eludakeni.

For that matter, “he makes his sun rise upon wicked people and good and makes it rain upon righteous people and unrighteous.”
Kungeso sizathu, “ilanga lakhe elenza liphume phezu kwabakhohlakeleyo nabalungileyo; nemvula eyinisa phezu kwabalungisayo nabangalungisiyo.”