# snow
## English
### Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English snaw, snou, snow (“snow; accumulation of snow; snowfall; snowstorm; whiteness”), from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw (“snow”), from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).
The verb is derived from Middle English snouen (“to snow; (figurative) to shower”), from snou, snow (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Displaced Old English snīwan, whence English snew (obsolete).
Verb sense 2.3.2 (“to convince or hoodwink (someone)”) probably refers to a person being blinded or confused by a snowstorm.
* Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”) (dialectal)
* Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha)
* Danish sne (“snow”)
* Dutch sneeuw (“snow”)
* German Schnee (“snow”)
* Icelandic snjór (“snow”)
* Latin nix (“snow”)
* Norwegian snø (“snow”)
* Russian снег (sneg)
* Sanskrit स्नेह (snéha, “oil, grease”)
* Scots snaw (“snow”)
* Swedish snö (“snow”)
* West Frisian snie (“snow”)

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: snō, IPA: /snəʊ/, [snəʊ̯]
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General American) enPR: snō, IPA: /snoʊ/, [snoʊ̯]
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊ

#### Noun

snow (countable and uncountable, plural snows)
* (uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
** 1546, John Heywood, chapter IV, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood. […], London: George Bell and Sons, […], published 1874, →OCLC, part II, page 107:Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.The spelling has been modernized.
** c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], page 28, column 1:Didſt thou but knovv the inly touch of Loue, / Thou vvouldſt as ſoone goe kindle fire vvith ſnovv / As ſeeke to quench the fire of Loue vvith vvords.
** c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], signature M2, verso:And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey fellovv,? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: […]
** 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “[Canaria, Teneriffa]”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 4:The top of this Peake [Teide on Tenerife] or Pyramide […] by reaſon of their rare height and affinitie vvith the middle Aerie Region are ſeldome vvithout Snovv.
** 1668, John Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay, London: […] [Thomas Newcombe] for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, page 14:He [Ben Jonson] vvas not onely a profeſſed Imitator of Horace, but a learned Plagiary of all the others; you track him every vvhere in their Snovv: […]A figurative use.
** 1730, James Thomson, “Autumn. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons.”, in The Seasons, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 167, lines 857–859:Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […]
** 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Meteors, and Such Appearances as Result from a Combination of the Elements”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume I, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 347:Some vapours that aſcend to great heights, vvill be frozen into ſnovv; […]
** 1817 December (indicated as 1818), Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, “Canto First”, in Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. […], London: […] [F]or Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, […]; and C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; by B[uchanan] M‘Millan, […], →OCLC, stanza LIV, page 28:A mighty Senate;—some, whose white hair shone / Like mountain snow, mild, beautiful, and blind.
** 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 4:No wind that blew was bitterer than he [Ebenezer Scrooge], no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
** 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “Brown Patronus”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 2nd, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 158:When one has been a year at Oxford, there isn't much snow left to soil; […]
** 1928 October 11, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “In which a House is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore”, in The House at Pooh Corner, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 3–4:The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing round in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest, and sometimes the place was Pooh's nose and sometimes it wasn't, and in a little while Piglet was wearing a white muffler round his neck and feeling more snowy behind the ears than he had ever felt before.
** 1942 May 29 (date recorded), Irving Berlin (lyrics and music), “White Christmas”, performed by Bing Crosby, New York, N.Y.: Decca Records, published 30 July 1942, →OCLC:I'm dreaming of a white Christmas / Just like the ones I used to know / Where the tree tops glisten / And children listen / To hear sleigh bells in the snow
** 1950 September 8 (date recorded), Jay Livingston, Ray Evans (lyrics and music), “Silver Bells […]”, performed by Bing Crosby and Carol Richards, New York, N.Y.: Decca Records, published October 1950, →OCLC:Hear the snow crunch, see the kids bunch / This is Santa's big scene / And above all the bustle you'll hear / Silver bells […]
** 1994 August (date recorded), Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff (lyrics and music), “All I Want for Christmas is You”, in Merry Christmas, performed by Mariah Carey, Nashville, Tenn.: Columbia Records, published 29 October 1994, →OCLC:Oh, I won't ask for much this Christmas / I won't even wish for snow / I'm just gonna keep on waiting / Underneath the mistletoe
** 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 261:TRUE FACT: On June 8, 1995, Glacier National Park was closed because of too much snow.
** (countable) An instance of the falling of snow (sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
    We have had several heavy snows this year.
*** c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], signature [A3], verso, lines 105–107:At Chriſtmas I no more deſire a Roſe, / Then vviſh a Snovv in Mayes nevv fangled ſhovves: / But like of each thing that in ſeaſon grovves.
*** 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 47, lines 211–212:[H]ovv calm he ſits at eaſe, / Mid ſnovvs of paper, and fierce hail of peaſe?A figurative use.
*** 1817 December (indicated as 1818), Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, “Canto Ninth”, in Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. […], London: […] [F]or Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, […]; and C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; by B[uchanan] M‘Millan, […], →OCLC, stanza XXI, page 203:The blasts of autumn drive the winged seeds / Over the earth,—next come the snows, and rain, / And frosts, and storms, which dreary winter leads / Out of his Scythian cave, a savage train; […]
*** 1855, Charles Kingsley, “What Befel at La Guayra”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 301:[G]reat white tassels, swinging from every tree in the breeze which swept down the glade, tossed in their faces a fragrant snow of blossoms, and glittering drops of perfumed dew.A figurative use.
** (countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
*** 1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Earlier Poems.] Burial of the Minnisink.”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 53:They sang, that by his native bowers / He stood, in the last moon of flowers, / And thirty snows had not yet shed / Their glory on the warrior's head; […]
*** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXII, page 37:The path by which we twain did go, / Which led by tracts that pleased us well, / Thro' four sweet years arose and fell, / From flower to flower, from snow to snow: […]
** (countable) An accumulation or spread of snow.
*** 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 97, lines 223–226:VVhen VVinter ſhuts the Seas, and fleecy Snovvs / Make Houſes vvhite, ſhe to the Merchant goes: / Rich Cryſtals of the Rock She takes up there, / Huge Agat Vaſes, and old China VVare: […]
*** 1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Ferrara, Ravenna, Rimini”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 125:This River [the Rubicon] is not ſo contemptible as it is generally repreſented, and vvas much increas'd by the melting of the Snovvs vvhen [Julius] Cæſar paſs'd it, according to Lucan.
*** 1817 December (indicated as 1818), Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, “Canto Second”, in Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. […], London: […] [F]or Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, […]; and C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; by B[uchanan] M‘Millan, […], →OCLC, stanza XIV, page 39:It must be so—I will arise and waken / The multitude, and like a sulphurous hill [volcano], / Which on a sudden from its snows has shaken / The swoon of ages, it shall burst and fill / The world with cleansing fire: […]
*** 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 159:[H]is mind at least will defy your influence, as the snows of that Mount Blanc which we saw together, shrink not under the heat of the summer sun.
*** 1877 September 14, Robert Browning, “La Saisiaz”, in La Saisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisic, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, page 24:[I]t well may happen yonder, where the far snows blanch / Mute Mont Blanc, that who stands near them sees and hears an avalanche,— […]
* Something resembling snow (sense 1) in appearance or color.
** (countable, cooking) A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
    apple snow    lemon snow
** (uncountable)
*** The white color of snow.
    snow:
**** 1827, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume I (The Highland Widow), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 237:The daughters of the land were beautiful, with blue eyes and fair hair, and bosoms of snow, […]
*** (figurative) Clusters of white flowers.
**** 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Workshop”, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, pages 1–2:A scent of pine-wood from a tent-like pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window opposite; […]
*** (figurative) The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference.
    Synonym: shash
    Near-synonym: static
**** 1977, John Cheever, Falconer (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 209:I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this set in for a new one. They don't make them like this anymore, he said. He got rid of the snow and all he charged me was two dollars.
*** (figurative) Sea foam; sea spray.
*** (figurative) Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.
**** 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Relates How Francis, Fourth Viscount, Arrives at Castlewood”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume I, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, pages 53–54:Indeed, to the laſt days of her life, my Lady Viſcounteſs had the comfort of fancying herſelf beautiful, and perſiſted in blooming up to the very midſt of winter, painting roſes on her cheeks long after their natural ſeaſon, and attiring herſelf like ſummer though her head was covered with ſnow.
*** (figurative, poetic) White marble.
**** 1848, Philip James Bailey, “Proëm”, in Festus: A Poem, 3rd edition, London: William Pickering, →OCLC, page vii:Ere now marmoreal floods had spread their couch / Of perdurable snow, or granite wrought / Its skyward impulse from earth's hearth of fire / Up to insanest heights.
*** (figurative, slang) Money, especially silver coins.
*** (figurative, slang, dated) White linen which has been washed.
*** (chemistry) Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.
**** 2008, Neal Asher, “Alien Archaeology”, in The Gabble and Other Stories, London: Tor, →ISBN, page 144:Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂ snow towards the gates of the Arena.
*** (marine biology) Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”).
**** 2012, Caspar Henderson, “Sea Butterfly”, in The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary, 1st American edition, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, published 2013, →ISBN, marginal note, page 286:Lower down, in the 95 per cent of the ocean where light does not penetrate, many living things feed on ‘marine snow’, the steady drizzle of particles of dead matter, whitish in colour, gradually sinking from the euphotic zone above. Other animals then feed on the ‘snow’ eaters.
*** (originally US, slang) Cocaine; also (less frequently), heroin or morphine.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cocaine
**** 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter X, in Strong Poison, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published April 1967, →ISBN, page 85:Aren’t I telling you that’s why I didn’t taste it? […] Besides, if it wasn’t poison, it might be ‘snow’ or something.

##### Derived terms

* abominable snow monster
* acid snow
* apple snow
* artificial snow
* as pure as the driven snow, pure as the driven snow
* as white as snow, white as snow
* blowing snow
* carbon dioxide snow
* carbon dioxide snow cleaning
* coco snow
* come rain or snow
* cooking snow
* corn snow
* couldn't piss a hole in the snow
* deadman snow anchor
* drifting snow
* driven snow
* dry snow
* European snow vole
* evening-snow
* firn snow
* Florida snow
* frost snow
* glory-of-the-snow
* granular snow
* green snow
* Hawaiian snow
* hominy snow
* lake-effect snow
* laser snow
* marine snow
* mountain snow
* new snow
* old snow
* onion snow
* packing snow
* pink snow
* popcorn snow
* powder snow
* pure as driven snow
* red snow
* robin snow
* roll of snow
* sand snow
* sell snow to Eskimos
* Sno-cat
* Snomobile, snowmobile
* snow ablation
* snow accumulation
* snow advisory
* snow alga
* snow algae
* snow angel
* snow-apple, snow apple
* snowball
* snowbank
* snow banner
* Snowbasin
* snow bear
* snowbell
* snow-belt
* snowberry
* snow bike
* snowbiking
* snow bird, snow-bird, snowbird
* snowblade
* snowblader
* snowblading
* snow-blanket
* snowblindness, snow blindness
* snowblind, snow-blind
* snowblink. snow-blink
* snow-blossom
* snowblower, snow blower
* snowblow, snow-blow
* SnowBMX
* snowboarder
* snowboarding
* snowboard, snow board
* snow bomb
* snowboot
* snowbound
* snowbow
* Snow Bowl
* snow box
* snow brake
* snowbreak
* snow bridge
* snow-broo, snow-bru
* snow-broth
* snowbrush
* snow-bucking
* snow bunny
* snow bunting
* snowburn
* snowbush, snow bush
* snow-camel
* snow cannon
* snow-capped, snow-capt
* snowcap, snow cap
* snow castle
* snowcat
* snow catch
* snow cave
* Snowcem, snowcem
* snow chain
* snowchild
* snow chukor
* snow-clad
* snow cleaning
* snow climate
* snowclone
* snow cloud
* snowcock, snow cock
* snow coke
* snow-cold
* snow concrete
* snow cone
* snow conjunctivitis
* snow cornice
* snow course
* snow cover
* snow-covered
* snow crab (Cionoecetes)
* snow-craft
* snow cream
* Snow Creek Falls
* snowcreep, snow creep
* Snowcrest
* snow-crete
* snowcrete
* snow-cripple
* snow-crowned
* snow cruiser
* snow-cruising
* snow crust
* snow crystal
* snow currant
* snow daisy
* snow day
* snowdeck
* snowdeep
* snow density
* snow depth
* snow devil
* snowdog
* snow donut, snow doughnut
* snowdrift, snow drift
* snowdrop
* snow-dropper
* snow-dropping
* snow-dusted
* snow ear, snow ear fungus
* snow-eater
* snow emergency
* snow-eyes
* snowfall
* snow farming
* snow-fed
* snow fence
* snow fencing
* snow festival
* snowfield
* snow figure
* snow-finch, snow finch
* snow-fire
* snow-fish
* snowflake, snow-flake
* snow flea
* snowfleck, snow-fleck, snow fleck, snowflick
* snowflight, snow-flight
* snow flood
* snowflower, snow flower
* snow fluke
* snow flurry
* snow fly
* snowfolk
* snow-foot
* snow forest climate
* snow fort
* snow-fowl
* snow fox
* snow-free
* snow fungus
* snow garland
* snow gate
* snow-gatherer
* snow gauge
* snow-gem
* snow-generating level
* snow geyser
* snow globe
* snow glory
* snow gnat
* snow-goggles, snow goggles
* snow golf
* snow goose
* snow grains
* snow grass
* snow grave
* snow groomer
* snow grooming
* snow-grouse
* snow guard
* snow gum
* snow gun
* snow-hammer
* snow hedge
* snow-hen
* Snow Hill
* snow-hole
* snowhorse
* snowhouse, snow house
* snow-how
* snow-ice
* snow-in-harvest
* snow insect
* snow-in-summer
* snowish
* Snow Island
* snow-job, snow job
* snow kayaking
* snowkid
* snowkiting
* snow knife
* snowlady
* Snow Lake
* snow-lark
* snow-leopard, snow leopard
* snowless
* snow level
* snowlike, snow-like
* snow lily
* snow-limit
* snowline, snow line
* snow lion
* snow load
* snow lotus
* snowmachine, snow machine
* snow-mageddon
* snowmaker, snow-maker
* snowmaking, snow-making
* snowman
* snow management
* snowmanship
* snow mat
* snow melon
* snowmelt, snow melt
* snow meow
* snow-merchant
* snow metamorphism
* snow mew
* snow mist
* snow mold, snow mould
* snow monkey
* snow monster
* snow moon
* snow morel
* SnowMoto
* snow mound
* Snow Mountain
* snow mouse
* snow mushroom
* snow-on-the-mountain, snow on the mountain
* snow on the mountaintop, snow on the mountain top
* snow on the roof
* snow on the rooftop, snow on the roof top
* snow orchid
* snow-owl
* snowpack
* snow pallets
* snow-panther, snow panther
* snow pants
* snow park
* snow partridge
* snow patch
* snow pea
* snow pear
* snow pellets
* snow pentathlon
* snowperson
* snow petrel
* snow pheasant
* snow pigeon
* snow pile
* snow pillow
* snowplane, snow plane
* snow plant
* snow plod
* snowplough, snow-plough, snow plough, snowplow, snow plow
* snow plume
* snow pole
* snow poppy
* snow-porch, snow porch
* snow pudding
* snow puff mushroom
* snow quail
* snowquake
* snow quality
* snow quartz
* snow queen, Snow Queen
* snow racer
* snow-raking
* snow report
* snowrider
* snow ring
* snow ripple
* snow roller
* snow-rose, snow rose
* snow sample
* snow sampler
* snow saw
* snow scale
* snowscape
* snow scene
* snow scoop
* snow scooter
* snow sculpture
* snow seals
* snowshed, snow-shed, snow shed
* snow sheep (Ovis nivicola)
* snow-sheet
* Snowshill
* Snow Shoe
* snowshoe, snow-shoe, snow shoe
* snow shovel
* snowshower, snow shower
* snowskating
* snow-skiing
* snow skink
* snow sky
* snow sled shovel
* snow-sleep
* snowslide
* snowslip, snow-slip
* snow smoke
* snow-snake, snow snake
* snow-sparrow
* snow-sports
* snowspout
* snowsquall, snow squall
* snow stage
* snow stake
* snowstalker
* snow-stone
* snowstorm
* snowsuit
* snowsurfing
* snow survey
* snow-tan
* snow-thrower, snow thrower
* snow thunderstorm
* snow-time
* snow tire, snow tyre
* Snowtown
* snow trails
* snow train
* snow tremor
* snow trillium (Trillium nivale)
* Snowtrooper
* snow tube
* snow tubing
* Snowville
* snow-water, snow water
* snow weasel
* snow well
* snow-white, snow white
* snow-wolf
* snowwoman
* snow-worm
* snow-wreath
* snowy
* spring snow
* sugar-on-snow, sugar on snow
* tapioca snow
* there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley
* there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace
* thundersnow
* visual snow
* walk in the snow
* watermelon snow
* water snow
* weeping snow gum
* wet snow
* where are the snows of yesteryear
* white as driven snow, white as the driven snow
* white snow
* wild snow
* yellow snow

##### Translations

Abaza: сы (sə)
Abkhaz: асы (asə), асы (asə)
Afrikaans: sneeu (af)
Ainu: ウパㇱ (upas)
Albanian: borë (sq) f
Aleut: qaniigix
American Sign Language: 5@SideForeheadhigh-PalmDown-5@SideForeheadhigh-PalmDown SlowWiggle-SlowWiggle 5@SideTrunkhigh-Palmdown-5@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown
Amharic: የበረዶ ብናኝ (yäbärädo bənañ)
Andi: анзи (anzi)
Arabic: ثَلْج (ar) m (ṯalj)
Egyptian Arabic: تلج m (talg)
Hijazi Arabic: ثلج m (talj)
Moroccan Arabic: تلج m (talj)
Aragonese: nieu (an)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܲܠܓܵܐ m (tālga)
Hebrew: תלגא m (talgā’)
Syriac: ܬܠܓܐ m (talgā’)
Armenian: ձյուն (hy) (jyun)
Old Armenian: ձիւն (jiwn)
Aromanian: neao (roa-rup), neauã f
Assamese: বৰফ (boroph)
Asturian: ñeve (ast)
Avar: гӏазу (ʻazu)
Aymara: khunu (ay)
Azerbaijani: qar (az)
Bakhtiari: برف (barf)
Baluchi: برپ (barp), برف (barf)
Bashkir: ҡар (qar)
Basque: elur (eu)
Bats: ლავ (lav)
Belarusian: снег (be) m (snjeh), сьнег m (sʹnjeh) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: বরফ (bn) (boroph)
Bhojpuri: please add this translation if you can
Bihari: please add this translation if you can
Bikol Central: nyebe
Bokar: tapam
Breton: erc'h (br) m
Brunei Malay: salji
Budukh: йиз (jiz)
Bulgarian: сняг (bg) m (snjag)
Burmese: နှင်း (my) (hnang:) (generic term for mist, dew, snow, frost)
Buryat: саһан (sahan)
Carpathian Rusyn: снїг m (snjih)
Catalan: neu (ca) f
Cebuano: nyebe
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴷⴼⵍ m (adfl)
Chechen: ло (lo)
Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏥ (unatsi)
Cheyenne: hésta'se
Chickasaw: okti'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 雪 (yue) (syut$^3$)
Dungan: щүә (xüə)
Eastern Min: 雪 (siók)
Hakka: 雪 (siet)
Hokkien: 雪 (seh, serh, soat)
Mandarin: 雪 (zh) (xuě)
Northern Min: please add this translation if you can
Wu: 雪 ($^7$shiq)
Chukchi: ыʼԓьыԓ (yʼḷʹyḷ)
Chuvash: юр (jur)
Coptic:
Bohairic: ⲭⲓⲱⲛ m (khiōn)
Sahidic: ⲭⲓⲱⲛ m (khiōn)
Cornish: ergh m
Corsican: neve (co)
Crimean Tatar: qar
Czech: sníh (cs) m
Dalmatian: nai f
Danish: sne (da) c
Dhivehi: ސްނޯ (dv) (snō)
Dogrib: zhah
Dolgan: каар
Dutch: sneeuw (nl) m
Eastern Khanty: љоњᲊ (ljonjtj)
Eastern Mari: лум (lum)
Egyptian: (sꜣrꜣqw m)
Elfdalian: sniųo m
Esperanto: neĝo (eo)
Estonian: lumi (et)
Even: емсамла̄н (jemsamlān)
Evenki: иманна (imanna)
Extremaduran: ñevi
Faroese: kavi (fo) m, (archaic) snjógvur m
Finnish: lumi (fi)
French: neige (fr) f
Friulian: nêf f, nêv f
Galician: neve (gl) f
Georgian: თოვლი (tovli)
German: Schnee (de) m
Godoberi: анзи
Gothic: 𐍃𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 m (snaiws)
Greek: χιόνι (el) n (chióni)
Ancient: χιών f (khiṓn)
Greenlandic: aput
Guaraní: yrypy'a
Gujarati: બરફ (baraph), હિમ (gu) (him), તુષાર (tuṣār)
Haida: s'aahling̱aaw (wet snow)
Haitian Creole: nèj
Halkomelem: yíq (falling), máqa (on ground)
Vancouver Island: meqe' (on ground)
Harsusi: please add this translation if you can
Hausa: ƙànƙáráa
Hawaiian: hau
Hebrew: שֶׁלֶג (he) m (shéleg)
Hiligaynon: niyebe
Hindi: बर्फ़ (hi) f (barf), हिमपात (hi) (himpāt)
Hopi: nuva
Hungarian: hó (hu)
Hunsrik: Schnee m
Hunzib: әᵸз (ə̃z)
Icelandic: snjór (is) m, snær (is) m, fönn (is) f
Ido: nivo (io)
Igbo: sinoo
Indonesian: salju (id)
Ingrian: lumi
Ingush: лоа (loa)
Interlingua: nive
Inuktitut: ᐊᐳᑦ (apot) (snow in general), ᒪᐅᔭ (maoya) (deep soft snow)
Irish: sneachta (ga) m
Istro-Romanian: ne f
Italian: neve (it) f
Japanese: 雪 (ja) (ゆき, yuki)
Javanese: ꦱꦭ꧀ꦗꦸ (jv) (salju)
Jeju: 눈 (nun)
Jurchen: imanggi
Kabuverdianu: nevi
Kabyle: adfel m
Kaki Ae: sno
Kalmyk: цасн (tsasn)
Kannada: ಅಯ್ಕಿಲ್ (kn) (aykil), ಹಿಮ (kn) (hima)
Kapampangan: niebi, yelu
Karachay-Balkar: къар (qar)
Karelian: lumi
Kashmiri: شیٖن (ks) (śīn)
Kashubian: snieg
Kavalan: suRena
Kazakh: қар (kk) (qar)
Khmer: ព្រិល (km) (prɨl), ហិមៈ (km) (hemĕəʼ)
Khvarshi: иᵸса (ĩsa)
Komi-Permyak: лым (lym)
Korean: 눈 (ko) (nun)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەفر (befr)
Laki: ڤەر (ku) (ver)
Northern Kurdish: berf (ku) f, befr (ku) f
Southern Kurdish: وەفر (wefr)
Kwak'wala: k̕wista̱'yala (falling), na'yi (on ground)
Kyrgyz: кар (ky) (kar)
Ladakhi: ཁ (kha)
Ladin: nëif f
Ladino: inyeve f, nieve f
Lakota: wá
Lao: ຫິມະ (lo) (hi ma), ນ້ຳໝອກ (nam mǭk)
Latgalian: snīgs m
Latin: nix (la) f
Latvian: sniegs (lv) m
Laz: mturi
Lezgi: жиз (žiz)
Lithuanian: sniegas (lt) m
Livonian: lum
Lombard: nev (lmo) m
Low German: Snee m
Lü: ᦵᦖᧀᦉᦏᦱᧇ (ṁoeyṡṫhaab)
Luhya: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: Schnéi (lb) m
Macedonian: снег (mk) m (sneg)
Magahi: please add this translation if you can
Maithili: please add this translation if you can
Malagasy: oram-panala (mg)
Malay: salji (ms)
Malayalam: മഞ്ഞ് (ml) (maññŭ)
Maltese: borra m, silġ f
Manchu: ᠨᡳᠮᠠᠩᡤᡳ (nimanggi)
Manx: sniaghtey m
Maori: huka (mi), hukarere, puaheiri
Maranao: ilo
Marathi: बर्फ (barpha)
Mazanderani: ورف (varf)
Mehri: please add this translation if you can
Middle English: snow
Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭯𐭫 (ʿpl /⁠wafr⁠/)
Mingrelian: თირი (tiri)
Mirandese: niebe f
Mòcheno: schnea m
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: цас (mn) (cas)
Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠰᠤ (času)
Moore: sa-ko-gĩsdim
Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⴷⴼⵍ m (adfl)
Nahuatl: cepayahuitl
Navajo: zas
Neapolitan: neve
Nepali: हिउँ (hiũ)
Norman: né f
North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) snä n
Northern Mansi: тӯйт (tūjt)
Northern Sami: muohta
Northern Thai: ᩉ᩠ᨾᩮᩥ᩠ᨿᨹᩫ᩠ᨦ (mɤɤy¹.phoŋ¹), ᩉᩥᨾ (hiʔ¹ maʔ⁶)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: snø (no) m, sne (no) m
Nynorsk: snø m
Nuosu: ꃰ (vo)
Occitan: nèu (oc) f
Odia: ତୁଷାର (or) (tushāra)
Ojibwe: goon
Okinawan: 雪 (yuchi)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: снѣгъ m (sněgŭ)
Old English: snāw m
Old Irish: snechtae m
Old Japanese: 雪 (yuki$_1$)
Old Prussian: snaygis
Old Saxon: snēo m
Old Tupi: amanarypy'oka, amanarypy'aka, ro'yrypy'oka, ro'yrypy'aka, ro'ynhemoapysanga, ro'yîukyra
Omaha-Ponca: ma
Oneida: ónyʌte̲’
Oroch: имаса
Ossetian: мит (mit)
Ottoman Turkish: قار (kar), برف (berf), ثلج (selc)
Paiwan: sulja
Pali: hima
Pannonian Rusyn: шнїг m (šnjih)
Pashto: واوره f (wāwra)
Persian:
Dari: بَرْف (barf)
Iranian Persian: بَرْف (barf)
Piedmontese: fiòca f
Plautdietsch: Schnee (nds) m
Polabian: sneg m
Polish: śnieg (pl) m
Portuguese: neve (pt) f
Punjabi: ਬਰਫ਼ (baraf)
Quechua: rit'i, riti, rahu
Rohingya: boróf
Romagnol: nēva f
Romani: iv m, jiv m
Romanian: zăpadă (ro) f, nea (ro) f, omăt (ro) n
Romansch: naiv m, neiv m, nev m
Russian: снег (ru) m (sneg)
S'gaw Karen: မူခိၣ်ဖီ (moo khoh̀ hpaw)
Saanich: ĆIḴ (falling), ṈAḴE (on the ground), ŚEŚIḴOME¸ (fine dry snow)
Sami:
Kildin Sami: вэ̄дз (vēdz)
Samoan: kiona
Samogitian: snėigs m
Sanskrit: हिम (sa) (hima)
Santali: ᱦᱤᱢ (him)
Sardinian: ni, nia, nibe, nive
Scots: snaw
Scottish Gaelic: sneachda m, sneachd m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сне̑г m, сније̑г m, сниг m
Roman: snȇg (sh) m, snijȇg (sh) m, snig m
Shan: မူၺ် (shn) (mǒi)
Sherpa: གའ (ga')
Shona: chando
Shor: қар
Sicilian: nivi (scn) f
Silesian: śniyg m
Sindhi: برف (barfa)
Sinhalese: හිම (si) (hima)
Skolt Sami: muõtt
Slovak: sneh (sk) m
Slovene: snég (sl) m
Somali: baraf (so)
Soqotri: please add this translation if you can
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: sněg m
Upper Sorbian: sněh (hsb) m
Sotho: lehlwa, lehloa
Southern Altai: кар (kar)
Southern Kam: nuil
Spanish: nieve (es) f
Sranan Tongo: karki
Sudovian: snaigas
Sundanese: ᮞᮜ᮪ᮏᮥ (salju)
Svan: მუს (mus)
Swahili: theluji (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: snö (sv) c
Tagalog: niyebe (tl)
Tai Nüa: ᥞᥣᥴ (háa)
Tajik: барф (tg) (barf)
Tamil: பனி (ta) (paṉi)
Tarifit: adfer m
Tatar: кар (tt) (qar)
Telugu: మంచు (te) (mañcu), హిమము (te) (himamu)
Thai: หิมะ (th) (hì-má)
Thao: ulhza
Tibetan: གངས (gangs), ཁ་བ (kha ba)
Tigrinya: ውርጪ (wərč̣i)
Tlingit: dléit
Tok Pisin: sno
Tongan: sinou
Tswana: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: kar (tr), pük (tr)
Turkmen: gar
Tuvan: хар (xar)
Udihe: имаха
Udmurt: лымы (lymy)
Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎍𐎘 (glṯ)
Ukrainian: сніг (uk) m (snih)
Ulch: sịmata
Urdu: بَرْف f (barf)
Uyghur: قار (qar)
Uzbek: qor (uz)
Venetan: nève, neu (vec), nef
Vietnamese: tuyết (vi) (雪)
Vilamovian: śnej m
Volapük: nif (vo)
Võro: lumi
Votic: lumi
Walloon: nive (wa) f, nedje (wa) f, ivier (wa) f
Welsh: eira (cy) m, ôd m
West Frisian: snie (fy)
Western Panjabi: برف (pnb) (brf)
Xhosa: ikhephu class 5/6
Yagnobi: варф (varf)
Yakut: хаар (qaar)
Yámana: panaxa
Yiddish: שניי m (shney)
Yoruba: ìrì dídì
Yup'ik: qanik
Zazaki: vor (diq), vewr (diq), vawr
Zealandic: sneêuw m, sneê (archaic)
Zhuang: nae, siet
Zulu: iqhwa class 5/6 :
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#### Verb

snow (third-person singular simple present snows, present participle snowing, simple past snowed or (dialectal) snew, past participle snowed or (dialectal) snown)
* (intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
    It is snowing.    It started to snow.
** 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio ccclxv, verso, column 2; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:In wynter whan it ſnoweth it is good ſyttynge by a good fyre: […]
** 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 16.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 21:Then there was the watch with staff and lanthorn crying the hour, and the kind of weather; and those who woke up at his voice and turned them round in bed, were glad to hear it rained, or snowed, or blew, or froze, for very comfort's sake.
** 1945 July (date written), “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”, Sammy Cahn (lyrics), Jule Styne (music), performed by Vaughn Monroe, Camden, N.J.: RCA Victor, published 1945, →OCLC:Oh! the weather outside is frightful / But the fire is so delightful / And since we've no place to go, / Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!The score was published as Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, New York, N.Y.: Edwin H. Morris & Company, 1945, →OCLC.
** (also figurative) Of a thing: to fall like snow.
*** 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 37:Time on this Head has ſnovv’d, yet ſtill ’tis borne / Aloft; nor thinks but on another’s Grave.A figurative use.
*** 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
*** 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Palace of Art”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 145:And there the Ionian father of the rest; / A million wrinkles carved his skin; / A hundred winters snow'd upon his breast, / From cheek and throat and chin.
*** 1894, S[abine] Baring-Gould, “Beggar-my-neighbour”, in The Queen of Love […], volume I, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 153:Then all at once he saw, staring him in the face, a knave of spades. The shock was too great for even his iron nerves; his hand trembled, his fingers involuntarily relaxed, and away shot the cards, flying over the platform and snowing upon the audience in the front rows.
* (transitive)
** To cause (something) to fall like snow.
*** 1587 January, Raphael Holinshed, “The Chronicles of England, from the Yeare of Our Lord 1576, where Raphaell Holinshed left; Supplied and Continued to this Present Yeare 1586: […]”, in The Third Volume of Chronicles, Beginning at Duke William the Norman, Commonlie Called the Conqueror; […], 2nd edition, volume III, London: […] [Henry Denham] […] at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, →OCLC, page 1355:[A]t the ſetting out of a verie ſtatelie tragedie named Dido, wherein the quéenes banket (with Eneas narration of the deſtruction of Troie) was liuelie deſcribed in a marchpaine patterne, there was alſo a goodlie ſight of hunters with full crie of a kennell of hounds, Mercurie and Iris deſcending and aſcending from and to an high place, the tempeſt wherein it hailed ſmall confects, rained roſewater, and ſnew an artificiall kind of ſnow, all ſtrange, maruellous, ⁊ [and] abundant.
*** 1590s (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “Song [Go and Catch a Falling Star]”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 196:Ride ten thouſand daies and nights, / Till age ſnovv vvhite haires on thee, […]
*** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 59, column 1:Let the skie raine Potatoes: let it thunder, to the tune of Greene-ſleeues, haile-kiſſing Comfits, and ſnovv Eringoes: […]
*** c. 1607–1608 (date written), George Chapman, “The Tragedie of Charles, Duke of Byron”, in The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron, Marshall of France. […], [London]: […] G[eorge] Eld for Thomas Thorppe, […], published 1608, →OCLC, Act V, signature [Q4], recto:[A]s a Sauadge Bore that (hunted longe, / Aſſayld and ſet vp) vvith his onely eyes, / Svvimming in fire keepes of the baying hounds, / Though ſuncke himſelfe, yet houlds his anger vp, / And ſnovves it forth in foame; […] So fares the furious Duke, and vvith his lookes, / Doth teach death horrors; […]
*** 1827 October 1, [Walter Scott], “Introduction”, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, pages xxi–xxii:[I]n the situation of the theatrical mechanist, who, when the white paper which represented his shower of snow was exhausted, continued the storm by snowing brown [paper], I drew on my memory as long as I could, and, when that failed, eked it out with invention.
*** 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part I”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 15:[H]e started on his feet, / Tore the king's letter, snow'd it down, and rent / The wonder of the loom thro' warp and woof / From skirt to skirt; […]
*** 1864 October, John Townsend Trowbridge, “Service”, in The Vagabonds, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1869, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 67:If one poor flower of thanks to thee / Be truly given, / All night then snowest down to me / Lilies of heaven!
*** 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XVI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 140:A sweep of chilly air passed by, rustling all the leaves and snowing the flaky ashes broadcast about the fire.
** To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
*** 1635 November 8 (first performance; Gregorian calendar; published 1635), Thomas Heywood, “Londini Sinus Salutis, or, Londons Harbour of Health, and Happinesse. […]. The Speech of Mars.”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood […], volume IV, London: John Pearson […], published 1874, →OCLC, page 295:Even the Horſe wee ride / Vnſhod, would founder, who takes greateſt pride, / When the moſt curb'd, and playing with the bit, / Hee ſnowes the ground [with froth from his mouth], and doth the Spurre forgit.
*** a. 1823 (date written), Homer, “Hymn to Mercury. Translated from the Greek of Homer.”, in Percy Bysshe Shelley, transl., edited by Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, stanza XCIV, page 326:There are three Fates, three virgin Sisters, who / Rejoicing in their wind-outspeeding wings, / Their heads with flour snowed over white and new, / Sit in a vale round which Parnassus flings / Its circling skirts— […]
** (figurative)
*** To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
**** 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second VVeeke, […]. Noah. […].] The Colonies. The III. Part of the II. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 355:Ah, courteous England, thy kinde arms I ſee / VVide-stretched out to ſaue and vvelcom me. / Thou (tender Mother) vvilt not ſuffer Age / To ſnovve my locks in Forrein Pilgrimage: […]
*** (originally US, slang) To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
**** 1959 February 23, Saul Bellow, chapter XI, in Henderson the Rain King […], New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, page 133:[…] I concluded that the best thing would be to try to snow him a little, so I said that I had heard many marvelous reports about the Wariri. As I couldn't think of any details just then, I was just as glad that he didn't ask me to be specific.
**** 1974 (date written), Donna Weiss, Jackie DeShannon (lyrics and music), “Bette Davis Eyes”, in Mistaken Identity, performed by Kim Carnes, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.: EMI America Records, published 10 March 1981:She'll expose you / When she snows you / 'Cause she knows you
**** (poker) To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
***** 1999 May, Mason Malmuth, “Free Bets and Other Topics”, in Gambling Theory and Other Topics, Las Vegas, Nev.: [Creel Printers for] Two Plus Two Publishing, →ISBN, part 2 (Theory in Practice), page 84:[T]he Adventurer knew that despite what [Mike] Caro had said, there was a good chance that he was "snowing" (playing a hand that had no value and could win only if his opponent threw his cards away). Notice that this creates a dilemma for the Adventurer. If he bets and Caro is on a snow, he will lose a bet, but if he checks and his opponent is not on a snow, he also will lose a bet.
*** (US, slang, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
**** 1934 July, Raymond Chandler, “Smart-Aleck Kill”, in The Smell of Fear, London: Hamish Hamilton, published December 1965, →OCLC, section VII, page 202:She looked snowed, weaved around funny, didn't seem to know much what was going on.

##### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

##### Derived terms

* besnow
* buy when it snows, sell when it goes
* it's snowing
* let it snow
* oversnow
* snow down
* snowed (adjective)
* snow in
* snowing (noun)
* snow out
* snow over
* snow under
* snow up

##### Translations
#### See also

* avalanche
* blizzard
* Cascade concrete
* chionodoxa
* firn
* freezing rain
* frost
* graupel
* hail
* igloo
* nieve penitente
* nival
* niveous
* penitentes
* quinzee, quinzhee
* rain
* sastruga, sastrugi, zastruga, zastrugi
* skiing
* sleet
* slush
* snizzle
* the old woman is plucking her goose
* yukigassen
* Appendix:Colors

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch snauw, snaauw, or Low German snau; further etymology uncertain, possibly from Low German snau (“beak”), related to Middle Low German snute (“snout”) (whence English snout), from Proto-West Germanic *snūt (“snout”), from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz (“snout”), possibly imitative.

#### Noun

snow (plural snows)
* (nautical, historical) A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.
    Coordinate term: brig
** 1763, Stephen Theodore Janssen [i.e., Sir Stephen Janssen, 4th Baronet], Smuggling Laid Open in All Its Extensive and Destructive Branches; […], London: […] W. Owen, and W. Nicoll, →OCLC, page 263:An ESTIMATE made of the Annual Expence of a Snow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men (Officers included) Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, beſides Swivels.

##### Alternative forms

* snaw

##### Translations
### Notes

* ↑ From the collection of the National Maritime Museum in London, England, United Kingdom.

### References

* ↑ “snou, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “snow, n.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2024; “snow, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “snouen, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “snow, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024; “snow, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “-en, suf.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “snow, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2024.

### Further reading

* snow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* snow (ship) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* snow (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “snow”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* nows, owns, sow'n, sown, wons

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* snaw, snowe, snawe, snowȝ, snoȝ, snogh, snou

### Etymology

From Old English snāw, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

### Pronunciation

* (Early Middle English, Northern) IPA: /snɑu̯/
* IPA: /snɔu̯/

### Noun

snow (plural snowes)
* snow (frozen water as precipitation, either while falling or once landed)
** c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:14, page 117v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:⁊ þe heed of him ⁊ his heeris weren whiyt as whiyt wolle .· ⁊ as ſnow / ⁊ þe iȝen of him as flawme of fier .·And his head and his hairs were white, like white wool or snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.
* snow-white (a snowy white)
* The temperature where snow appears.
* A blanket of snow; a snowing.

#### Derived terms

* snewen
* snow whit
* snowen
* snowisshe
* snowy

#### Descendants

* English: snow
* Scots: snaw
* Yola: sneew, sneow, snowe, snow

#### References

* “snou, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-14.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /esˈno/ [ezˈno]
** Rhymes: -o
* IPA: /esˈnou/ [ezˈnou̯]
** Rhymes: -ou

### Noun

snow m (uncountable)
* snowboarding

#### Derived terms

* tabla de snow

## Yola
### Noun

snow
* Alternative form of sneew
** 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:An neeat wooden trenshoorès var whiter than snow.And neat wooden trenchers far whiter than snow.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96