Categories: Common language, Geography, geology & meteorology
🇫🇷 (une, la) vague [NF]
(une, la) vaguelette [NF][DIM]
(une, la) lame (de fond) [NF]
(une, l’) onde [NF]
(un, le) flot (flots [PLUR]) [NM]
Related term(s): bibavica, gladina, morje, naval, ocean, oseka, plima, poplava, površina, silovit, tekočina, valovanje, veliko, voda
IPA pronunciation: [vaɡ],[vaɡ.lɛt],[lam],[ɔ̃d],[flo]
Grammar: [PLUR] des/les vagues, des/les vaguelettes, des/les lames (de fond), des/les ondes, des/les flots
Example(s) of use: « Écume financière ou quand Elon Musk, tel Poséidon, lança des vagues pour attirer les fonds. », L’Usine Nouvelle [🇫🇷] (09/04/2021)
Examples from arts & (pop)culture, etc: [Painting][Ukiyo-e] « La Grande Vague de Kanagawa ([🇯🇵] 神奈川沖波裏, [🇬🇧] The Great Wave off Kanagawa, [🇸🇮] Veliki val Kanagawe) », Katsushika Hokusai (Hokusai) (1831) [🇯🇵]
Expressions, idioms: faire des vagues (choquer, scandaliser) [EXPR]
Literally meaning: [🇸🇮] “delati valove”: dvigniti veliko/mnogo prahu; [🇬🇧] make waves, kick up a fuss
Synonyms or related terms: crête, creux, déferlante, eau, écume, houle, lac, liquide, marée, mascaret, mer, mouvement, océan, ondulation, raz-de-marée, ressac, surface, tsunami, vague, vent
Confusions or false friends: vague [ADJ] (flou, indéfini): [🇸🇮] meglen, nejasen, nerazločen; [🇬🇧] vague, unclear, fuzzy, hazy
Other meanings: une vague de protestation [NP]: [🇸🇮] val protestov; [🇬🇧] wave of protests
Pivot language: [🇬🇧] vawe, tidal bore
In other languages: [LAT] fluctus, lamina, unda
Additional infos:
Grammar: [PLUR] des/les vagues, des/les vaguelettes, des/les lames (de fond), des/les ondes, des/les flots
Example(s) of use: « Écume financière ou quand Elon Musk, tel Poséidon, lança des vagues pour attirer les fonds. », L’Usine Nouvelle [🇫🇷] (09/04/2021)
Examples from arts & (pop)culture, etc: [Painting][Ukiyo-e] « La Grande Vague de Kanagawa ([🇯🇵] 神奈川沖波裏, [🇬🇧] The Great Wave off Kanagawa, [🇸🇮] Veliki val Kanagawe) », Katsushika Hokusai (Hokusai) (1831) [🇯🇵]
Expressions, idioms: faire des vagues (choquer, scandaliser) [EXPR]
Literally meaning: [🇸🇮] “delati valove”: dvigniti veliko/mnogo prahu; [🇬🇧] make waves, kick up a fuss
Synonyms or related terms: crête, creux, déferlante, eau, écume, houle, lac, liquide, marée, mascaret, mer, mouvement, océan, ondulation, raz-de-marée, ressac, surface, tsunami, vague, vent
Confusions or false friends: vague [ADJ] (flou, indéfini): [🇸🇮] meglen, nejasen, nerazločen; [🇬🇧] vague, unclear, fuzzy, hazy
Other meanings: une vague de protestation [NP]: [🇸🇮] val protestov; [🇬🇧] wave of protests
Pivot language: [🇬🇧] vawe, tidal bore
In other languages: [LAT] fluctus, lamina, unda
Additional infos:
[🇫🇷] la Nouvelle Vague (courant cinématographique) – [🇸🇮] (francoski) novi val – [🇬🇧] La Nouvelle Vague, the New Wave
[🇫🇷] New Wave (courant musical) – [🇸🇮] novi val (glasba) – [🇬🇧] New Wave (music movement)
[🇫🇷] le mascaret (vague déferlante, Pororoca) – [🇸🇮] plimski val (pororoka) – [🇬🇧] tidal bore (Pororoca)
[🇫🇷] (avoir le) vague à l’âme (être mélancolique, triste) [EXPR][FIG.] – [🇸🇮] “imeti val/medlost v duši”: imeti melanholične misli, biti otožen – [🇬🇧] “have vawe/vagueness”: feel down, feel blue, have melancholy