English
Etymology
Perhaps a calque of German Eiszeit.[1]
Noun
ice age (plural ice ages)
- (sciences) A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence of major polar ice sheets that reach the ocean and calve icebergs.[2]
The earth is currently in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, an ice age that began 33.9 million years ago with the Antarctic Ice Cap.
- (colloquial) Any of several glacial periods (within a scientific ice age) marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth (interglacial).
2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 377:The cause of ice ages, Köppen decided, is to be found in cool summers, not brutal winters.
Derived terms
Translations
period of glaciation at the poles
any of several glacial periods
- Afrikaans: ystydperk
- Albanian: koha e akullit f (definite)
- Arabic: عَصْر جَلِيدِيّ m (ʕaṣr jalīdiyy)
- Armenian: սառցե դարաշրջան (saṙcʻe darašrǰan)
- Azerbaijani: buz dövrü
- Basque: glaziazio
- Belarusian: ледніко́вы перы́яд m (ljednikóvy pjerýjad), ледніко́вы пэры́яд m (ljednikóvy perýjad)
- Bengali: হিমযুগ (himojug)
- Bulgarian: ле́дников перио́д m (lédnikov periód)
- Burmese: ရေခဲခေတ် (rehkai:hket)
- Catalan: època glacial f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 冰河時期 / 冰河时期 (zh) (bīnghé shíqī), 冰期 (zh) (bīngqī), 冰河期 (zh) (bīnghéqī)
- Czech: doba ledová (cs) f
- Danish: istid (da) c
- Dutch: ijstijd (nl) m
- Esperanto: glaciepoko
- Estonian: jääaeg
- Finnish: jääkausi (fi)
- French: période glaciaire (fr) f, glaciation (fr) f, englaciation, âge de glace m
- Georgian: გამყინვარების პერიოდი (gamq̇invarebis ṗeriodi)
- German: Eiszeit (de) f, Eiszeitalter (de) n, Glazial (de) n
- Greek: Εποχή των Παγετώνων f (Epochí ton Pagetónon)
- Hebrew: עִדַּן קֶרַח \ עידן קרח m
- Hindi: हिमयुग m (himyug)
- Hungarian: jégkorszak (hu), eljegesedés (hu)
- Icelandic: ísöld (is) f
- Indonesian: zaman es (id)
- Irish: oighearaois f
- Italian: era glaciale f
- Japanese: 氷河期 (ja) (ひょうがき, hyōgaki), 氷河時代 (ja) (ひょうがじだい, hyōga jidai)
- Kannada: ಹಿಮಯುಗ (himayuga)
- Kazakh: мұз дәуірі (mūz däuırı)
- Khmer: យុគទឹកកក (km) (yuk tɨk kɑɑk)
- Korean: 빙하기(氷河期) (ko) (binghagi), 빙기(氷期) (binggi), 빙하시대(氷河時代) (ko) (binghasidae)
- Kyrgyz: муз доору (muz dooru)
- Latvian: ledus laikmets m
- Lithuanian: ledynmetis (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Äiszäit f
- Macedonian: ледено време n (ledeno vreme)
- Malay: zaman air batu
- Malayalam: ഹിമയുഗം (himayugaṁ)
- Maltese: Żmien is-Silġ m
- Manx: eash rioee f
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: мөстлөгийн үе (möstlögiin üje)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: istid m or f
- Nynorsk: istid f
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: عَصْرِ یَخْبَنْدان (asr-e yaxbandân), عَصْرِ یَخی (asr-e yaxi)
- Polish: epoka lodowcowa f
- Portuguese: era do gelo f, era glacial f, idade do gelo f, período glacial m
- Romanian: glaciațiune (ro) f
- Russian: леднико́вый пери́од (ru) m (lednikóvyj períod), обледене́ние (ru) n (obledenénije), оледене́ние (ru) n (oledenénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: Linn na Deighe
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ледено доба n
- Roman: ledeno doba n
- Slovak: ľadová doba f
- Slovene: ledena doba (sl) f
- Spanish: glaciación (es) f
- Swedish: istid (sv) c, nedisning (sv) c
- Tagalog: panahon ng yelo
- Tajik: давраи яхбандӣ (davra-yi yaxbandi)
- Tamil: பனி யுகம் (paṉi yukam)
- Thai: ยุคน้ำแข็ง (yúk-nám-kɛ̌ng)
- Turkish: buzul çağı
- Ukrainian: льодовико́ва е́ра f (lʹodovykóva éra), льодовико́вий пері́од m (lʹodovykóvyj períod)
- Urdu: بَرْفَانی دَور m (barfānī daur), بَرْفَانی عَہْد m (barfānī 'ahd)
- Uyghur: مۇز دەۋرى (muz dewri)
- Uzbek: muzlik davri
- Vietnamese: kỷ băng hà (期冰河)
- Welsh: Oes yr Iâ
- West Frisian: iistiid
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