English
Etymology
From brainstorm + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
brainstorming (countable and uncountable, plural brainstormings)
- A method of problem solving in which members of a group contribute ideas spontaneously.
- Synonym: thought shower
- Hyponym: brainwriting
- Coordinate terms: blue-sky thinking, masterminding
Derived terms
Translations
method of problem solving
- Afrikaans: dinkskrum
- Arabic: عَصَف ذِهْنِيّ m (ʕaṣaf ḏihniyy), قَدَح ذِهْنِيّ m (qadaḥ ḏihniyy)
- Armenian: մտագրոհ (mtagroh)
- Azerbaijani: beyin həmləsi
- Basque: ideia-jasa
- Belarusian: мазгавы́ шторм m (mazhavý štorm), мазгавы́ штурм m (mazhavý šturm), мазгавы́ на́пад m (mazhavý nápad)
- Breton: hej-menozioù m
- Bulgarian: мозъчна ата́ка f (mozǎčna atáka), брейнсторминг m (brejnstorming)
- Catalan: pluja d'idees (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 頭腦風暴 / 头脑风暴 (zh) (tóunǎo fēngbào), 腦力激盪 / 脑力激荡 (zh) (nǎolì jīdàng)
- Czech: burza nápadů f, brainstorming m
- Danish: brainstorming (da) c, brainstorm c
- Dutch: brainstorm (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: ideŝprucado, komuna cerbumado, kuncerbumado sg
- Estonian: ajurünnak, ajuraju
- Finnish: aivoriihi (fi)
- French: remue-méninge (fr) m, brainstorming (fr) m
- German: Brainstorming n
- Greek: καταιγισμός ιδεών (el) m (kataigismós ideón), ιδεοκαταιγισμός (el) m (ideokataigismós)
- Hebrew: סִעוּר מֹחוֹת f (si'úr mokhót)
- Hindi: मंथन (hi) m (manthan), चिंतन (hi) m (cintan)
- Hungarian: ötletgyűjtés (hu), ötletgyártás, ötletbörze (hu), ötletroham (hu)
- Indonesian: sumbang saran, curah pendapat
- Italian: brainstorming (it) m
- Japanese: ブレインストーミング (ja) (bureinsutōmingu), ブレーンストーミング (ja) (burēnsutōmingu), ブレスト (ja) (buresuto)
- Kannada: ಬುದ್ಧಿದಾಳಿ (kn) (buddhidāḷi), ಮುಕ್ತವಾಗಿ ಚರ್ಚಿಸುವ ವಿಧಾನ (kn) (muktavāgi carcisuva vidhāna)
- Korean: 브레인스토밍 (beureinseutoming)
- Latvian: prāta vētras metode f
- Malagasy: zaikakelim-pamoahankevitra (mg)
- Malay: sumbang saran (ms), pemerahan otak, percambahan minda, tampung saran, curah pendapat, ڤمرهن اوتق (pemerahan utak), ڤرچمبهن ميندا (percambahan minda), تمڤوڠ سارن (tampung saran), چوره ڤنداڤت (curah pendapat)
- Marathi: ब्रेनस्टॉर्मिंग n (brenasṭŏrmiṅga)
- Norwegian: idédugnad (no) m, brainstorming (no) m, idémyldring m or f
- Persian: طوفان فکری (tufân fekri), بارش فکری (bâreš fekri), اندیشهباران (fa) (andiše-bârân)
- Polish: burza mózgów (pl) f
- Portuguese: tempestade cerebral (pt) f, tempestade de ideias f, brainstorming (pt) m or f, brainstorm (pt) m
- Russian: мозгова́я ата́ка (ru) f (mozgovája atáka), мозгово́й штурм (ru) m (mozgovój šturm), брейнсто́рминг (ru) m (brɛjnstórming)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: про̀ток иде́ја m, олу́ја мозгова f, бу̏ра мозгова f, брејнсторминг m
- Latin: pròtok idéja m, olúja mozgova f, bȕra mozgova f, brainstorming (sh) m
- Slovene: možganska nevihta f, brainstorming m
- Spanish: tormenta de ideas (es) f, lluvia de ideas (es) f, brainstorming m, tormenta cerebral f, pluvia ideal f
- Swedish: brainstormning (sv) c, brainstorming (sv) c, hjärnstorm (sv) c (uncommon)
- Tamil: கருத்துதிர்ப்பு (karuttutirppu)
- Turkish: beyin fırtınası (tr), fikir fırtınası
- Ukrainian: мозкови́й шторм m (mozkovýj štorm), зли́ва іде́й f (zlýva idéj), ґенерува́ння іде́й f (generuvánnja idéj)
- Urdu: فکر انگیزی (fikr-angezī)
- Vietnamese: động não (vi), công não, tập kích (vi)
- Welsh: taflu syniadau m, tanio syniadau m
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Verb
brainstorming
- present participle and gerund of brainstorm
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
Noun
brainstorming m (uncountable)
- brainstorming
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brainstorming.
Noun
brainstorming n (plural brainstorminguri)
- brainstorming
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brainstorming
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brainstormingul
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brainstorminguri
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brainstormingurile
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brainstorming
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brainstormingului
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brainstorminguri
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brainstormingurilor
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brainstormingule
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brainstormingurilor
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Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brainstorming.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɾeinsˈtoɾmin/ [bɾẽĩnsˈt̪oɾ.mĩn]
- IPA(key): /ˈbɾeinstoɾmin/ [ˈbɾẽĩns.t̪oɾ.mĩn]
- IPA(key): /bɾeinesˈtoɾmin/ [bɾei̯.nesˈt̪oɾ.mĩn]
- Syllabification: brains‧tor‧ming
Noun
brainstorming m (plural brainstormings)
- brainstorming (method of problem solving)
- Synonyms: lluvia de ideas, tormenta de ideas
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “brainstorming”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]