How many words can you think of to describe types of rain in Arabic? Well apparently there are 18 and by looking at them, I am only familiar with 2! Check them out as shared on Twitter by Madonna Kalousian.

I might be wrong, but I don’t think there’s any other language that has such accuracy in description as the Arabic language. I wonder if “كابسية” is an actual Arabic word of part of our Lebanese slang.

Someone shared a rough translation of these 18 words: