piorunami

Piorunami is the instrumental plural form of the Polish noun piorun, which means “thunderbolt” or “bolt of lightning.” In ordinary Polish, piorun refers to a single bolt, with the nominative plural usually being pioruny. The instrumental plural form, piorunami, is used in constructions that require the instrumental case, for example with the preposition z meaning “with,” as in z piorunami (with thunderbolts).

In addition to its literal sense, piorun appears in mythological and folkloric contexts. In some Polish traditions, Piorun is the name of the thunder god, analogous to Perun in other Slavic mythologies. In such usages, piorunami can refer to multiple thunderbolts attributed to the deity or used as a symbol of divine power.

In modern language, piorun primarily denotes a bolt of lightning, but the term can also be employed metaphorically to convey sudden, powerful impact or force. The word is part of the broader Slavic semantic field related to thunder and storm imagery and is sometimes discussed in Polish folklore and literary sources as a mythic or symbolic element.