huracán
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Taíno *hurakā (“hurricane”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithuracán m (plural huracanes)
Derived terms
editDescendants
editDescendants
- → Catalan: huracà
- → Dutch: orkaan
- → English: hurricane
- → French: ouragan
- > Saint Dominican Creole French: zouragan (inherited)
- → Norman: ouragan
- → Polish: huragan
- → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
- → Romanian: uragan
- → Russian: урага́н (uragán)
- → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Ukrainian: урага́н (urahán), гураґа́н (huragán) — 1928-1933 spelling
- → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
- → Hungarian: hurrikán, orkán
- → Italian: uragano
- → Greek: ραγάνι (ragáni)
- → Portuguese: furacão
See also
edit- anticiclón m
- ciclón m
- tifón m
- tornado m
Further reading
edit- “huracán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014