huracán
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Taíno *hurakā (“hurricane”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithuracán m (plural huracanes)
Descendants
edit- → Dutch: orkaan
- → English: hurricane
- → French: ouragan
- → Hungarian: hurrikán, orkán
- → Italian: uragano
- → Serbo-Croatian: ȕragān
- → 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