See also: Orkan, orkán, and ork'an

Danish

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Etymology

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From either German Orkan or Dutch orkaan, both from Spanish huracán (hurricane).

Noun

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orkan c (singular definite orkanen, plural indefinite orkaner)

  1. hurricane

Inflection

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Spanish huracán, via Dutch orkaan.

Noun

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orkan m (definite singular orkanen, indefinite plural orkaner, definite plural orkanene)

  1. a hurricane

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Spanish huracán, via Dutch orkaan.

Noun

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orkan m (definite singular orkanen, indefinite plural orkanar, definite plural orkanane)

  1. a hurricane

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Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Dutch orkaan, from Spanish huracán, from Taíno juracán.

Noun

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orkan

  1. hurricane

Polish

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orkan

Etymology

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Borrowed from German Orkan. Doublet of huragan.

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Noun

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orkan m inan (related adjective orkanowy)

  1. (meteorology) European windstorm (strongest kind of extratropical cyclone occurring across the continent of Europe, associated with areas of low atmospheric pressure)
    Hypernym: cyklon
  2. (meteorology) strong wind with a thunderstorm

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adverbs

Further reading

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  • orkan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • orkan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • orkan in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From German Orkan.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ǒrkaːn/
  • Hyphenation: or‧kan

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òrkān m (Cyrillic spelling о̀рка̄н)

  1. strong wind
  2. (obsolete) hurricane

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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orkan c

  1. a hurricane

Declension

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Declension of orkan 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative orkan orkanen orkaner orkanerna
Genitive orkans orkanens orkaners orkanernas
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