tufão
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān, “storm; typhoon”).[1] See etymology in typhoon.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: tu‧fão
Noun
edittufão m (plural tufões)
- typhoon (weather phenomenon in the Pacific, equivalent to a hurricane)
Descendants
edit- → English: typhoon (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- ^ “tufão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024