hurricane

hurricane

See also: Hurricane

English

Hurricane Maria seen from space in 2017.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hŭr′ĭ-kən, IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɹɪkən/
• (US) enPR: hŭr′ĭ-kān', hûr′ǐ-kān', IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/, /ˈhɝɪkeɪn/

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish huracán, ultimately from Taíno *hurakā.

Alternative forms

• hero-cane (obsolete)

Noun

hurricane (plural hurricanes)

1. A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
   • 2013 March 1, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, page 114:

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

2. (meteorology) A wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm

Coordinate terms

• (type of a cyclone): cyclone, tropical storm, typhoon
• (meteorology): breeze, gale, storm

Derived terms

• blizzicane
• fish hurricane
• hurricane bow
• hurricane deck
• hurricane lamp
• hurricane lantern
• hurricanelike
• hurricane party
• hurricaneproof
• hurricanic
• Irish hurricane
• Irishman's hurricane
• medicane
• posthurricane
• prehurricane
• snowicane
• superhurricane
• tornadocane

 

Descendants

• Bislama: hariken

Translations

weather phenomenon

Afrikaans: orkaan (af) Albanian: stuhi (sq) m Amharic: ዐዉሎ ነፉስ (ʿäwulo näfus) Arabic: زَوْبَعَة شَدِيدَة‎ f (zawbaʿa šadīda), إِعْصَار‎ m (ʔiʕṣār) Aragonese: huracán m Armenian: փոթորիկ (hy) (pʿotʿorik), մրրիկ (hy) (mrrik), հողմ (hy) (hołm) Asturian: furacán m Azerbaijani: burağan, qasırğa Basque: urakan Belarusian: урага́н m (urahán) Belizean Creole: harikayn, horikayn Bikol Central: bagyo (bcl) Bislama: bigwin Breton: korventenn m, avel diroll m Bulgarian: урага́н (bg) m (uragán) Burmese: လေမုန်တိုင်း (my) (lemuntuing:) Catalan: huracà (ca) m Cebuano: bagyo Chinese: Mandarin: 颶風／飓风 (zh) (jùfēng) Chuvash: ҫил-тӑвӑл (śil-t̬ăvăl) Corsican: uraganu m Czech: hurikán (cs) m, uragán (cs) m Danish: orkan (da) c Dutch: orkaan (nl) f Esperanto: uragano Estonian: orkaan Faroese: ódn (fo) f Finnish: hurrikaani (fi), hirmumyrsky (fi) French: ouragan (fr) m Friulian: rogan m Galician: furacán (gl) m Georgian: ქარიშხალი (karišxali), ურაგანი (uragani) German: Hurrikan (de) m, Orkan (de) m, Hurrikane (de) Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (el) m (anemostróvilos), κυκλώνας (el) m (kyklónas), τυφώνας (el) m (tyfónas) Ancient: τυφώς m (tuphṓs), τυφῶν m (tuphôn), πρηστήρ m (prēstḗr) Greenlandic: anoraarsuaq Hawaiian: makani pāhili Hindi: तूफ़ान m (tūfān) Hungarian: hurrikán (hu) Icelandic: fellibylur (is) Ido: uragano (io) Ilocano: bagio Indonesian: hurikan (id) Interlingua: huracan Irish: hairicín m, spéirling f Italian: uragano (it) m Japanese: (just a wind) 暴風 (ja) (bōfū); (including rain) 暴風雨 (ja) (bōfū-u); (literally) ハリケーン (ja) (harikēn) (of Caribbean Sea) Javanese: hurikan Kannada: ಚಂಡಮಾರುತ (kn) (caṇḍamāruta) Khasi: eriong f Khmer: ខ្យល់ព្យុះ (kyɑl pyuh) Korean: 허리케인 (ko) (heorikein), 폭풍 (ko) (pokpung), 폭풍우 (ko) (pokpung'u), 하리켄 (hariken) (North Korea) Lao: ພາຍຸ (phā nyu), ສລາຕັນ (sa lā tan), ເພັດຊະຫຶງ (phet sa hưng) Latin: huracanum n Latvian: orkāns, viesuļvētra Lithuanian: uraganas m Macedonian: оркан m (orkan), ураган (uragan) Malay: hurikan Malayalam: ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റ് (ml) (cuḻalikkāṟṟŭ) Manx: gaal-baarnee, gaardey, geay vooar Maori: haumātakataka, huripari Mongolian: далайн шуурга (dalajn šuurga), догшин шуурга (dogšin šuurga) Navajo: tónteeldę́ę́ʼ níyoltsoh Northern Sotho: ledimo, sedukaduka Norwegian: Bokmål: orkan m Nynorsk: orkan m Occitan: auristre m Piedmontese: uragan m Polish: huragan (pl) m Portuguese: furacão (pt) m Punjabi: ਤੂਫ਼ਾਨ m (tūfān) Romanian: uragan (ro) n Romansch: hurican m Russian: урага́н (ru) m (uragán) Samoan: afa Sardinian: araganu m Saterland Frisian: Orkoan Scottish Gaelic: doineann f, saighnean m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀рка̄н m, у̏рага̄н m Roman: òrkān (sh) m, ȕragān (sh) m Sicilian: uraganu (scn) m Slovak: orkán Slovene: hurikán Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: hurrikan m Upper Sorbian: hurrikan m Sotho: sefefo Spanish: huracán (es) m Swahili: kimbunga (sw) Swedish: orkan (sv) Tagalog: bagyo (tl) Tamil: புயல் (ta) (puyal) Tetum: anin-fuik Thai: เฮอริเคน (th) (həə-rí-keen) Tigrinya: ሃቦብላ (ti) (habobla) Turkish: kasırga (tr), urağan (tr) Ukrainian: урага́н m (urahán) Venetian: uragan (vec) m, ragan (vec) m Vietnamese: bão (vi), bão táp (vi), bão tố (vi) Volapük: letep (vo) Võro: hurrikaan Waray-Waray: bagyo Welsh: gyrwynt m, corwynt m, corwyntoedd m pl West Frisian: orkaan Yiddish: הוראַגאַן‎ m (huragan)

meteorology: a wind scale for quite strong wind

Afrikaans: orkaan (af) Azerbaijani: fırtına (az) Basque: urakan Breton: korventenn m, avel diroll m Bulgarian: урага́н (bg) m (uragán) Catalan: huracà (ca) m Czech: orkán (cs) Danish: orkan (da) c Dutch: orkaan (nl) f Esperanto: uragano Estonian: orkaan Faroese: ódn (fo) Finnish: hirmumyrsky (fi) French: ouragan (fr) m German: Orkan (de) Greek: τυφώνας (el) (tyfónas) Hungarian: orkán (hu) Icelandic: fárviðri (is) n Indonesian: hurikan (id) n Irish: spéirling f Italian: uragano (it) m Japanese: 大暴風 (dai-bōfū) Lithuanian: uraganas m Macedonian: ураган m (uragan), оркан m (orkan) Norwegian: Bokmål: orkan m Nynorsk: orkan m Polish: huragan (pl) m Portuguese: furacão (pt) m Romanian: uragan (ro) n Russian: урага́н (ru) m (uragán) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀рка̄н m, у̏рага̄н m Roman: òrkān (sh) m, ȕragān (sh) m Slovak: orkán m Slovene: orkan (sl) m Spanish: huracán (es) m Swahili: kimbunga (sw) Swedish: orkan (sv) c Turkish: kasırga (tr) Ukrainian: урага́н m (urahán) West Flemish: orkoan

See also

• anticyclone
• wind

Etymology 2

Coined by Jeret Peterson.

Noun

hurricane (plural hurricanes)

1. (sports, aerial freestyle skiing) "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip

See also

• (freestyle aerial skiing): rudy, randy, daffy, full, double-full, triple-full, lay, back, slap-back, stretch

Anagrams

• raunchier

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁi.kan/

Noun

hurricane m (plural hurricanes)

1. hurricane

Further reading

• “hurricane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.