huracán

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Spanish

Etymology

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Taíno *hurakābor.

Spanish huracán

Borrowed from Taíno *hurakā (“hurricane”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /uɾaˈkan/
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -an
Syllabification: hu‧ra‧cán

Noun

huracán m (plural huracanes)

hurricane

Derived terms

ojo del huracán

Descendants

Descendants of huracán

→ Catalan: huracà
→ Dutch: orkaan
- Afrikaans: orkaan
- Negerhollands: orkan
- → Danish: orkan
- → German: Orkan
  - ⇒ Czech: orkán
  - → Macedonian: оркан (orkan)
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    - Cyrillic script: о̀рка̄н
    - Latin script: òrkān
- ⇒ Norwegian Bokmål: orkan
- ⇒ Norwegian Nynorsk: orkan
- → Papiamentu: orkan, orkaan
- → Swedish: orkan
→ English: hurricane, hero-cane, hurrican
- > Bislama: hariken (inherited)
- → German: Hurrikan
- → Irish: hairicín
- → Japanese: ハリケーン (Harikēn)
- → Korean: 허리케인 (heorikein)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  - Latin script: hȁriken
- → Thai: เฮอริเคน (həə-rí-keen)
→ 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:
  - Cyrillic script: у̏рага̄н
  - Latin script: ȕragān
- → Ukrainian: урага́н (urahán), гураґа́н (huragán) — 1928-1933 spelling
  - → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
→ Hungarian: hurrikán, orkán
→ Italian: uragano
- → Greek: ραγάνι (ragáni)
→ Portuguese: furacão

See also

Further reading

“huracán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

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