orkaan
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish huracán, ultimately from Taíno juracán; cognate with French ouragan, English hurricane (originally hurricano); German Orkan is borrowed from Dutch.
Pronunciation
Noun
orkaan m or n (plural orkanen, diminutive orkaantje n)
- hurricane
- (figuratively) an uncontrollable/destructive force
- (figuratively) something moving extremely fast
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: orkaan
- Negerhollands: orkan
- → Danish: orkan
- → German: Orkan
- ⇒ Norwegian Bokmål: orkan
- ⇒ Norwegian Nynorsk: orkan
- → Papiamentu: orkan, orkaan
- → Swedish: orkan
Further reading
orkaan on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Estonian
Pronunciation
Noun
orkaan (genitive orkaani, partitive orkaani)
Declension
| Declension of orkaan (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | orkaan | orkaanid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | orkaani | ||
| genitive | orkaanide | ||
| partitive | orkaani | orkaane orkaanisid | |
| illative | orkaani orkaanisse |
orkaanidesse orkaanesse | |
| inessive | orkaanis | orkaanides orkaanes | |
| elative | orkaanist | orkaanidest orkaanest | |
| allative | orkaanile | orkaanidele orkaanele | |
| adessive | orkaanil | orkaanidel orkaanel | |
| ablative | orkaanilt | orkaanidelt orkaanelt | |
| translative | orkaaniks | orkaanideks orkaaneks | |
| terminative | orkaanini | orkaanideni | |
| essive | orkaanina | orkaanidena | |
| abessive | orkaanita | orkaanideta | |
| comitative | orkaaniga | orkaanidega | |
Further reading
- “orkaan”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009