tufão
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān, “storm; typhoon”).[1] See etymology in typhoon.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: tu‧fão
Noun[edit]
tufão 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. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.