whirlpool

See also Whirlpool

English

Noun

Wikipedia whirlpool (plural whirlpools)

1. a swirling body of water.

   A whirlpool is an instance of a vortex produced by ocean tides, or by a hole underneath where the water would drain out, such as in a bathtub.

2. turmoil, or agitated excitement

Translations

Whirlpool

• Catalan: remolí (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渦流 (cmn), 涡流 (cmn) (wōliú), 渦 (cmn), 涡 (cmn) (wō)

• Czech: vír (cs) m
• Finnish: pyörre (fi), syöveri (fi)
• French: tourbillon (fr) m
• German: Wirbel (de) m, Strudel (de) m, Stromschnelle (de) f (of a river)
• Greek: δίνη (el) (dini) f 
• Italian: vortice (it) m, mulinello (it) m
• Japanese: 渦 (ja) (うず, uzu)
• Latin: vertex (la) m
• Persian: گرداب (fa) (gerdâb)

• Polish: wir wodny m
• Romanian: vâltoare (ro)
• Russian: водоворот (ru) (vodovorót) m 
• Scots: swelchie
• Scottish Gaelic: coire (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вртлог (sh) m, ковитлац (sh) m

  Roman: vrtlog (sh) m, kovitlac (sh) m

• Spanish: remolino (es) m
• Telugu: (sudigumdamu)సుడిగుండము (te)
• Turkish: anafor (tr)
• Welsh: trobwll m