huracán
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Taíno *hurakā (“hurricane”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]huracán m (plural huracanes)
Descendants
[edit]- → Dutch: orkaan
- → English: hurricane
- → French: ouragan
- → Hungarian: hurrikán, orkán
- → Italian: uragano
- → Serbo-Croatian: ȕragān
- → Portuguese: furacão
See also
[edit]- anticiclón m
- ciclón m
- tifón m
- tornado m
Further reading
[edit]- “huracán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014