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Hurricane Dennis seen from space in 2005.
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Etymology 1 [ edit ]
From Spanish huracán , ultimately from the name of the Taino storm god Juracán whom the Taínos believed dwelled on El Yunque mountain and, when he was upset, sent the strong winds and rain upon them.
hurricane (plural hurricanes )
A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean , Caribbean Sea , Gulf of Mexico , or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico , with winds of 74 miles per hour (119 kph) or greater accompanied by rain , lightning , and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes .
2013 March 1, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, American Scientist , volume 101, number 2, page 114 :
An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes .
( meteorology ) a wind scale for quite strong wind , stronger than a storm
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weather phenomenon
Afrikaans: orkaan
Albanian: uragan m
Arabic: زوبعة شديدة f (záwbaʿa šadīda )
Aragonese: huracán m
Armenian: փոթորիկ (pʿotʿorik ), մրրիկ (mrrik ), հողմ (hołm )
Asturian: furacán m
Azeri: burağan , qasırğa (az)
Basque: urakan
Belarusian: урага́н m (urahán )
Bislama: bigwin
Breton: korventenn m , avel diroll m
Bulgarian: урага́н (bg) m (uragán )
Burmese: လေမုန်တိုင်း (my) (lemuntuing: )
Catalan: huracà m
Cebuano: bagyo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 颶風 , 飓风 (zh) (jùfēng )
Chuvash: çил-тăвăл (çil-tăvăl )
Corsican: uraganu m
Czech: hurikán (cs) m , uragán (cs) m
Danish: orkan (da) c
Dutch: orkaan (nl) f
Esperanto: uragano
Estonian: orkaan
Finnish: hurrikaani (fi) , hirmumyrsky (fi)
French: ouragan (fr) m
Friulian: rogan m
Galician: furacán (gl) m
Georgian: ქარიშხალი (k’arišxali ), ურაგანი (uragani )
German: Hurrikan (de) m , Orkan (de) m , Hurrikane (de)
Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (el) m (anemostróvilos ), κυκλώνας (el) m (kyklónas )
Greenlandic: anoraarsuaq
Hawaiian: makani pāhili
Hindi: अंधड़ (andhaṛ )
Hungarian: hurrikán (hu)
Icelandic: fellibylur (is)
Ido: uragano (io)
Ilocano: bagio
Indonesian: topan (id)
Interlingua: huracan
Italian: uragano (it) m
Japanese: ( just a wind ) 暴風 (ja) (bōfū ); ( including rain ) 暴風雨 (ja) (bōfū-u ); ( literally ) ハリケーン (ja) (harikēn )
Javanese: hurikan
Khmer: ខ្យល់ព្យុះ (kyɑl pyuh )
Korean: 허리케인 (ko) (heorikein ), 폭풍 (ko) (pokpung ), 폭풍우 (ko) (pokpung-u )}
Lao: ພາຍຸ (phā nyu ), ສລາຕັນ (sa lā tan ), ເພັດຊະຫຶງ (phet sa hưng )
Latin: huracanum n
Latvian: orkāns , viesuļvētra (lv)
Lithuanian: uraganas m
Macedonian: ураган (uragan )
Malay: hurikan
Manx: gaal-baarnee , gaardey , geay vooar
Maori: haumātakataka , huripari
Mongolian: далайн шуурга (dalajn šuurga ), догшин шуурга (dogšin šuurga )
Navajo: tónteeldę́ę́ʼ níyoltsoh
Northern Sotho: ledimo , sedukaduka
Norwegian:
Bokmål: orkan m
Nynorsk: orkan m
Occitan: auristre m
Piedmontese: uragan m
Polish: huragan (pl) m
Portuguese: furacão (pt) m
Punjabi: ਤੂਫ਼ਾਨ m (tūfān )
Romanian: uragan (ro) n
Romansch: hurican m
Russian: урага́н (ru) m (uragán )
Sardinian: araganu m
Scottish Gaelic: doineann f , saighnean m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: оркан m , ураган m
Roman: orkan (sh) m , uragan (sh) m
Slovak: orkán
Slovenian: hurikán
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: hurrikan m
Upper Sorbian: hurrikan m
Sotho: sefefo
Spanish: huracán (es) m
Swahili: kimbunga (sw)
Swedish: orkan (sv)
Tagalog: bagyo (tl)
Tamil: புயல் (ta) (puyal )
Tetum: anin-fuik
Thai: ลมพายุ (lom-paa-yú ), วาตภัย (th) (waa-dtà-pai ), พายุ (th) (paa-yú )
Turkish: kasırga (tr)
Ukrainian: урага́н m (urahán )
Venetian: uragan m , ragan (vec) m
Vietnamese: bão (vi) , bão táp (vi) , bão tố (vi)
Volapük: letep (vo)
Võro: hurrikaan
Waray-Waray: bagyo
Welsh: gyrwynt m , corwynt m
West Frisian: orkaan
meteorology: a wind scale for quite strong wind
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Etymology 2 [ edit ]
Coined by Jeret Peterson
hurricane (plural hurricanes )
( sports , aerial freestyle skiing) "full —triple-full —full " – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip
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