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

  • IPA(key): /ɔrˈkaːn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: or‧kaan
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

orkaan m or n (plural orkanen, diminutive orkaantje n)

  1. hurricane
  2. (figuratively) An uncontrollable/destructive force
  3. (figuratively) Something moving extremely fast

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: orkaan
  • Danish: orkan
  • German: Orkan
  • Papiamentu: orkan
  • Swedish: orkan

Further reading


Estonian

Noun

orkaan (genitive orkaani, partitive orkaani)

  1. hurricane

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • orkaan”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009