orkaan
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
Noun
orkaan m or n (plural orkanen, diminutive orkaantje n)
- hurricane
- (figuratively) An uncontrollable/destructive force
- (figuratively) Something moving extremely fast
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
orkaan on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Estonian
Noun
orkaan (genitive orkaani, partitive orkaani)
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
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