huracán

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Taíno *hurakābor.

Spanish huracán

Borrowed from Taíno *hurakā (“hurricane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uɾaˈkan/ [u.ɾaˈkãn]

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: hu‧ra‧cán

Noun

huracán m (plural huracanes)

1. hurricane

Derived terms

• ojo del huracán

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: huracà
• → Dutch: orkaan
  • Afrikaans: orkaan
  • Negerhollands: orkan
  • → Danish: orkan
  • → German: Orkan
    • ⇒ Czech: orkán
    • → Macedonian: оркан (orkan)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      • Cyrillic script: о̀рка̄н
      • Latin script: òrkān
  • ⇒ Norwegian Bokmål: orkan
  • ⇒ Norwegian Nynorsk: orkan
  • → Papiamentu: orkan, orkaan
  • → Swedish: orkan
• → English: hurricane, hero-cane, hurrican
  • > Bislama: hariken (inherited)
  • → German: Hurrikan
  • → Hebrew: הוריקן (hurikan)
  • → Irish: hairicín
  • → Japanese: ハリケーン (Harikēn)
  • → Korean: 허리케인 (heorikein)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Latin script: hȁriken
  • → Thai: เฮอริเคน (həə-rí-keen)
• → French: ouragan
  • > Saint Dominican Creole French: zouragan (inherited)
  • → Norman: ouragan
  • → Polish: huragan
    • → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
  • → Romanian: uragan
  • → Russian: урага́н (uragán)
    • → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: у̏рага̄н
    • Latin script: ȕragān
  • → Ukrainian: урага́н (urahán), гураґа́н (huragán) — 1928-1933 spelling
    • → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
• → Hungarian: hurrikán, orkán
• → Italian: uragano
  • → Greek: ραγάνι (ragáni)
• → Portuguese: furacão

See also

• anticiclón m
• ciclón m
• tifón m
• tornado m

Further reading

• “huracán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10