hurricane

See also: Hurricane

English

Hurricane Maria seen from space in 2017.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hŭr′ĭ-kən, hŭr′ĭ-kān', IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɹɪkən/, /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/

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• (US) enPR: hŭr′ĭ-kān', hûr′ǐ-kān', IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/, /ˈhɝɪkeɪn/

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish huracán, ultimately from Taíno *hurakā.

Alternative forms

• hero-cane (obsolete)

Noun

hurricane (plural hurricanes)

1. 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 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
   • 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, 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.

2. (meteorology) A wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm.
3. (figurative) A great forceful onrush.
   • 2006 February 5, Leslie Feinberg, “Lesbian organizing and 'red feminism'”, in Workers World‎^[2]:

     A movement of women who wanted to win greater rights had to be able to move forward against a hurricane of lesbian-baiting from the political establishment of the Cold War capitalists.

4. (cocktails) A sweet alcoholic drink made with rum, lemon juice, and either passion fruit syrup or fassionola.

Coordinate terms

• (type of a cyclone): cyclone, tropical storm, typhoon
• (meteorology): breeze, gale, storm

Derived terms

• blizzicane
• fish hurricane
• hurricane bow
• hurricane deck
• hurricane hunter
• hurricane lamp
• hurricane lantern
• hurricanelike
• hurricane party
• hurricaneproof
• hurricanic
• hurriquake
• Irish hurricane
• Irishman's hurricane
• medicane
• Paddy's hurricane
• posthurricane
• prehurricane
• snowicane
• superhurricane
• tornadocane

 

Descendants

• Bislama: hariken

Translations

weather phenomenon

• Afrikaans: orkaan (af)
• Albanian: stuhi (sq) m
• Amharic: ዐዉሎ ነፉስ (ʿäwulo näfus)
• Arabic: زَوْبَعَة شَدِيدَة f (zawbaʕa šadīda), إِعْصَار m (ʔiʕṣār)
• Aragonese: huracán m
• Armenian: փոթորիկ (hy) (pʿotʿorik), մրրիկ (hy) (mrrik), հողմ (hy) (hoġm)
• Asturian: furacán m
• Azerbaijani: burağan, qasırğa
• Basque: urakan
• Belarusian: урага́н m (urahán)
• Belizean Creole: harikayn, horikayn
• Bikol Central: bagyo (bcl)
• Bislama: bigwin
• Breton: korventenn m, avel diroll m
• Bulgarian: урага́н (bg) m (uragán)
• Burmese: လေမုန်တိုင်း (my) (lemuntuing:)
• Catalan: huracà (ca) m
• Cebuano: bagyo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 颶風／飓风 (zh) (jùfēng)

• Chuvash: ҫил-тӑвӑл (śil-t̬ăvăl)
• Corsican: uraganu m
• Czech: hurikán (cs) m, uragán (cs) m
• Danish: orkan (da) c
• Dutch: orkaan (nl) f
• Esperanto: uragano
• Estonian: orkaan
• Faroese: ódn (fo) f
• Finnish: hurrikaani (fi), hirmumyrsky (fi)
• French: ouragan (fr) m
• Friulian: rogan m
• Galician: furacán (gl) m, furricán m
• Georgian: ქარიშხალი (karišxali), ურაგანი (uragani)
• German: Hurrikan (de) m, Orkan (de) m, Hurrikane (de)
• Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (el) m (anemostróvilos), κυκλώνας (el) m (kyklónas), τυφώνας (el) m (tyfónas)

  Ancient: τυφώς m (tuphṓs), τυφῶν m (tuphôn), πρηστήρ m (prēstḗr)

• Greenlandic: anoraarsuaq
• Hawaiian: makani pāhili
• Hindi: तूफ़ान m (tūfān)
• Hungarian: hurrikán (hu)
• Icelandic: fellibylur (is)
• Ido: uragano (io)
• Ilocano: bagio
• Indonesian: hurikan (id)
• Interlingua: huracan
• Irish: hairicín m, spéirling f
• 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) (of Caribbean Sea)
• Javanese: hurikan
• Kannada: ಚಂಡಮಾರುತ (kn) (caṇḍamāruta)
• Khasi: eriong f
• Khmer: ខ្យល់ព្យុះ (kyɑl pyuh)
• Korean: 허리케인 (ko) (heorikein), 폭풍 (ko) (pokpung), 폭풍우 (ko) (pokpung'u), 하리켄 (hariken) (North Korea)
• Lao: ພາຍຸ (phā nyu), ສລາຕັນ (sa lā tan), ເພັດຊະຫຶງ (phet sa hưng)
• Latin: huracanum n
• Latvian: orkāns, viesuļvētra (lv)
• Lithuanian: uraganas m
• Macedonian: оркан m (orkan), ураган (uragan)
• Malay: hurikan
• Malayalam: ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റ് (ml) (cuḻalikkāṟṟŭ)
• 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)
• Samoan: afa
• Sardinian: araganu m
• Saterland Frisian: Orkoan
• Scottish Gaelic: doineann f, saighnean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀рка̄н m, у̏рага̄н m

  Roman: òrkān (sh) m, ȕragān (sh) m

• Sicilian: uraganu (scn) m
• Slovak: orkán
• Slovene: 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: เฮอริเคน (th) (həə-rí-keen)
• Tigrinya: ሃቦብላ (ti) (habobla)
• Turkish: kasırga (tr), urağan (tr)
• Ukrainian: урага́н m (urahán)
• Venetian: uragan (vec) 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, corwyntoedd (cy) m pl
• West Frisian: orkaan
• Yiddish: הוראַגאַן m (huragan)

meteorology: a wind scale for quite strong wind

• Afrikaans: orkaan (af)
• Azerbaijani: fırtına (az)
• Basque: urakan
• Breton: korventenn m, avel diroll m
• Bulgarian: урага́н (bg) m (uragán)
• Catalan: huracà (ca) m
• Czech: orkán (cs)
• Danish: orkan (da) c
• Dutch: orkaan (nl) f
• Esperanto: uragano
• Estonian: orkaan
• Faroese: ódn (fo)
• Finnish: hirmumyrsky (fi)
• French: ouragan (fr) m
• German: Orkan (de)
• Greek: τυφώνας (el) (tyfónas)
• Hungarian: orkán (hu)
• Icelandic: fárviðri (is) n
• Indonesian: hurikan (id) n
• Irish: spéirling f
• Italian: uragano (it) m
• Japanese: 大暴風 (dai-bōfū)
• Lithuanian: uraganas m
• Macedonian: ураган m (uragan), оркан m (orkan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orkan m

  Nynorsk: orkan m

• Polish: huragan (pl) m
• Portuguese: furacão (pt) m
• Romanian: uragan (ro) n
• Russian: урага́н (ru) m (uragán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀рка̄н m, у̏рага̄н m

  Roman: òrkān (sh) m, ȕragān (sh) m

• Slovak: orkán m
• Slovene: orkan (sl) m
• Spanish: huracán (es) m
• Swahili: kimbunga (sw)
• Swedish: orkan (sv) c
• Turkish: kasırga (tr)
• Ukrainian: урага́н m (urahán)
• West Flemish: orkoan

See also

• anticyclone
• wind

Etymology 2

Coined by Jeret Peterson.

Noun

hurricane (plural hurricanes)

1. (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

See also

• (freestyle aerial skiing): rudy, randy, daffy, full, double-full, triple-full, lay, back, slap-back, stretch

Anagrams

• raunchier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁi.kan/

Noun

hurricane m (plural hurricanes)

1. hurricane

Further reading

• “hurricane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.