Masculí

tyfoon

(Anglès)

  1. (masculine) typhoon
  2. (masculine) train horn

Freqüència

37k
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/tiˈfoːn/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

Probably ultimately of Sinitic origin, Mandarin 大风 (dàfēng, “big wind”), Cantonese 大風 /大风 (daai⁶ fung¹, “big wind”), via Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān), Hindi तूफ़ान (tūfān), and Persian توفان (tufân). Ancient Greek Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”) is unrelated but has secondarily contaminated the word: given the location of typhoons as a Pacific Ocean phenomenon, it is more likely it began east and moved west.

τυφώνας

tajfun

typhonas

tifona

tropischer Wirbelsturm

tyfónas

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