maelstrom

Senso (Inglese)

1. A large and violent whirlpool.
2. (figuratively) A chaotic or turbulent situation.

Concetti

vortice

gorgo

tourbillon

turbine di

mulinello

molinello

sinonimi

whirlpool

vortex

whirl

eddy

whirlwind

chaos

turmoil

upheaval

tourbillon

convulsions

gyre

hurly-burly

swirl

Traduzioni

vorágine

tourbillon

maalstroom

Strudel

remolino

vórtice

redemoinho

Mahlstrom

turbilhão

torbellino

vórtice

maëlstrom

voragem

Wirbelwind

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈmeɪlˌstɹəm/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine olandese: maalstroom

Affine danese: malstrøm

Affine tedesco: Mahlstrom

Affine svedese: malström

In summary

The word was originally the name of a giant whirlpool off Norway in the Arctic Ocean which was said to destroy all ships that came close to it, likely the actual tidal pool system of Moskstraumen in Lofoten.
It is borrowed from early modern Dutch maelstrom (“whirlpool”) (obsolete) (modern Dutch maalstroom), from malen (“to whirl around; to grind”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”)) + stroom (“stream; river; current or flow of water or other liquid”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, stream”)), and was popularized by Edgar Allen Poe’s short story A Descent into the Maelström (1841).
Cognates
* Danish malstrøm
* German Mahlstrom
* Swedish malström