different between tsunami vs tornadoe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (tsunami), from ? (tsu, “harbor”) +? ? (nami, “wave”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /su??n??mi/, /tsu??n??mi/; enPR: so?o-nä'mi, tso?o-nä'mi
• (General American) IPA^(key): /su?n?mi/, /tsu?n?mi/; enPR: so?o-nä'mi, tso?o-nä'mi;
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /su?næmi/, /su?n?mi/
• Rhymes: -??mi

Noun

tsunami (plural tsunami or tsunamis)

1. A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption. Tsunami are usually a series of waves, or wave train.
2. (figuratively) A large and generally unstoppable surge.
   • 2009, John Bernard Kelly, An Accidental Atheist: A Memoir, Aquinine books ?ISBN, page 306

     It seemed that what started out as a handful of isolated cases gradually turned into a tsunami of complaints.

   • 2009, Marc Eliot, American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood, Crown Archetype ?ISBN, page 86

     It set off a tsunami of debate among the more esoteric critics, who either loved it or hated it but could not ignore it.

   • 2012, Demetra M. Pappas, The Euthanasia/Assisted-Suicide Debate, ABC-CLIO ?ISBN, page 60

     The next decade would culminate in a tsunami of legislation, civil litigation, and criminal prosecutions in which assisted suicide was both criminalized (as in Michigan) and decriminalized (as in Oregon).

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tsunami.

Alternative forms

• sunami (nonstandard)

Synonyms

• seismic sea wave
• tidal wave (usage conflict)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• earthquake
• flood
• natural disaster
• seaquake
• seiche
• tidal wave
• tsunami earthquake
• waterquake

Further reading

• tsunami on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tsunami on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
• tsunami on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Mustain, Natsumi, manitus, santimu, utinams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English tsunami, borrowed from Japanese ?? (tsunami), from ? (tsu, “harbor”) +? ? (nami, “wave”).

Noun

tsunami

1. a tsunami; a very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption

Czech

Alternative forms

• cunami

Etymology

From Japanese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?sunam?]
• Hyphenation: tsu?na?mi

Noun

tsunami f

1. tsunami

Declension

Further reading

• tsunami in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

Noun

tsunami

1. tsunami

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

From Japanese ??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsu?na?mi/

Noun

tsunami m (plural tsunami's, diminutive tsunamietje n)

1. tsunami

Hypernyms

• vloedgolf

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese ??.

Noun

tsunami

1. tsunami

Declension

Compounds

• tsunamiaalto
• tsunamivaara
• tsunamivaroitus

Anagrams

• minusta, mitsuna, muistan, mustina

French

Etymology

From Japanese ?? / ?? (???, tsunami, “harbour wave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsy.na.mi/

Noun

tsunami m (plural tsunamis)

1. tsunami

Further reading

• “tsunami” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese ?? (???, tsunami, “tsunami, tidal wave, tidal bore”), from ? (tsu, “harbor”) +? ? (nami, “wave”).

Pronunciation

• (common) IPA^(key): /su.na.mi/
• (educated) IPA^(key): /tsu.na.mi/
• Hyphenation: tsu?na?mi

Noun

tsunami (first-person possessive tsunamiku, second-person possessive tsunamimu, third-person possessive tsunaminya)

1. tsunami: a very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption. Tsunami are usually a series of waves, or wave train.

Further reading

• “tsunami” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Japanese

Noun

tsunami m (invariable)

1. tsunami

Japanese

Romanization

tsunami

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Malay

Etymology

From Japanese ??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tsu.nä.mi], [su.nä.mi]

Noun

tsunami (Jawi spelling ????????, plural tsunami-tsunami, informal 1st possessive tsunamiku, impolite 2nd possessive tsunamimu, 3rd possessive tsunaminya)

1. tsunami.

Further reading

• “tsunami” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (tsunami), via English tsunami

Noun

tsunami m (definite singular tsunamien, indefinite plural tsunamier, definite plural tsunamiene)

1. a tsunami

References

• “tsunami” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “tsunami” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (tsunami), via English tsunami

Noun

tsunami m (definite singular tsunamien, indefinite plural tsunamiar, definite plural tsunamiane)

1. a tsunami

References

• “tsunami” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese ?? / ?? (??? (tsunami, “seismic sea wave”, literally “harbour wave”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsu?na.m?i/

Noun

tsunami n (indeclinable)

1. tsunami

Further reading

• tsunami in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tsunâmi (rare)

Etymology

From Japanese ?? / ?? (??? (“seismic sea wave”, literally “harbour wave”)).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): [t?su.?n?.mi], [t??i.su.?n?.mi]
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /t?su.?n?.mi/
• Hyphenation: tsu?na?mi

Noun

tsunami m or f (in variation) (plural tsunamis)

1. tsunami (large, destructive wave)

   Synonym: maremoto

Spanish

Etymology

From English tsunami, from Japanese ?? / ?? (???, tsunami, “harbour wave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsu?nami/, [t?su?na.mi]

Noun

tsunami m (plural tsunamis)

1. tsunami

See also

• marejada
• maremoto

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English tsunami from Japanese ?? (tsunami)

Pronunciation

Noun

tsunami (n class, plural tsunami)

1. tsunami

Swedish

Etymology

From Japanese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(t)s???n??m?/, /(t)s??n??m?/

Noun

tsunami c

1. tsunami

Declension

Derived terms

• tsunamivåg

English

Etymology

Usually a misconstruction based on the fact that tornadoes can be a plural form of tornado.

Noun

tornadoe

1. Misspelling of tornado.