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typhoon

English

Etymology

Its ultimate origin is generally thought to be Sinitic ????? ("big wind", Mandarin dàf?ng, Cantonese daai6 fung1).

It entered English as early as 1588, perhaps via Portuguese tufão (attested since at least 1560) from Arabic ???????? (??f?n) (compare Persian ?????? (tufân), Hindi ?????? (t?f?n)).

Within English, its form was influenced by Ancient Greek ????? (Tuphôn, Typhon, father of the winds). (Some sources suggest the term originated in Greek and travelled via Arabic to Chinese before making its way back to Europe, but this is implausible.)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ta??fu?n/
  • (General American) enPR: t?fo?on?, IPA(key): /ta??fun/
  • Rhymes: -u?n

Noun

typhoon (plural typhoons)

  1. A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane, which results in wind speeds of 64 knots (118 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia/Australia.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ? Russian: ??????? (tajfún)
    • ? Kazakh: ?????? (tayfwn)
  • ? Turkish: tayfun

Translations

Verb

typhoon (third-person singular simple present typhoons, present participle typhooning, simple past and past participle typhooned)

  1. (intransitive) To swirl like a hurricane.

See also

  • cyclone
  • hurricane
  • tornado

References

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typhon

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Ancient Greek ????? (Tuphôn, Typhon, father of the winds); see typhoon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ta?f?n/

Noun

typhon (plural typhons)

  1. (obsolete) A violent whirlwind; a typhoon.
    • The circling typhon whirled from point to point.

Anagrams

  • Python, phyton, python

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ti.f??/

Noun

typhon m (plural typhons)

  1. tropical cyclone, typhoon (hurricane in the Pacific)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • python, Python

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