different between typhoon vs volcano

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

English

Alternative forms

• vulcano (obsolete)

Etymology

From Italian vulcano and French volcan, from Latin Vulcanus (“Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking”). Doublet of bolcane.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v?l?ke?n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?l?ke?no?/, /v?l?ke?no?/

Noun

volcano (plural volcanoes or volcanos)

1. A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.
2. A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.

Hypernyms

• mountain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• crater
• lava
• lava flow
• magma
• vent

Verb

volcano (third-person singular simple present volcanos or volcanoes, present participle volcanoing, simple past and past participle volcanoed)

1. to erupt; to burst forth
   • 1951, Phyllis Hambledon, Nobody's Child

     She shrank back, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again

   • 2012, George Pratt, ?Peter Lambrou, ?John David Mann, Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness

     Startled, you look up at the horizon just in time to see a gigantic plume of ash and dust volcanoing up into the sky and spreading out to form a gigantic cloud that will persist for days, weeks, perhaps years.

Further reading

• volcano on Wikipedia.Wikipedia