orkaan

== Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish huracán, ultimately from Taíno juracán; cognate with French ouragan, English hurricane (originally hurricano); German Orkan is borrowed from Dutch. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔrˈkaːn/ Hyphenation: or‧kaan Rhymes: -aːn === Noun === orkaan m or n (plural orkanen, diminutive orkaantje n) hurricane (figuratively) an uncontrollable/destructive force (figuratively) something moving extremely fast ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: orkaan Negerhollands: orkan → Danish: orkan → German: Orkan⇒ Czech: orkán→ Macedonian: оркан (orkan)→ Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic script: о̀рка̄нLatin script: òrkān ⇒ Norwegian Bokmål: orkan ⇒ Norwegian Nynorsk: orkan → Papiamentu: orkan, orkaan → Swedish: orkan === Further reading === orkaan on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl == Estonian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /orˈkɑːn/, [orˈkɑːn] Rhymes: -ɑːn === Noun === orkaan (genitive orkaani, partitive orkaani) hurricane ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “orkaan”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009