ouragan
French
Etymology
Ultimately from Taíno *hurakā (“hurricane”), via a Caribbean form with /-ɡ-/.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ouragan m (plural ouragans)
- (weather) hurricane
Descendants
- > Saint Dominican Creole French: zouragan (inherited)
- → Norman: ouragan
- → Polish: huragan
- → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
- → Romanian: uragan
- → Russian: урага́н (uragán)
- → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Ukrainian: урага́н (urahán), гураґа́н (huragán) — 1928–1933 spelling
- → Yiddish: הוראַגאַן (huragan)
References
- ^ “ouragan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
Noun
ouragan m (plural ouragans)