cyclone

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• US: /ˈsaɪ.kloʊn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.kləʊn/
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Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sikloon — rotating system of winds
• Albanian: ciklon — rotating system of winds
• Arabic: إِعْصَار (ʔiʕṣār) — rotating system of winds
• Armenian: ցիկլոն (cʻiklon) — rotating system of winds
• Azerbaijani: siklon — rotating system of winds
• Belarusian: цыкло́н (cyklón) — rotating system of winds
• Breton: kelc'hwidenn — rotating system of winds
• Bulgarian: цикло́н (ciklón) — rotating system of winds
• Burmese: လေကတော့ (leka.tau.) — rotating system of winds
• Burmese: လေမုန်တိုင်း (lemuntuing:) — rotating system of winds
• Catalan: cicló — rotating system of winds
• Chinese Mandarin: 氣旋 /气旋 (qìxuán) — rotating system of winds
• Chinese Mandarin: 龍捲風 /龙卷风 (lóngjuǎnfēng) — rotating system of winds
• Czech: cyklón — rotating system of winds
• Czech: cyklóna — rotating system of winds
• Danish: cyklon — rotating system of winds
• Dutch: cycloon — rotating system of winds
• Dutch: wervelstorm — rotating system of winds
• Esperanto: ciklono — rotating system of winds
• Estonian: tsüklon — rotating system of winds
• Finnish: pyörremyrsky — rotating system of winds
• French: cyclone — rotating system of winds
• Georgian: ციკლონი (ciḳloni) — rotating system of winds
• German: Zyklon — rotating system of winds
• German: Zyklone — rotating system of winds
• Greek: κυκλώνας (kyklónas) — rotating system of winds
• Gujarati: ચક્રવાત (cakravāt) — rotating system of winds
• Gujarati: વાવાઝોડું (vāvājhoḍũ) — rotating system of winds
• Hebrew: צִיקְלוֹן (tsiklón) — rotating system of winds
• Hindi: चक्रवात (cakravāt) — rotating system of winds
• Hungarian: ciklon — rotating system of winds
• Indonesian: siklon — rotating system of winds
• Interlingua: cyclon — rotating system of winds
• Irish: cioclón — rotating system of winds
• Italian: ciclone — rotating system of winds
• Japanese: サイクロン (saikuron) — rotating system of winds
• Japanese: 低気圧 (teikiatsu) — rotating system of winds
• Japanese: 超低気圧 (chō teikiatsu) — rotating system of winds
• Kazakh: циклон (siklon) — rotating system of winds
• Korean: 사이클론 (saikeullon) — rotating system of winds
• Korean: 저기압 (jeogiap) — rotating system of winds
• Kyrgyz: циклон (tsiklon) — rotating system of winds
• Latvian: ciklons — rotating system of winds
• Lithuanian: ciklonas — rotating system of winds
• Macedonian: цикло́н (ciklón) — rotating system of winds
• Malay: siklon — rotating system of winds
• Maltese: ċiklun — rotating system of winds
• Maranao: dimalapang — rotating system of winds
• Mongolian: циклон (ciklon) — rotating system of winds
• Norwegian Bokmål: syklon — rotating system of winds
• Norwegian Nynorsk: syklon — rotating system of winds
• Persian: سیکلون (siklon) — rotating system of winds
• Persian: چرخند (čarxand) — rotating system of winds
• Polish: cyklon — rotating system of winds
• Portuguese: ciclone — rotating system of winds
• Romanian: ciclon — rotating system of winds
• Russian: цикло́н (ciklón) — rotating system of winds
• Sanskrit: चक्रवात (cakravāta) — rotating system of winds
• Serbo-Croatian: цѝкло̄н — rotating system of winds
• Serbo-Croatian: цикло́на — rotating system of winds
• Serbo-Croatian: cìklōn — rotating system of winds
• Serbo-Croatian: ciklóna — rotating system of winds
• Slovak: cyklón — rotating system of winds
• Slovak: cyklóna — rotating system of winds
• Slovene: ciklon — rotating system of winds
• Spanish: ciclón — rotating system of winds
• Swahili: saikloni — rotating system of winds
• Swedish: cyklon — rotating system of winds
• Tagalog: buhawi — rotating system of winds
• Tajik: тсиклон (tsiklon) — rotating system of winds
• Telugu: తుఫాను (tuphānu) — rotating system of winds
• Telugu: గాలివాన (gālivāna) — rotating system of winds
• Thai: ไซโคลน (sai-kloon) — rotating system of winds
• Turkish: siklon — rotating system of winds
• Turkmen: siklon — rotating system of winds
• Ukrainian: цикло́н (cyklón) — rotating system of winds
• Uzbek: siklon — rotating system of winds
• Vietnamese: khi xoáy thuận — rotating system of winds
• Vietnamese: khi xoáy tụ — rotating system of winds
• Vietnamese: bão — rotating system of winds
• Yiddish: ציקלאָן (tsiklon) — rotating system of winds
• Czech: cyklóna — low pressure system
• Danish: lavtryk — low pressure system
• Finnish: matalapaine — low pressure system
• Bulgarian: вихър (vihǎr) — more or less violent, small-scale circulations of air
• Bulgarian: вихрушка (vihruška) — more or less violent, small-scale circulations of air
• Finnish: pyörremyrsky — more or less violent, small-scale circulations of air
• Bulgarian: вихър (vihǎr) — strong wind
• Bulgarian: вихрушка (vihruška) — strong wind
• Chinese Mandarin: 强風 (qiángfēng) — strong wind
• Finnish: pyörremyrsky — strong wind
• Finnish: myrsky — strong wind
• Afrikaans: sikloon — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Bulgarian: циклон (ciklon) — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Danish: cyklon — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Finnish: trooppinen sykloni — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Finnish: sykloni — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• French: cyclone — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Greek: κυκλώνας (kyklónas) — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Gujarati: ચક્રવાત (cakravāt) — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Hindi: चक्रवात (cakravāt) — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Indonesian: siklon — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Norwegian Bokmål: syklon — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Norwegian Nynorsk: syklon — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Swedish: cyklon — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
• Turkish: siklon — South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon