tornado

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• UK: tô(r)-nā'dō
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• UK: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/
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• US: /tɔɹˈneɪ.doʊ/
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• CMU ARPABET: T AO0 R N EY1 D OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From earlier English ternado, attested since the 1550s as a nautical term for a windy thunderstorm. From Spanish tronada (“thunderstorm”), from tronar (“to thunder”), from Latin tonō (“to thunder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh2- (“to thunder”). The o and r were reversed in English (metathesis) under influence of Spanish tornar (“to twist, to turn”), from Latin tornō (“to turn”).

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِعْصَار (ʔiʕṣār) — violent windstorm
• Armenian: պտտահողմ (pttahoġm) — violent windstorm
• Azerbaijani: tornado — violent windstorm
• Azerbaijani: qasırğa — violent windstorm
• Azerbaijani: burulğan — violent windstorm
• Bulgarian: торна̀до (tornàdo) — violent windstorm
• Bulgarian: смерч (smerč) — violent windstorm
• Burmese: လေဆင်နှာမောင်း (lehcanghnamaung:) — violent windstorm
• Catalan: tornado — violent windstorm
• Cherokee: ᎤᏃᎴ (unole) — violent windstorm
• Cherokee: ᎠᎦᎷᎦ (agaluga) — violent windstorm
• Cheyenne: hevovetāso — violent windstorm
• Chinese Mandarin: 龍捲風 /龙卷风 (lǒngjuǎnfēng) — violent windstorm
• West Circassian: гъуэжькуий (ğwɛźkwujij) — violent windstorm
• Crimean Tatar: şeytan toyu — violent windstorm
• Czech: tornádo — violent windstorm
• Danish: tornado — violent windstorm
• Danish: hvirvelstorm — violent windstorm
• Danish: skypumpe — violent windstorm
• Dutch: tornado — violent windstorm
• Esperanto: tornado — violent windstorm
• Faroese: melduródn — violent windstorm
• Finnish: tornado — violent windstorm
• Finnish: trombi — violent windstorm
• Finnish: pyörremyrsky — violent windstorm
• French: tornade — violent windstorm
• Georgian: გრიალი (griali) — violent windstorm
• German: Tornado — violent windstorm
• German: Windhose — violent windstorm
• Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (anemostróvilos) — violent windstorm
• Greek: σίφουνας (sífounas) — violent windstorm
• Ancient Greek: λαῖλαψ (laîlaps) — violent windstorm
• Hindi: बवंडर (bavaṇḍar) — violent windstorm
• Hungarian: tornádó — violent windstorm
• Icelandic: skýstrokkur — violent windstorm
• Icelandic: hvirfilbylur — violent windstorm
• Indonesian: tornado — violent windstorm
• Inuktitut: ᐅᓚᔪᔭᖅ (olayoyaq) — violent windstorm
• Irish: tornádó — violent windstorm
• Italian: tornado — violent windstorm
• Italian: tromba d'aria — violent windstorm
• Japanese: 竜巻 (tatsumaki) — violent windstorm
• Japanese: トルネード (torunēdo) — violent windstorm
• Kannada: ತುಫಾನು (tuphānu) — violent windstorm
• Kannada: ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿ (birugāḷi) — violent windstorm
• Kannada: ಸುಂಟರಗಾಳಿ (suṇṭaragāḷi) — violent windstorm
• Kazakh: құйын (qūiyn) — violent windstorm
• Khmer: ខ្យល់ព្យុះ (khyɑl pyuh) — violent windstorm
• Korean: 폭풍 (pokpung) — violent windstorm
• Korean: 토네이도 (toneido) — violent windstorm
• Northern Kurdish: bablîsok — violent windstorm
• Latin: turbō — violent windstorm
• Latin: vertex — violent windstorm
• Latvian: virpuļviesulis — violent windstorm
• Lithuanian: viesulas — violent windstorm
• Lithuanian: tornadas — violent windstorm
• Lithuanian: trombas — violent windstorm
• Malagasy: rambondanitra — violent windstorm
• Malay: puting beliung — violent windstorm
• Malayalam: ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റ് (cuḻalikkāṟṟŭ) — violent windstorm
• Malayalam: കൊടുങ്കാറ്റ് (koṭuṅkāṟṟŭ) — violent windstorm
• Mingrelian: ტორნადო (ṭornado) — violent windstorm
• Mongolian: хар салхи (xar salxi) — violent windstorm
• Navajo: níyoltsoh — violent windstorm
• Northern Sotho: sedukaduka — violent windstorm
• Norwegian Bokmål: tornado — violent windstorm
• Norwegian Bokmål: skypumpe — violent windstorm
• Norwegian Bokmål: virvelstorm — violent windstorm
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tornado — violent windstorm
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skypumpe — violent windstorm
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvervelstorm — violent windstorm
• Norwegian Nynorsk: virvelstorm — violent windstorm
• Old English: þoden — violent windstorm
• O'odham: siwulogi — violent windstorm
• Persian: گردباد (gerdbâd) — violent windstorm
• Plautdietsch: Wirbelstorm — violent windstorm
• Polish: trąba powietrzna — violent windstorm
• Polish: tornado — violent windstorm
• Portuguese: ciclone — violent windstorm
• Portuguese: tornado — violent windstorm
• Punjabi: ਬਵੰਡਰ (bavaṇḍar) — violent windstorm
• Romanian: tornadă — violent windstorm
• Russian: смерч (smerč) — violent windstorm
• Russian: торна́до (tornádo) — violent windstorm
• Samoan: āsiosio — violent windstorm
• Sanskrit: चक्रवातः (cakravātaḥ) — violent windstorm
• Scots: tornado — violent windstorm
• Serbo-Croatian: то̀рна̄до — violent windstorm
• Serbo-Croatian: tòrnādo — violent windstorm
• Spanish: tornado — violent windstorm
• Spanish: ciclón — violent windstorm
• Spanish: tifón — violent windstorm
• Spanish: huracán — violent windstorm
• Spanish: baguio — violent windstorm
• Swahili: tufani — violent windstorm
• Swedish: tornado — violent windstorm
• Swedish: tromb — violent windstorm
• Tagalog: buhawi — violent windstorm
• Tagalog: ipo-ipo — violent windstorm
• Tajik: гирдбод (girdbod) — violent windstorm
• Tamil: சூறாவளி (cūṟāvaḷi) — violent windstorm
• Telugu: గాలివాన (gālivāna) — violent windstorm
• Telugu: గాలికసురు (gālikasuru) — violent windstorm
• Telugu: ప్రచండమారుతము (pracaṇḍamārutamu) — violent windstorm
• Thai: ทอร์นาโด (tɔɔ-naa-doo) — violent windstorm
• Tibetan: རླུང་འཁོར་འཚུབ (rlung 'khor 'tshub) — violent windstorm
• Tigrinya: ህቦብላ ንፋስ (həbobla nəfas) — violent windstorm
• Turkish: hortum — violent windstorm
• Ottoman Turkish: بوراغان (burağan) — violent windstorm
• Ottoman Turkish: طولومبه (tulumba) — violent windstorm
• Ukrainian: смерч (smerč) — violent windstorm
• Uyghur: قۇيۇن (quyun) — violent windstorm
• Uzbek: tornado — violent windstorm
• Vietnamese: vòi rồng — violent windstorm
• Vietnamese: lốc xoáy — violent windstorm
• Welsh: gyrwynt — violent windstorm
• Yiddish: טאָרנאַדאָ (tornado) — violent windstorm