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English word hurricane comes from Taino juracán, Arawak hurakán, and later Spanish huracán (Hurricane.)

juracán (Taino)

hurakán (Arawak)

huracán (Spanish)

Hurricane.

hurricane (English)

(meteorology) a wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm. A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.

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