maelstrom

Etymology


The word was originally the name of a giant whirlpool supposed to exist off the west coast of Norway in the Arctic Ocean which was said to destroy all ships that came close to it. It is borrowed from early modern  (modern 🇨🇬), from  (ultimately from ) +  (ultimately from ), and was popularized by ’s short story  (1841).



Noun

 * 1) A large and violent whirlpool.
 * 2)  A chaotic or turbulent situation.
 * 1)  A chaotic or turbulent situation.
 * 1)  A chaotic or turbulent situation.
 * 1)  A chaotic or turbulent situation.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: вір, водаварот
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: lilo
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cyrillic: ковѝтлац, вир, вр̀тлог
 * Danish: malstrøm
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: akvokirlo, akvoturno, malstromo
 * Estonian: maelström
 * Faroese: malustreymur, meldur, meldurstreymur
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: მორევი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: straumröst
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: 狂瀾怒涛, 大渦巻き
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: ви́тел, водо́вртеж
 * Middle Dutch: wiel
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: malstraum
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Roman:, ,
 * Rumanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: vír
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Belarusian: вір, водаварот
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Japanese: 狂瀾怒涛
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: водо́вртеж
 * Norwegian:, malstraum, mælstrøm
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ковѝтлац, вр̀тлог
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
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