tornado

Etymology
From earlier English, attested since the 1550s as a nautical term for a windy thunderstorm. From, from , from , from. The o and r were reversed in English (metathesis) under influence of, from.

Noun



 * 1)  A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

Translations

 * Adyghe: гъуэжькуий
 * Arabic: إِعْصَار
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: торна̀до, смерч
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏃᎴ, ᎠᎦᎷᎦ
 * Cheyenne: hevovetāso
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: şeytan toyu
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tornado, hvirvelstorm
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: melduródn
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გრიალი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: λαῖλαψ
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skýstrokkur, hvirfilbylur
 * Indonesian:
 * Inuktitut: ᐅᓚᔪᔭᖅ
 * Irish: tornádó
 * Italian:, tromba d'aria
 * Japanese:, トルネード
 * Kannada:, ,
 * Kazakh: құйын
 * Khmer: ខ្យល់ព្យុះ
 * Korean:, 토네이도
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin:, vertex
 * Latvian: virpuļviesulis
 * Lithuanian: viesulas,, trombas
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Mingrelian: ტორნადო
 * Mongolian: хар салхи
 * Navajo: níyoltsoh
 * Northern Sotho: sedukaduka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, skypumpe, virvelstorm
 * Nynorsk: tornado, skypumpe, kvervelstorm, virvelstorm
 * O'odham: siwulogi
 * Old English: þoden
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوراغان, طولومبه
 * Plautdietsch: Wirbelstorm
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਬਵੰਡਰ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: tornado
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: то̀рна̄до
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: buhawi, ipo-ipo
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:, గాలికసురు, ప్రచండమారుతము
 * Thai: ทอร์นาโด
 * Tibetan: རླུང་འཁོར་འཚུབ
 * Tigrinya: ህቦብላ ንፋስ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: смерч
 * Uyghur: قۇيۇن
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: gyrwynt

Verb

 * 1)  To sweep through something violently.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tornado

Etymology
From, , , , , , all derived from , from.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) tornado

Etymology
.

Etymology
From, via.

Noun

 * 1)  a

Etymology
From, via.

Noun

 * 1)  a

Etymology
.

Noun

 * , twister, whirlwind
 * 1)  tsunami
 * 2)  tsunami, flood
 * 1)  tsunami, flood
 * 1)  tsunami, flood

Declension
or

Indeclinable.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tornado

Etymology
From.

Etymology
, and this in turn from (see English etymology for details).