typhoon

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Word Origin & History

Tiphon "violent storm, whirlwind, tornado," 1550s, from Greek typhon "whirlwind," personified as a giant, father of the winds, perhaps from typhein "to smoke" (cf. typhus). The meaning "cyclone, violent hurricane of India or the China Seas" (1580s) is first recorded in T. Hickock's translation of an account in Italian of a voyage to the East Indies by Caesar Frederick, a merchant of Venice:

This sense of the word, in reference to titanic storms in the East Indies, first appears in Europe in Portuguese in the mid-16th century. It aparently is from tufan, a word in Arabic, Persian, and Hindi meaning "big cyclonic storm." Yule ["Hobson-Jobson," London, 1903] writes that "the probability is that Vasco [da Gama] and his followers got the tufao ... direct from the Arab pilots." The Arabic word sometimes is said to be from Greek typhon, but other sources consider it purely Semitic, though the Greek word might have influenced the form of the word in English. Al-tufan occurs several times in the Koran for "a flood or storm" and also for Noah's Flood. Chinese (Cantonese) tai fung "a great wind" also might have influenced the form or sense of the word in English, and that term and the Indian one may have had some mutual influence; toofan still means "big storm" in India.

Example Sentences for typhoon

We was heaving cargo overboard like a leaky ship in a typhoon.

And then he closed resolutely his entries: "Every appearance of a typhoon coming on."

When a typhoon is approaching vessels have to run to Cavite for shelter.

Do you think we are going wrong, or that there is a typhoon within hail?

Another time, and we were caught in a typhoon off the north coast.

When we approached Manila we were in the tail of a typhoon, but the danger was past.

All this was of as little avail as the waving of a lady's fan against a typhoon.

“We shall have a typhoon—a precious hard one too, I suspect,” he answered.

It may be that there are some persons in Britain who do not know precisely what a typhoon is.

A typhoon had caught them in its grip and threatened to send them all to Davy Jones.

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