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tufan

tufan is the obsolete spelling of typhoon.

Meaning of typhoon

Noun

typhoon (plural typhoons)

  1. A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
  2. A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia.
    • Near-synonyms: cyclone (narrow sense), hurricane
    Synonyms:
    cyclone, hurricane

See all 5 meanings of typhoon

Forms of tufan

pluraltufans

Origin of tufan

From, or an adaptation of typhoon to more closely match, Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān).

Questions about tufan

What is tufan the obsolete spelling of?
Tufan is the obsolete spelling of typhoon.

Words near tufan in the dictionary

  1. Tuesnight
  2. Tuesnights
  3. tufa
  4. tufaceous
  5. tufalike
  6. tufan
  7. Tufano
  8. Tufanos
  9. tufans
  10. tufas
  11. Tufekci

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tufan (page history and authors); typhoon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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