The foehn and the sun must have awakened the spirits of spring way up in the heights.
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Foehn
//fɝn//
Synonyms for "foehn" (4 found)
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32 translations across 18 languages.
Chinese
1 entries- 火燒風 /火烧风 noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 焚風 /焚风 noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
Czech
2 entries- fén noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- fén noun (any similar wind)
Danish
2 entries- føn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- føn noun (any similar wind)
Dutch
2 entries- föhn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- föhnwind noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
Finnish
3 entries- föhn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- föhn-tuuli noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- föhn-tuuli noun (any similar wind)
French
1 entries- foehn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
German
2 entries- Föhn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- Föön noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
Greek
1 entries- φόεν noun (any similar wind)
Greenlandic
1 entries- nunasarneq noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
Hungarian
2 entries- főn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- főn noun (any similar wind)
Italian
4 entries- favonio noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- favonio noun (any similar wind)
- föhn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- föhn noun (any similar wind)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- føn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- fønvind noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- føn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- fønvind noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
Polish
2 entries- fen noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- fen noun (any similar wind)
Russian
2 entries- фён noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
- фён noun (any similar wind)
Slovak
1 entries- föhn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
Vietnamese
1 entries- gió phơn noun (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
Sample sentences
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The foehns of the northern Alps are world-renowned for the formation of thermal belts on the alp terraces above the deep, U-shaped, glaciated valleys. Here the foehn phenomenon was first identified and the German word for "fall" or "descent" applied to it.
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The foehn, I learned, was first recorded in the Alps but is found all over the world. The Santa Anas contain the occasional foehn, nicknamed “murder winds” and immortalized in Joan Didion's 1965 essay “Los Angeles Notebook"
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This is particularly noticeable in Foehn winds—warm winds that descend from mountainous areas down to areas of lower elevation. Wind patterns considered Foehn include the dry southerly wind blowing through the Alps, Switzerland and across southern Germany. The Sharav or Hamsin winds blowing through the desert in the Middle East are also Foehn winds. The Sirocco winds that blow through Italy and the Mistral winds that blow through southern France are both considered Foehns.
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