There was a tornado in the village.
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Tornado
//tɔɹˈneɪ.doʊ//
Synonyms for "tornado" (53 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (26)
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11 entriesrelated to
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Translations
117 translations across 78 languages.
Adyghe
1 entries- гъуэжькуий noun (violent windstorm)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λαῖλαψ noun (violent windstorm)
Arabic
1 entries- إِعْصَار noun (violent windstorm)
Armenian
1 entries- պտտահողմ noun (violent windstorm)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- burulğan noun (violent windstorm)
- qasırğa noun (violent windstorm)
- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
Bulgarian
2 entries- смерч noun (violent windstorm)
- торна̀до noun (violent windstorm)
Burmese
1 entries- လေဆင်နှာမောင်း noun (violent windstorm)
Catalan
1 entries- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
Cherokee
2 entries- ᎠᎦᎷᎦ noun (violent windstorm)
- ᎤᏃᎴ noun (violent windstorm)
Cheyenne
1 entries- hevovetāso noun (violent windstorm)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 龍捲風 /龙卷风 noun (violent windstorm)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- şeytan toyu noun (violent windstorm)
Czech
1 entries- tornádo noun (violent windstorm)
Danish
3 entries- hvirvelstorm noun (violent windstorm)
- skypumpe noun (violent windstorm)
- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
Dutch
1 entries- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
Esperanto
1 entries- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
Faroese
1 entries- melduródn noun (violent windstorm)
Finnish
3 entries- pyörremyrsky noun (violent windstorm)
- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
- trombi noun (violent windstorm)
French
1 entries- tornade noun (violent windstorm)
Georgian
1 entries- გრიალი noun (violent windstorm)
German
2 entries- Tornado noun (violent windstorm)
- Windhose noun (violent windstorm)
Greek
2 entries- ανεμοστρόβιλος noun (violent windstorm)
- σίφουνας noun (violent windstorm)
Hindi
1 entries- बवंडर noun (violent windstorm)
Hungarian
1 entries- tornádó noun (violent windstorm)
Icelandic
2 entries- hvirfilbylur noun (violent windstorm)
- skýstrokkur noun (violent windstorm)
Indonesian
1 entries- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐅᓚᔪᔭᖅ noun (violent windstorm)
Irish
1 entries- tornádó noun (violent windstorm)
Italian
2 entries- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
- tromba d'aria noun (violent windstorm)
Japanese
2 entries- トルネード noun (violent windstorm)
- 竜巻 noun (violent windstorm)
Kannada
3 entries- ತುಫಾನು noun (violent windstorm)
- ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿ noun (violent windstorm)
- ಸುಂಟರಗಾಳಿ noun (violent windstorm)
Kazakh
1 entries- құйын noun (violent windstorm)
Khmer
1 entries- ខ្យល់ព្យុះ noun (violent windstorm)
Korean
2 entries- 토네이도 noun (violent windstorm)
- 폭풍 noun (violent windstorm)
Latin
2 entries- turbō noun (violent windstorm)
- vertex noun (violent windstorm)
Latvian
1 entries- virpuļviesulis noun (violent windstorm)
Lithuanian
3 entries- tornadas noun (violent windstorm)
- trombas noun (violent windstorm)
- viesulas noun (violent windstorm)
Malagasy
1 entries- rambondanitra noun (violent windstorm)
Malay
1 entries- puting beliung noun (violent windstorm)
Malayalam
2 entries- കൊടുങ്കാറ്റ് noun (violent windstorm)
- ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റ് noun (violent windstorm)
Mingrelian
1 entries- ტორნადო noun (violent windstorm)
Mongolian
1 entries- хар салхи noun (violent windstorm)
Navajo
1 entries- níyoltsoh noun (violent windstorm)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- bablîsok noun (violent windstorm)
Northern Sotho
1 entries- sedukaduka noun (violent windstorm)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- skypumpe noun (violent windstorm)
- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
- virvelstorm noun (violent windstorm)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- kvervelstorm noun (violent windstorm)
- skypumpe noun (violent windstorm)
- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
- virvelstorm noun (violent windstorm)
O'odham
1 entries- siwulogi noun (violent windstorm)
Old English
1 entries- þoden noun (violent windstorm)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- بوراغان noun (violent windstorm)
- طولومبه noun (violent windstorm)
Persian
1 entries- گردباد noun (violent windstorm)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Wirbelstorm noun (violent windstorm)
Polish
2 entries- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
- trąba powietrzna noun (violent windstorm)
Portuguese
2 entries- ciclone noun (violent windstorm)
- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਬਵੰਡਰ noun (violent windstorm)
Romanian
1 entries- tornadă noun (violent windstorm)
Russian
2 entries- смерч noun (violent windstorm)
- торна́до noun (violent windstorm)
Samoan
1 entries- āsiosio noun (violent windstorm)
Sanskrit
1 entries- चक्रवातः noun (violent windstorm)
Scots
1 entries- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- tòrnādo noun (violent windstorm)
- то̀рна̄до noun (violent windstorm)
Spanish
4 entries- baguio noun (violent windstorm)
- ciclón noun (violent windstorm)
- huracán noun (violent windstorm)
- tifón noun (violent windstorm)
Swahili
1 entries- tufani noun (violent windstorm)
Swedish
2 entries- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
- tromb noun (violent windstorm)
Tagalog
2 entries- buhawi noun (violent windstorm)
- ipo-ipo noun (violent windstorm)
Tajik
1 entries- гирдбод noun (violent windstorm)
Tamil
1 entries- சூறாவளி noun (violent windstorm)
Telugu
3 entries- గాలికసురు noun (violent windstorm)
- గాలివాన noun (violent windstorm)
- ప్రచండమారుతము noun (violent windstorm)
Thai
1 entries- ทอร์นาโด noun (violent windstorm)
Tibetan
1 entries- རླུང་འཁོར་འཚུབ noun (violent windstorm)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ህቦብላ ንፋስ noun (violent windstorm)
Turkish
1 entries- hortum noun (violent windstorm)
Ukrainian
1 entries- смерч noun (violent windstorm)
Uyghur
1 entries- قۇيۇن noun (violent windstorm)
Uzbek
1 entries- tornado noun (violent windstorm)
Vietnamese
2 entries- lốc xoáy noun (violent windstorm)
- vòi rồng noun (violent windstorm)
Welsh
1 entries- gyrwynt noun (violent windstorm)
Yiddish
1 entries- טאָרנאַדאָ noun (violent windstorm)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The tornado destroyed the whole village.
Source: tatoeba (325504)
The tornado touched down two kilometers from my school.
Source: tatoeba (587691)
The tornado left a trail of destruction in its wake.
Source: tatoeba (696935)
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