burağan

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind, tornado”) either from bur- (“to twist”) +‎ -ağan (“habitual suffix”), or derived from Proto-Turkic *bora- (“north wind; to snow heavily”), the same root of bora (“squall”).

Noun

burağan (definite accusative burağanı, plural burağanlar)

1. whirlwind, tornado, a violent windstorm characterized by the formation of a vortex of air

   Synonym: hortum

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	burağan
Definite accusative	burağanı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	burağan	burağanlar
Definite accusative	burağanı	burağanları
Dative	burağana	burağanlara
Locative	burağanda	burağanlarda
Ablative	burağandan	burağanlardan
Genitive	burağanın	burağanların

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burağan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 699