foehn

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /fɜːn/|/feɪn/    美 /fɝn/|/feɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.
    — The foehn and the sun must have awakened the spirits of spring way up in the heights.
  2. A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.
    — 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"

词形变化

foehns plural foen alternative föhn alternative fohn alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
foehnlike
相关词
chinook

词源

Borrowed from German Föhn, from Old High German phonno, from Vulgar Latin faōnius, an alteration of Latin favōnius (“west wind”), from Favōnius (“Roman wind god”).
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