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French "typhon" comes from Latin "typhon" (strong wind), itself from ancient greek Τυφῶν (tuphon). It enters the French vocabulary in the 16th century via the Portuguese word "tufão", brought back to Europe by Portuguese sailors who got it from South Asian or East Asia
It turns out that the greek word had previously made its way into Persian (tūfān) and from there, to Arabic and Hindi. It may have travelled as far east as Malaysia. And that's the word the Portuguese brought back. Like genealogy, etymology isn't a tree -- it's a graph.
Meanwhile, China has the word 颱風 (táifēng) with basically the same meaning. Pronounced "taifung" in Cantonese. Which transferred to Japanese as 台風. Did the Chinese word come from the Hindi & Arabic word, which itself came from Greek? Can't say for sure, but it seems likely.
In conclusion: if you ever wonder where something comes from, the answer is usually "from 5th century BC Greece"
Yes, tufan is Persian. Its Persian version is طوفان
Too fun!
All is one, one is all. Everything converges to one unknown point. #philosophy 
Probably because of merchants in the ancient world, traveling by sea, they needed to know things by name about weather phenomena.
Same word, "tufan", ended up in Turkish, too. It appears in Turkish poems around 1300s. Still used in modern Turkish. And I've just learned its connection to "typhoon" ("tayfun" in Turkish). What a linguistic journey!
Google displays an illustration of the word's origin! Its Arabic version ṭūfān comes from the Arabic word ṭāfa which means to flood or overflow (thus StackOverflow :p), it was mentioned in the Quran (since the 7th century) to describe the story of Noah's Flood.pic.twitter.com/RvRat3YWYp
Then for sure you will like the history of orange. It includes both etymology and genealogy.
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