1733, Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd Sīrāfī, Ancient Accounts of India and China, page 11:
But although this Word is originally Greek, and signifies rather a Storm attended with Thunder than a Tufan or Hurrican, during which the Wind shall shift to every Point of the Compass; yet the Arabs derive it from a Word of theirs[…]
1837, Henry Harpur Spry, Modern India: With Illustrations of the Resources and Capabilities of Hindustan In Two Volumes, page 235:
[…] by the stormy force of the tufans and other tropical gales,[…]
1850, Fanny Parks, Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, During Four-and-twenty Years in the East: With Revelations of Life in the Zenāna, page 53:
I have not much faith in her weathering such a tufan at all, exposed as she is to the power of the stream and the force of the tempest. High and deep clouds of dust come rushing along the ground, which, soaring into the highest[…]
2007 October 1, Eusebio L. Rodrigues, Love and Samsara, New Acdemia+ORM, →ISBN:
No, no, a tufan will begin tomorrow, I shouted. They didn't mention anything about a tufan, the announcer said, and turned to his companion. You brought in the weather announcement. No, of course not, the assistant said, wrinkling his[…]
