sandstorm

See also: sand storm

English

Alternative forms

• sand storm

Etymology

sand +‎ storm

Pronunciation

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Noun

sandstorm (plural sandstorms)

1. A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114 footnote:

     There are few sights more appalling than a sandstorm in the desert, the "Zauba'ah" as the Arabs call it.

Synonyms

• duststorm

Translations

strong wind carrying clouds of sand

• Afrikaans: sandstorm
• Arabic: عَاصِفَة رَمْلِيَّة f (ʕāṣifa ramliyya)
• Armenian: ավազի փոթորիկ (avazi pʻotʻorik)
• Azerbaijani: qum fırtınası
• Belarusian: пясча́ная бу́ра f (pjasčánaja búra), пяшча́ная бу́ра f (pjaščánaja búra), пясча́ная нава́льніца f (pjasčánaja naválʹnica)
• Bulgarian: пя́съчна бу́ря f (pjásǎčna búrja)
• Burmese: သဲမုန်တိုင်း (sai:muntuing:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙塵暴／沙尘暴 (zh) (shāchénbào)

• Czech: písečná bouře f
• Danish: sandstorm (da) c
• Dutch: zandstorm (nl) m
• Esperanto: sabloŝtormo
• Estonian: liivatorm
• Finnish: hiekkamyrsky (fi)
• French: tempête de sable (fr) f
• German: Sandsturm (de) m
• Greek: αμμοθύελλα (el) f (ammothýella)
• Hungarian: homokvihar (hu)
• Icelandic: sandstormur (is) m, sandbylur (is) m
• Indonesian: badai pasir
• Italian: tempesta di sabbia f
• Japanese: 砂嵐 (ja) (すなあらし, sunaarashi)
• Kazakh: шаңды дауыл (şañdy dauyl)
• Korean: 모래폭풍 (moraepokpung)
• Lithuanian: smėlio audra f
• Macedonian: песочна бура f (pesočna bura)
• Malay: ribut pasir
• Maori: marangai kirikiri, āwhā onepū
• Navajo: łeezh bił hááyol
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sandstorm m

  Nynorsk: sandstorm m

• Polish: burza piaskowa (pl) f, burza pyłowa f
• Portuguese: tempestade de areia f
• Romanian: furtună de nisip f
• Russian: песча́ная бу́ря f (pesčánaja búrja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пустињска олуја f, пешчана олуја f, пјешчана олуја f

  Roman: pustinjska oluja f, peščana oluja f, pješčana oluja f

• Slovak: piesočná búrka f
• Slovene: peščeni vihar m
• Spanish: tormenta de arena f
• Swedish: sandstorm (sv) c
• Tajik: хокбод (xokbod)
• Turkish: kum fırtınası
• Ukrainian: піща́на бу́ря f (piščána búrja)
• Vietnamese: bão cát (暴𪶼)

Anagrams

• Sandstrom

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zandstorm. Equivalent to sand +‎ storm.

Noun

sandstorm (plural sandstorms)

1. sandstorm

Danish

Etymology

From sand +‎ storm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanstɔrm/, [ˈsanˌsd̥ɒˀm]

Noun

sandstorm c (singular definite sandstormen, plural indefinite sandstorme)

1. sandstorm

Inflection

Declension of sandstorm

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sandstorm	sandstormen	sandstorme	sandstormene
genitive	sandstorms	sandstormens	sandstormes	sandstormenes

See also

• sandstorm on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Icelandic

Noun

sandstorm

1. indefinite accusative singular of sandstormur

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From sand +‎ storm.

Noun

sandstorm m (definite singular sandstormen, indefinite plural sandstormer, definite plural sandstormene)

1. a sandstorm

Related terms

• støvstorm

References

• “sandstorm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From sand +‎ storm.

Noun

sandstorm m (definite singular sandstormen, indefinite plural sandstormar, definite plural sandstormane)

1. a sandstorm

Related terms

• støvstorm

References

• “sandstorm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

sandstorm c

1. sandstorm

Declension

Declension of sandstorm
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sandstorm	sandstormen	sandstormar	sandstormarna
Genitive	sandstorms	sandstormens	sandstormars	sandstormarnas