dust devil

English

Noun

dust devil (plural dust devils)

1. A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust picked up from the ground.

   A dust devil may look harmless, but a large one can overturn a car.

Synonyms

• sand pillar
• willy willy (Australia)

Translations

a swirling dust in the air

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塵暴／尘暴 (zh) (chénbào), 尘暴 (zh) (chénbào)

• Danish: støvhvirvel c
• Dutch: stofhoos (nl) f, stofduivel (nl) m
• Finnish: pölypyörre (fi)
• French: tourbillon de poussière m
• Galician: remuíño m
• German: Kleintrombe f, Staubteufel m
• Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (el) m (anemostróvilos)
• Hungarian: porördög
• Japanese: 塵旋風 (じんせんぷう, jinsenpū), ダストデビル (dasuto debiru)
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• Latin: vertigo f, vortex m
• Navajo: náátsʼǫ́ʼoołdísii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: støvvirvel (no) m

• Polish: trąba pyłowa f
• Portuguese: redemoinho (pt) m
• Russian: пылево́й вихрь m (pylevój vixrʹ), пы́льный вихрь m (pýlʹnyj vixrʹ), песча́ный вихрь m (pesčányj vixrʹ)
• Spanish: torbellino de polvo m, remolino de polvo m
• Swahili: kimbunga (sw)

See also

• cyclone
• hurricane
• tornado

Further reading

• dust devil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia