English[edit]
A dust devil.
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compound of dust + devil.
Pronunciation[edit]
dust devil (plural dust devils)
- A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust picked up from the ground.
- Synonyms: sand pillar, (Australia) willy willy
- Coordinate terms: spout, landspout, tornado, whirlwind, whirl, thermal
A dust devil may look harmless, but a large one can overturn a car.
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Translations[edit]
a swirling dust in the air
- Catalan: remolí de sorra, dimoniet, follet (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 塵暴／尘暴 (zh) (chénbào)
- Danish: støvhvirvel c
- Dutch: stofhoos (nl) f, stofduivel (nl) m
- Finnish: pölypyörre (fi)
- French: tourbillon de poussière (fr) m
- Galician: remuíño (gl) m
- German: Kleintrombe f, Staubteufel m
- Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (el) m (anemostróvilos), σκονοδιάβολος (el) m (skonodiávolos)
- Hungarian: porördög
- Japanese: 塵旋風 (じんせんぷう, jinsenpū), ダストデビル (dasuto debiru)
- Korean: 회오리바람 (ko) (hoe'oribaram)
- Latin: vertigo f, vortex m
- Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: náátsʼǫ́ʼoołdísii
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: støvvirvel (no) m
- Plautdietsch: Wintkjriesel m
- Polish: trąba pyłowa f
- Portuguese: redemoinho (pt) m, pé-de-vento (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, tolvanera (es) f
- Swahili: kimbunga (sw)
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