sandstorm
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sandstorm (plural sandstorms)
- 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
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[edit]strong wind carrying clouds of sand
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Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch zandstorm. Equivalent to sand + storm.
Noun
[edit]sandstorm (plural sandstorms)
Danish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sandstorm c (singular definite sandstormen, plural indefinite sandstorme)
Inflection
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common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sandstorm | sandstormen | sandstorme | sandstormene |
genitive | sandstorms | sandstormens | sandstormes | sandstormenes |
See also
[edit]- sandstorm on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Icelandic
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[edit]sandstorm
Norwegian Bokmål
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sandstorm m (definite singular sandstormen, indefinite plural sandstormer, definite plural sandstormene)
Related terms
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[edit]- “sandstorm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sandstorm m (definite singular sandstormen, indefinite plural sandstormar, definite plural sandstormane)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “sandstorm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]sandstorm c
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | sandstorm | sandstorms |
definite | sandstormen | sandstormens | |
plural | indefinite | sandstormar | sandstormars |
definite | sandstormarna | sandstormarnas |
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