sandstorm

See also: sand storm

English

Alternative forms

• sand storm

Pronunciation

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Etymology

sand +‎ storm

Noun

sandstorm (plural sandstorms)

1. A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.

Synonyms

• duststorm

Translations

strong wind carrying clouds of sand

• Afrikaans: sandstorm
• Arabic: عَاصِفَة رَمْلِيَّة f (ʿāṣifa ramliyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙塵暴／沙尘暴 (zh) (shāchénbào), 沙尘暴 (zh) (shāchénbào)

• Czech: písečná bouře f
• Danish: sandstorm (da) c
• Dutch: zandstorm (nl)
• 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), sandbylur (is)
• Indonesian: badai pasir
• Italian: tempesta di sabbia
• Japanese: 砂嵐 (すなあらし, sunaarashi)
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• Kazakh: шаңды дауыл (şañdy dauyl)
• Korean: 모래폭풍 (moraepokpung)
• Malay: ribut pasir
• Maori: marangai kirikiri
• Navajo: łeezh bił hááyol
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sandstorm m

  Nynorsk: sandstorm m

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

  Cyrillic: пустињска олуја f

  Roman: pustinjska oluja f, pješčana oluja f

• Spanish: tormenta de arena f
• Swedish: sandstorm c
• Turkish: kum fırtınası
• Vietnamese: bão cát

Anagrams

• Sandstrom

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zandstorm. Equivalent to sand +‎ storm.

Noun

sandstorm (plural sandstorms)

1. sandstorm

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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

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Icelandic

Noun

1. indefinite accusative singular of sandstormur

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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.

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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.

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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