duststorm

See also: dust storm

English

Alternative forms

• dust storm

Etymology

dust +‎ storm

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌst.stɔːm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌst.stɔɹm/

Noun

duststorm (plural duststorms)

1. phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.

   In the early part of the 20th century, "dust bowl" storms in the central U.S. were responsible for crippling damage to the agricultural infrastructure.

   • [1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond‎^[1], volume 1, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:

     I saw a dust-storm at Kueichow which lasted for seven hours, burying some hovels and much agricultural country, and even producing a metamorphosis of the rocky bed of the Yangtze. Such storms have been observed as far east as Shanghai, but their occurrence at Kueichow shows that their area is not limited to the Great Plain or even to the region east of the mountain barrier between HUPEH and SZE CHUAN.]

Related terms

• sand storm

Translations

A storm of dust

• Arabic: عَاصِفَة الْغُبَار f (ʕāṣifat al-ḡubār), عَاصِفَة رَمْلِيَّة f (ʕāṣifa ramliyya)
• Armenian: փոշոտ փոթորիկ (pʻošot pʻotʻorik)
• Belarusian: пы́льная бу́ра f (pýlʹnaja búra)
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: støvstorm c
• Dutch: stofstorm m
• Esperanto: polvoŝtormo
• Estonian: tolmutorm, liivatorm
• French: tempête de sable (fr) f
• German: Sandsturm (de) m, Staubsturm (de) m
• Haryanvi: अँधोड़ (andhoṛ)
• Hebrew: סופת חול
• Hungarian: homokvihar (hu)
• Japanese: 砂塵嵐 (さじんあらし, sajin arashi), 砂嵐 (ja) (すなあらし, sunaarashi)
• Kazakh: шаңды дауыл (şañdy dauyl)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: støvstorm m

  Nynorsk: støvstorm m

• Persian: طوفانِ شِن (tufân-e šen)
• Polish: burza piaskowa (pl) f, burza pyłowa f
• Portuguese: tempestade de poeira f
• Russian: пы́льная бу́ря (ru) f (pýlʹnaja búrja)
• Spanish: polvareda (es) f, tormenta de polvo f
• Turkish: toz fırtınası
• Ukrainian: пилова́ бу́ря f (pylová búrja)