"sandstorm" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-us-sandstorm.ogg Forms: sandstorms [plural]
Etymology: From sand + storm. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|sand|storm}} sand + storm Head templates: {{en-noun}} sandstorm (plural sandstorms)
  1. A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air. Wikipedia link: sandstorm Categories (topical): Weather Synonyms: duststorm, sand storm Translations (strong wind carrying clouds of sand): sandstorm (Afrikaans), عَاصِفَة رَمْلِيَّة (ʕāṣifa ramliyya) [feminine] (Arabic), ավազի փոթորիկ (avazi pʻotʻorik) (Armenian), qum fırtınası (Azerbaijani), пясча́ная бу́ра (pjasčánaja búra) [feminine] (Belarusian), пяшча́ная бу́ра (pjaščánaja búra) [feminine] (Belarusian), пясча́ная нава́льніца (pjasčánaja naválʹnica) [feminine] (Belarusian), пя́съчна бу́ря (pjásǎčna búrja) [feminine] (Bulgarian), သဲမုန်တိုင်း (sai:muntuing:) (Burmese), 沙塵暴 (Chinese Mandarin), 沙尘暴 (shāchénbào) (Chinese Mandarin), písečná bouře [feminine] (Czech), sandstorm [common-gender] (Danish), zandstorm [masculine] (Dutch), sabloŝtormo (Esperanto), liivatorm (Estonian), hiekkamyrsky (Finnish), tempête de sable [feminine] (French), Sandsturm [masculine] (German), αμμοθύελλα (ammothýella) [feminine] (Greek), homokvihar (Hungarian), sandstormur [masculine] (Icelandic), sandbylur [masculine] (Icelandic), badai pasir (Indonesian), tempesta di sabbia [feminine] (Italian), 砂嵐 (sunaarashi) (alt: すなあらし) (Japanese), шаңды дауыл (şañdy dauyl) (Kazakh), 모래폭풍 (moraepokpung) (Korean), smėlio audra [feminine] (Lithuanian), песочна бура (pesočna bura) [feminine] (Macedonian), ribut pasir (Malay), marangai kirikiri (Maori), āwhā onepū (Maori), łeezh bił hááyol (Navajo), sandstorm [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sandstorm [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), burza piaskowa [feminine] (Polish), burza pyłowa [feminine] (Polish), tempestade de areia [feminine] (Portuguese), furtună de nisip [feminine] (Romanian), песча́ная бу́ря (pesčánaja búrja) [feminine] (Russian), пустињска олуја [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), пешчана олуја [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), пјешчана олуја [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pustinjska oluja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), peščana oluja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pješčana oluja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), piesočná búrka [feminine] (Slovak), peščeni vihar [masculine] (Slovene), tormenta de arena [feminine] (Spanish), sandstorm [common-gender] (Swedish), хокбод (xokbod) (Tajik), kum fırtınası (Turkish), піща́на бу́ря (piščána búrja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), bão cát (alt: 暴𪶼) (Vietnamese)
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          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "သဲမုန်တိုင်း"
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          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "沙塵暴"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shāchénbào",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "沙尘暴"
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          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "sabloŝtormo"
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          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "liivatorm"
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          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "hiekkamyrsky"
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
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          "word": "tempête de sable"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
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          "word": "Sandsturm"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ammothýella",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
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          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
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          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
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          "code": "is",
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          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "badai pasir"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "tempesta di sabbia"
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          "alt": "すなあらし",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sunaarashi",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "砂嵐"
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          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "şañdy dauyl",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "шаңды дауыл"
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "moraepokpung",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "모래폭풍"
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          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
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          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
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          "word": "piesočná búrka"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tormenta de arena"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "sandstorm"
        },
        {
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "xokbod",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "хокбод"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "kum fırtınası"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "piščána búrja",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "піща́на бу́ря"
        },
        {
          "alt": "暴𪶼",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
          "word": "bão cát"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sandstorm"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/En-us-sandstorm.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sandstorm"
}
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sand",
        "3": "storm"
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      "name": "compound"
    }
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        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
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        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 7 entries",
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        "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Burmese translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Navajo translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tajik translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
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          "ref": "1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114 footnote:",
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      "word": "sand storm"
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "sandstorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʕāṣifa ramliyya",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "عَاصِفَة رَمْلِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "avazi pʻotʻorik",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "ավազի փոթորիկ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "qum fırtınası"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pjasčánaja búra",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пясча́ная бу́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pjaščánaja búra",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пяшча́ная бу́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pjasčánaja naválʹnica",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пясча́ная нава́льніца"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pjásǎčna búrja",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пя́съчна бу́ря"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "sai:muntuing:",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "သဲမုန်တိုင်း"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "沙塵暴"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shāchénbào",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "沙尘暴"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "písečná bouře"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sandstorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zandstorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "sabloŝtormo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "liivatorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "hiekkamyrsky"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tempête de sable"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sandsturm"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ammothýella",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αμμοθύελλα"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "homokvihar"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sandstormur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sandbylur"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "badai pasir"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tempesta di sabbia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "すなあらし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sunaarashi",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "砂嵐"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "şañdy dauyl",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "шаңды дауыл"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "moraepokpung",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "모래폭풍"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "smėlio audra"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "pesočna bura",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "песочна бура"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "ribut pasir"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "marangai kirikiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "āwhā onepū"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "łeezh bił hááyol"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sandstorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sandstorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "burza piaskowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "burza pyłowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tempestade de areia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "furtună de nisip"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pesčánaja búrja",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "песча́ная бу́ря"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пустињска олуја"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пешчана олуја"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пјешчана олуја"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pustinjska oluja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "peščana oluja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pješčana oluja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "piesočná búrka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "peščeni vihar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tormenta de arena"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sandstorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "xokbod",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "хокбод"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "kum fırtınası"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "piščána búrja",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "піща́на бу́ря"
    },
    {
      "alt": "暴𪶼",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "strong wind carrying clouds of sand",
      "word": "bão cát"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sandstorm"
}

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