My in-laws had to hose off their patio after the haboob blew dust and sand all over it.
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Haboob
//hæˈbuːb//
Synonyms for "haboob" (3 found)
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27 translations across 26 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- هَبُوب noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Bihari
1 entries- हबूब noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хабу́б noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Catalan
1 entries- haboob noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Dutch
1 entries- haboob noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Esperanto
1 entries- habubo noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Finnish
1 entries- haboob noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
French
1 entries- haboob noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Galician
1 entries- habub noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
German
2 entries- Haboob noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
- Habub noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Greek
1 entries- χαμπούμπ noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Hindi
1 entries- हबूब noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Italian
1 entries- haboob noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Japanese
1 entries- ハブーブ noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Kazakh
1 entries- хабуб noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Korean
1 entries- 하부브 noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- хабуб noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Newar
1 entries- हबूब noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- haboob noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Persian
1 entries- هبوب noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Polish
1 entries- habub noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Portuguese
1 entries- habub noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Russian
1 entries- саму́м noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Slovene
1 entries- habub noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Spanish
1 entries- haboob noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
Ukrainian
1 entries- хабуб noun (violent duststorm or sandstorm)
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Near-synonym: duster
Source: wiktionary
Sandstorms were very prevalent during the first three months; they are called "Haboob." A fall in temperature of a few degrees in the hot months was always accompanied by these storms.
Source: wiktionary
In the Central Sudan storms known as "haboobs" occur. At Khartoum in 6 years 140 haboobs occurred between May and October and 35 between November and April so that they are more frequent in the rainy season. The average duration of these storms obtained from observation of 45 haboobs at Khartoum in 3½ hours.
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