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sandstorm

sandstorm noun: a strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.

Noun

sandstorm (plural sandstorms)

  1. A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
    • Near-synonyms: duststorm, duster (broadly synonymous), haboob
    • There are few sights more appalling than a sandstorm in the desert, the "Zauba'ah" as the Arabs call it.1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114 footnote
    Synonyms:
    duststorm, duster[Appendix:Glossary, haboob

sandstorm meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Arabic

sandstorm in Tamil

மணற்புயல்

sandstorm in Urdu

sandstorm, dust storm
آندھی āndhī

sandstorm in Kannada

ಮರಳು ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿ, ಸಿಕತ ಮಾರುತ

sandstorm in Arabic

strong wind carrying clouds of sand
عَاصِفَة رَمْلِيَّة ʕāṣifa ramliyya
More languagesFewer languages
sandstorm in Malay
ribut pasir
sandstorm in Indonesian
badai pasir
sandstorm in Vietnamese
bão cát
sandstorm in Myanmar
သဲမုန်တိုင်း sai:muntuing:

Synonyms of sandstorm

Forms of sandstorm

pluralsandstorms
alternative formsand storm

Plural of sandstorm: sandstorms

Origin of sandstorm

From sand + storm.

Questions about sandstorm

What does sandstorm mean?
Sandstorm means a strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
What is sandstorm in Tamil?
Sandstorm in Tamil is மணற்புயல். See Sandstorm meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sandstorm?
Sandstorm is a noun.
What is the plural of sandstorm?
The plural of sandstorm is sandstorms.

Words near sandstorm in the dictionary

  1. sandstock
  2. sandstocks
  3. sandstone
  4. sandstonelike
  5. sandstones
  6. sandstorm
  7. sandstorms
  8. Sandstrom
  9. Sandstroms
  10. sandsucker
  11. sandsuckers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sandstorm (page history and authors); sandstorm (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); آندھی (Urdu) (page history and authors); sandstorm (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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