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haboob|hæˈbuːb|
Also haboub, habub, etc.
[Arab. habūb blowing furiously.]
A violent and oppressive wind which blows at certain seasons in the Sudan, and which brings with it sand from the desert. Also transf.
1897Daily News 2 Oct. 2/1 This was a real haboob—a tornado of sand and small stones. Ibid. 4/6 A soldier that had been swept into the river by the merciless haboob. 1928Blackw. Mag. Feb. 259 May is the month of ‘haboobs’. 1936Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XL. 91 Our captains pay the greatest respect to the ‘haboobs’ of the Sudan. 1959R. E. Huschke Gloss. Meteorol. 268 Haboob (many variant spellings, including habbub, habub, haboub, hubbob, hubbub), a strong wind and sandstorm or duststorm in the northern and central Sudan, especially around Khartum, where the average number is about 24 a year. 1973Sci. Amer. Jan. 46/3 The American haboobs are not so frequent as the Sudanese (two or three a year at Phoenix as compared with perhaps 24 a year at Khartoum). |