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‖ karaburan|kærəˈbjʊərən|
[Turk., f. kara black + buran whirlwind.]
A hot dusty wind in Central Asia.
1903J. T. Bealby tr. Hedin's Cent. Asia & Tibet I. xx. 331 The first real kara-buran, or ‘black tempest’,..came..early... Drift-sand and dust swept down the Tarim and made the air so thick that we were unable to see the steep dune which faced us. 1931A. A. Miller Climatol. xiii. 243 Strong winds from almost any point of the compass spring up by day, carrying clouds of dust and sand... The karaburan is of this type, blowing strongly from the north-east in the Tarim basin. 1949W. Moore Dict. Geogr. 90 The sand blown along by the karaburan is one of the principal causes of the changes in the courses of rivers through the desert. |