haboobn.
/haˈbuːb/ A violent and oppressive wind which blows at certain seasons in the Sudan, and which brings with it sand from the desert. Also transferred.
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1897 Daily News 2 Oct. 2/1 This was a real haboob—a tornado of sand and small stones.
1897 Daily News 2 Oct. 4/6 A soldier that had been swept into the river by the merciless haboob.
1928 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 259 May is the month of ‘haboobs’.
1936 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 40 91 Our captains pay the greatest respect to the ‘haboobs’ of the Sudan.
1959 R. 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.
1973 Sci. 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).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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