English
Etymology
Compound of dust + devil.
Pronunciation
Noun
dust devil (plural dust devils)
- A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust (or dirt or sand) picked up from the ground.
- Synonym: dirt devil
- Hypernyms: spout, vortex
- Coordinate terms: landspout; waterspout; thermal; tornado
- Near-synonyms: whirlwind, whirl, sandspout, sand pillar, willy willy (Australia)
A dust devil may look harmless, but a large one can overturn a car.
Translations
a swirling dust in the air
- Catalan: remolí de sorra, dimoniet, follet (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 塵暴 / 尘暴 (zh) (chénbào)
- Danish: støvhvirvel c
- Dutch: stofhoos (nl) f, stofduivel (nl) m
- Finnish: pölypyörre (fi)
- French: tourbillon de poussière (fr) m
- Galician: remuíño (gl) m
- German: Kleintrombe f, Staubteufel m
- Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (el) m (anemostróvilos), σκονοδιάβολος (el) m (skonodiávolos)
- Hungarian: porördög
- Japanese: 塵旋風 (じんせんぷう, jinsenpū), ダストデビル (dasuto debiru)
- Korean: 회오리바람 (ko) (hoe'oribaram)
- Latin: vertigo f, vortex m
- Macedonian: прашински виор m (prašinski vior)
- Navajo: náátsʼǫ́ʼoołdísii
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: støvvirvel (no) m
- Plautdietsch: Wintkjriesel m
- Polish: trąba pyłowa f
- Portuguese: redemoinho (pt) m, pé-de-vento (pt) m
- Russian: пылево́й вихрь m (pylevój vixrʹ), пы́льный вихрь m (pýlʹnyj vixrʹ), песча́ный вихрь m (pesčányj vixrʹ)
- Spanish: torbellino de polvo m, remolino de polvo m, tolvanera (es) f
- Swahili: kimbunga (sw)
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