dust devil

English

Noun

dust devil (plural dust devils)

A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust picked up from the ground.
A dust devil may look harmless, but a large one can overturn a car.

Synonyms

sand pillar
willy willy (Australia)

Translations

a swirling dust in the air

Chinese:
Mandarin: 塵暴 (zh), 尘暴 (zh) (chénbào)
Dutch: stofhoos (nl) f, stofduivel (nl) m
Finnish: pölypyörre (fi)
French: tourbillon de poussière (fr) m
Galician: remuíño m
German: Kleintrombe f, Staubteufel m
Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (el) m (anemostróvilos)
Japanese: 塵旋風 (じんせんぷう, jinsenpū), ダストデビル (dasuto debiru)

Latin: vertigo f, vortex m
Navajo: náátsʼǫ́ʼoołdísii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: støvvirvel (no) m
Polish: trąba pyłowa f
Portuguese: redemoinho (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
Swahili: kimbunga (sw)

See also

Further reading

dust devil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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