Definition of Haboob

1. Noun. A violent sandstorm or dust storm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Haboob

1. a violent sandstorm [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haboob

habitualnesses
habituals
habituate
habituated
habituates
habituating
habituation
habituations
habitudes
habitue
habitues
habitus
hable
habnab
haboob (current term)
haboobs
habotai
habromania
habronaemiasis
habtm
habu
habundant
habundaunt
habus
haceck
hacecks
hacek
haceks
hacendado

Literary usage of Haboob

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"... el-haboob, the chief of the most important and the most turbulent family of the ... Beyt-haboob, who were not long since the rulers of the town, ..."

2. A narrative of captivity in Abyssinia: With Some Account of the Late Emperor by Henry Jules Blanc (1868)
"From Ain to haboob J the country is well wooded, and watered by innumerable small streams. The soil is formed of the detritus of the volcanic rocks, ..."

3. Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863). by William Gifford Palgrave (1865)
"The family haboob, already over-confident in the stone walls of their old citadel, were readily brought by this apparently dilatory conduct of ..."

4. The Story of the Captives: A Narrative of the Events of Mr. Rassam's Mission by Henry Blanc (1868)
"From Ain to haboob J the country is well wooded, and watered by innumerable small streams. The soil is formed of the detritus of the volcanic rocks, ..."

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