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habba
Arabic · medieval
"to blow strongly"
meant "to blow" or "to rush"
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habub
Sudanese Arabic · 1800s
"strong wind, dust storm"
named the violent dust storms common around Khartoum
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haboob
English · 1897
"violent dust or sand storm"
entered English through descriptions of Sudanese weather, later applied to similar American dust storms from 1972
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