a strong NE windstorm of the steppes of Russia and Siberia, bringing blizzards in the winter and hot dust in the summer
Origin of buran
Russian from Turkishburan
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buran
noun
A violent windstorm of the Eurasian steppes, accompanied in summer by dust and in winter by snow.
Origin of buran
Russian from Tatar buran or a kindred Turkic source Mongolian boruğan heavy rainTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Proper noun
- A Soviet spacecraft, modeled after the American Space Shuttle.
Origin
From the Russian буран (burán, “snowstorm”)
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