karaburan means A hot dusty northeasterly wind in the Tarim Basin in Central Asia. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “karaburan” is a great word
KARABURAN — [Noun] A hot, dusty, oppressive northeasterly wind that sweeps across the Tarim Basin in Central Asia. From a Turkic language, from Proto-Turkic *kara ("black") and *bora(n) ("north wind"), hence "black wind" or "black storm". First attested in English in 1903. Unlike the *buran* (a biting winter blizzard) or the *sirocco* (a Mediterranean breath freighted with Saharan dust), the karaburan is a searing, seasonal plague of grit. It is the sun blotted to a dull copper coin, the taste of powdered clay between the teeth, and the sound of a million sand grains hissing against the ruins of a mud-brick wall—a wind that does not cleanse, but bears the desert’s slow, patient burial.
Etymology
From a term in some Turkic language roughly meaning "black wind": see Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”), *bora(n) (“north wind”).
noun
- A hot dusty northeasterly wind in the Tarim Basin in Central Asia.