Definition of Burans

1. buran [n] - See also: buran

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burans

bur-
bur-reed family
bur block
bur blocks
bur drill
bur fish
bur marigold
bur marigolds
bur oak
bur reed
buraku
burakumin
buran
burangaite
burans (current term)
buras
burb
burbankite
burble
burbled
burbler
burblers
burbles
burblier
burbliest
burbling
burblings
burbly
burbolt

Literary usage of Burans

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

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"218 §, 225 t Snow-burans of Pamirs. XI. 242 Snowfall in Finland, Observations on, I. 545 Snow-layer in Austrian Alps, ..."

2. Through Asia by Sven Anders Hedin (1899)
"In March and June come the sarik-burans, or "yellow sand-storms," which, although less violent, nevertheless possess an enormous carrying capacity. ..."

3. Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan: Personal Narrative of a Journey of by Mark Aurel Stein (1904)
"The season of burans had now fully set in, and the gales that were blowing daily, though from different quarters and of varying degrees of violence, ..."

4. Civilization and Climate by Ellsworth Huntington (1915)
"The burans, as they are called, are even worse than our western blizzards, ... Only when the burans are at an end and the milder storms of the late spring ..."

5. Recherches de pathologie comparée by Karl Friedrich von Heusinger (1853)
"439 et III, 643), à Orenburg ces burans d'élé sont malsains, cependant pas délétères comme les burans d'hiver (Hel- mersen Reise in d. Ural. I, p. 170). ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... burans. The wind docs blow also from the NE, but it is then cold and often brings snow, though it speedily clears the air of the everlasting dust haze. ..."

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