khamsin (redirected from Hamsin)

kham·sin  (km-sn)

n.

A generally southerly hot wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt from late March to early May.

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[Arabic (r al-)amsn, (wind of the) 50 (days), khamsin, from oblique case of amsn, fifty, from ams, five; see m in Semitic roots.]

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Noun

1.

khamsin - an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring air current, current of air, wind - air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"