The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kamsin \Kam*sin"\, Khamsin \Kham*sin"\, n. [Ar. khams[=i]n, fr. khams[=u]n, oblique case khams[=i]n, fifty; -- so called because it blows for about fifty days, from April till June.] A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.
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n. (alternative spelling of khamsin English)
Usage examples of "khamseen".
She was coated with the silky powder of khamseen, but when she put the flashlight on the washbasin and turned the taps she saw, fascinated, that the sand collected in the edges of the water as fast as it ran into the bowl.
That is to say, in his obligation to look in on her and see that she was not inconvenienced by one thing and another such as this execrable khamseen which fortunately Tunisia did not often experience, as it was usually found in Algerie and Maroc and other vaguely uncouth areas.
Another one of those freaky Arab experiments: a tour in the khamseen, whether it could actually be done or not.
Once or twice he threw the car door open to look back and see where they were going, and each time the khamseen roared through.
The whole thing was the usual setup, but he had made it so complicated, driving around in a howling khamseen just to find a place to get started, that she really loved him for it.
And with the khamseen blowing all around them, a thousand miles from anyplace, how turned on could you get?
Every once in a while the khamseen crashed and batted about in the garden and blew something over on the terrace but they paid no attention, only lifting their voices a little to keep the conversation flowing.
Swede, who seemed to be in his well-weathered forties, could remember a famous khamseen of the past that had blown for eight days.
The terrible summer had all started with the big khamseen of June, a very bad omen.
The whole damned thing is full of crap, left over from the khamseen in the spring.
The last time they had been downstairs in the fountain courtyard with only a couple of dirty cushions under them, and the tile floor and everything had been full of old khamseen dust.
It was the first summer khamseen of the year, and for the moment I wished I had gone north with the tourist and the quail and the billiard marker, for khamseen fetches the marrow out of the bones, and turns the body to blotting paper.
Besides, except for the heat, flies, septic sores, the khamseen, bad water, dysentery, vaccination, inoculations many and various, digging holes, and a depressing sameness about the scenery, we had, according to some, little to grumble at.
The sand is continually silting, and a khamseen may alter the whole surface of the land, yet to the eye it remains substantially the same.