khamsin

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noun an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring

From Egyptian Arabic خَمْسِين (ḵamsīn, “fifty”); see khamaseen for more.

We encamped not far from the shore, and had to endure a dreadful khamsin and dust-storm from the south, with such violent wind that I was blown down, and Matthaios dug our beds out twice with a trowel; and the next day we found the north wind nearly as bad. — Southern Arabia, J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent

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