khamsinn.

Brit.

/ˈkamsɪn/, U.S.

/kɑmˈsin/

Forms: 1600s camsim, 1700s–1800s campsin, (1800s kampseen), 1800s kamsin, khamsin, khamseen.

Etymology: < Arabic khamsīn, modern colloquial form (= oblique case) of khamsūn fifty (see definition).

An oppressive hot wind from the south or south-east, which in Egypt blows at intervals for about 50 days in March, April, and May, and fills the air with sand from the desert.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind > hot or warm and dry > from African and Asiatic deserts

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1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 74 in Ess. Effects Motion A kind of Dew, which..purifies the Air from all the Infection of Camsims.

1758 J. Huxham in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 428 The wind we had, like the Campsin, actually blew hot.

1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 142 The kamsin, or south wind, in Egypt and the south-west at Bagdat and Bussora, have the same properties.

1883 E. F. Knight Cruise of ‘Falcon’ I. vii. 109 The atmosphere is hot, dry, and oppressive as that of North Africa when the khamsin blows.

1923 F. S. Marvin Sci. & Civiliz. 29 Physical contrasts of seasonal and regional fertility are abrupt; solar heat contends with Nile water, sea breeze with ‘hamseen’.

attributive.1896 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 332 The hot khamseen winds parch the fields.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	khamsin
释义	khamsinn. Brit. /ˈkamsɪn/, U.S. /kɑmˈsin/ Forms: 1600s camsim, 1700s–1800s campsin, (1800s kampseen), 1800s kamsin, khamsin, khamseen. Etymology: < Arabic khamsīn, modern colloquial form (= oblique case) of khamsūn fifty (see definition). An oppressive hot wind from the south or south-east, which in Egypt blows at intervals for about 50 days in March, April, and May, and fills the air with sand from the desert. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind > hot or warm and dry > from African and Asiatic deserts harmattan1671 khamsin1685 samiel1687 simoom1763 red wind1857 loo1888 haboob1897 karaburan1903 sharav1968 1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 74 in Ess. Effects Motion A kind of Dew, which..purifies the Air from all the Infection of Camsims. 1758 J. Huxham in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 428 The wind we had, like the Campsin, actually blew hot. 1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 142 The kamsin, or south wind, in Egypt and the south-west at Bagdat and Bussora, have the same properties. 1883 E. F. Knight Cruise of ‘Falcon’ I. vii. 109 The atmosphere is hot, dry, and oppressive as that of North Africa when the khamsin blows. 1923 F. S. Marvin Sci. & Civiliz. 29 Physical contrasts of seasonal and regional fertility are abrupt; solar heat contends with Nile water, sea breeze with ‘hamseen’. attributive.1896 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 332 The hot khamseen winds parch the fields. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1685
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