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Meanings of khamsin in English
Usage of khamsin in English
1
The heat was increasing and the desert winds brought the "khamsin" or duststorms.
2
When the khamsin blows the dust- storms upon the caravan, the camel-driver hath no care for his camels.
3
Known in Egypt as the khamsin, on the Mediterranean as the sirocco, it is called on the Guinea coast the harmattan.
4
This was, unfortunately, exposed to the north-west winds, burning winds like the mistral of Italy and Provence, the khamsin of Egypt, etc.
5
Earlier that week, a sandstorm had closed the airport - the same khamsin had peppered windows and cars in Ireland with Saharan sand.
6
It was another very hot day, with a khamsin blowing, and the hard, shelterless hill-sides were a poor place to spend it on.
7
This desolation had been thrice desolate and Egypt's glory gone like the green grass in the breath of the Khamsin!
8
During the night a Khamsin wind began to blow, though lightly as was to be expected at this season of the year.
9
There is an unfinished oratorio, "Samuel," an incomplete opera, "Hinotito," and a cantata of which only the tenor solo, "Khamsin," is done.
10
"Pestilence and Khamsin!" blustered the old man.
11
"By Allah," he said aloud abstractedly, "it is a face that will not hide when the khamsin blows!
12
"O effendi, shall the camel-driver laugh when the camels are lost in the khamsin and the water-bottle is empty?"
Frequent collocations
Khamsin through the time