Significados de khamsin en inglés

The heat was increasing and the desert winds brought the "khamsin" or duststorms.

When the khamsin blows the dust- storms upon the caravan, the camel-driver hath no care for his camels.

Known in Egypt as the khamsin, on the Mediterranean as the sirocco, it is called on the Guinea coast the harmattan.

This was, unfortunately, exposed to the north-west winds, burning winds like the mistral of Italy and Provence, the khamsin of Egypt, etc.

Earlier that week, a sandstorm had closed the airport - the same khamsin had peppered windows and cars in Ireland with Saharan sand.

It was another very hot day, with a khamsin blowing, and the hard, shelterless hill-sides were a poor place to spend it on.

This desolation had been thrice desolate and Egypt's glory gone like the green grass in the breath of the Khamsin!

During the night a Khamsin wind began to blow, though lightly as was to be expected at this season of the year.

There is an unfinished oratorio, "Samuel," an incomplete opera, "Hinotito," and a cantata of which only the tenor solo, "Khamsin," is done.

"Pestilence and Khamsin!" blustered the old man.

"By Allah," he said aloud abstractedly, "it is a face that will not hide when the khamsin blows!

"O effendi, shall the camel-driver laugh when the camels are lost in the khamsin and the water-bottle is empty?"