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KHAMSIN (Arabic for " fifty ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 771 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KHAMSIN (Arabic for " fifty ")

KHAMSIN (Arabic for " fifty ") , a hot oppressive

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WIND
WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind arising in the

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SAHARA

Sahara . It blows in

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EGYPT

Egypt at intervals for about fifty days during

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APRIL

April and May, and fills the

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air with

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sand . In

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GUINEA

Guinea the wind from the Sahara is known as

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HARMATTAN

harmattan (q.v.) .

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