Letters from Egypt
TL;DR: Various sources, including the BBC's weather Web site, the Encyclopedia Britannica and 2 dictionaries, all attribute the origin of the word “khamsin” to the Arabic term for “fifty.”
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Abstract: Various sources, including the BBC's weather Web site,[1][1] the Encyclopedia Britannica [2][2] and 2 dictionaries (one in English[3][3] and the other a standard Arab–English work[4][4]) all attribute the origin of the word “khamsin” to the Arabic term for “fifty.” This approximates the
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