different between kamseen vs khamsin

English

kamseen (plural kamseens)

From Egyptian Arabic ????????? (?ams?n, “fifty”).

khamsin (plural khamsins)

A hot wind in Egypt which blows (for about 50 days) from the desert, bringing with it sand.
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber 1968, p. 121:
  That second spring the khamseen was worse than I have ever known it before or since.

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