χαμσίνι

χαμσίνι

Greek

Alternative forms

• χαμσίν (chamsín), χαμψίν (champsín) (indeclinable)
• χαμψίνι (champsíni)

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic خَمْسِين‎ (ḵamsīn) (the wind of fifty days) + -ι (-i, suffix for neutrals)[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xam.si.ni/
• Hyphenation: χαμ‧σί‧νι

Noun

χαμσίνι • (chamsíni) n (plural χαμσίνια)

1. (Standard Modern Greek, Egyptiot Dialect) khamsin, a hot wind in Egypt which blows (for about 50 days) from the desert, bringing with it sand.

Declension

declension of χαμσίνι

	singular	plural
nominative	χαμσίνι •	χαμσίνια •
genitive	χαμσινιού •	χαμσινιών •
accusative	χαμσίνι •	χαμσίνια •
vocative	χαμσίνι •	χαμσίνια •
The genitives (especially of plural) are rare.

References

1. χαμσίνι in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.