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Definition: Harmattan |
HarmattanNoun1. A dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the W coast of Africa during the winter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "harmattan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Harmattan \Har*mat"tan\, noun. [French expression harmattan, probably of Arabic origin.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | A dry wind blowing from a north-east or sometimes easterly direction over north-west Africa. . . . dry and relatively cool. . Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wind | Gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Harmattan |
| Specialty definitions using "harmattan": Winds. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ghana | A dry, northeasterly wind, the Harmattan, blows in January and February. (references) |
Benin | A dry wind from the Sahara called the Harmattan blows from December to March. (references) | |
Travel | Nigeria | The dry season in the north is usually dusty from Saharan winds called the Harmattan. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
harmattan l | 9 |
harmattan | 8 |
camp harmattan | 5 |
harmattan koutani | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "harmattan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | harmattan, docteur. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | armattanhay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "harmattan": harmattans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "harmattan" (pronounced hÄ'rmuta"n) |
| 3 | -t a" n | rattan, tan. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-h-m-n-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: amaranth. | |
-2 letters: maranta, tantara, tartana. | |
-3 letters: amarna, ataman, mantra, rattan, tantra, tarama, tartan. | |
-4 letters: antra, arhat, atman, attar, manat, manta, ratan, tatar, tharm. | |
-5 letters: amah, anta, atma, haar, hant, harm, hart, maar, mana, mart, math, matt, rant, rath, tahr, tarn, tart, than, that, tram. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-h-m-n-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: harmattans. | |
+4 letters: ultramarathon. | |
+5 letters: ultramarathons. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 72 6D 61 74 74 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-. -- .- - - .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110010 01101101 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a r m a t t a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0072 006D 0061 0074 0074 0061 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426784796786866780 |
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