ghibli
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English
Etymology
From Italian ghibli, from the Libyan Arabic form of Standard Arabic قِبْلِيّ (qibliyy, “coming from the qibla”), pronounced with an initial in Libyan Arabic.
Pronunciation
Noun
ghibli (plural ghiblis)
- (Libya) sirocco
- 1895, John Greenleaf Whittier, “Song of Slaves in the Desert”, in The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 301:
- Strong the Ghiblee wind is blowing, / Strange and large the world is growing!
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قِبْلِيّ (qibliyy, “coming from the qibla”), pronounced with an initial in Libyan Arabic.
Pronunciation
Noun
ghibli m (invariable)
- scirocco (a hot, dust-carrying desert wind in North Africa, somewhat similar to the foehn)