sharqi

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English

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Etymology

From Arabic شَرْقِيّ (šarqiyy, “eastern”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: shar‧qi

Noun

sharqi (plural not attested)

  1. A hot desert wind in an Arabic country, especially in North Africa.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 47:
      Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
    • 2005, Encyclopedia of World Climatology, page 749:
      The Ghibli is a hot wind in Libya, usually blowing from the Sahara; this wind in Morocco is called the Chergui.
    • 2010, April Fast, Iraq: The Land, third edition, p. 15:
      The sharqi is a wind from the south and southeast that blows in early summer and early winter.
    • 2012, Morocco Baedecker Guide, page 24:
      The harmattan, which is also called sharqi in Morocco, is a hot wind that blows out of the interior of the Sahara.

Albanian

Noun

sharqi m (plural sharqinj, definite sharqiri, definite plural sharqinjtë)

  1. Tosk form of shalqi
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