Ghibli

//ˈɡɪbli// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    sirocco

    "Strong the Ghiblee wind is blowing, / Strange and large the world is growing!"

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sirocco

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"Strong the Ghiblee wind is blowing, / Strange and large the world is growing!"

Etymology

From Italian ghibli, from the Libyan Arabic form of Standard Arabic قِبْلِيّ (qibliyy, “coming from the qibla”), pronounced with an initial [ɡ] in Libyan Arabic. Distant doublet of cabal.

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