ghibli

American

[gib-lee] / ˈgɪb li /

noun

a hot dust-bearing wind of the North African desert.

ghibli British

/ ˈɡɪblɪ /

noun

a fiercely hot wind of North Africa

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Etymology

Origin of ghibli

First recorded in 1820–25; from dialectal Arabic gibli “south wind,” akin to Arabic qiblī literally, “southern”

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The operators, returning to camp, refused to make the trip as the thermometer registered 60 centigrade at five hundred meters, stating a ghibli was raging at a higher altitude.

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