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ghibli en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɪbli/

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.

Meanings

1. sirocco
   • Strong the Ghiblee wind is blowing, / Strange and large the world is growing! 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:

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