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gibli|ˈgɪblɪ|
Also gheblee, gibleh, qibli, etc.
[ad. Arab. kiblī south wind.]
A local name in Libya for the sirocco.
1821G. F. Lyon Narr. Trav. N. Afr. 94 Nothing can be more overpowering than the south wind, El Gibli. 1848J. Richardson Travels I. 17 A ghiblee day. The wind from The Desert is coming with a vengeance. 1853― Narr. Mission Cent. Afr. 61 Under the enervating influence of the gheblee, or hot wind. 1857H. Barth Trav. N. & Cent. Afr. 652 A heavy gibleh. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 481/2 It is very wind-swept and parched in summer by the terrible south wind (qibli or ‘sirocco’). 1927W. Kendrew Clim. Cont. (ed. 2) xxxi. 240 The Sirocco..has naturally received local names, in south-east Spain levèche, in Algeria sirocco, in Tunis chili, in Tripoli gibli, [etc.]. 1966Punch 29 June 965/3 Her steadfastly sunny outlook even in the middle of a ghibli (khamsin or sirocco, by any other name as blinding and painful). 1968Encycl. Brit. VII. 792/1 The khamsin of Egypt (or gibleh of Libya). |