ghibli

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪbli/
• Rhymes: -ɪbli

Noun

ghibli (plural ghiblis)

1. (Libya) sirocco
   • 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:

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِبْلِيّ (qibliyy, “coming from the qibla”), pronounced with an initial [ɡ] in Libyan Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡi.bli/
• Rhymes: -ibli
• Hyphenation: ghì‧bli

Noun

ghibli m (invariable)

1. scirocco (a hot, dust-carrying desert wind in North Africa, somewhat similar to the foehn)