riefnu
Maltese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Sicilian rèfulu, rùfulu (“a kind of coastal storm”). Compare Italian refolo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editriefnu m (plural rwiefen or rfejjen)
- gale, storm, whirlwind
- Synonym: tempesta
- 1949-1952, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Ħolma tan-Natura”, in Qasba mar-Riħ, published 1977:
- U meta tiġi x-xitwa erħilha teqred
bir-rxiex, bis-silġ, bil-bard, bir-riħ u rwiefen
il-ħlejjaq qodma: weraq sfajra u morda,
u rix mitbiela,- (please add an English translation of this quotation)