gibli
(ˈgɪblɪ)
Also gheblee, gibleh, qibli, etc.
[ad. Arab. kiblī south wind.]
A local name in Libya for the sirocco.
| 1821 G. F. Lyon Narr. Trav. N. Afr. 94 Nothing can be more overpowering than the south wind, El Gibli. 1848 J. 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. 1857 H. Barth Trav. N. & Cent. Afr. 652 A heavy gibleh. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 481/2 It is very wind-swept and parched in summer by the terrible south wind (qibli or ‘sirocco’). 1927 W. 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.]. 1966 Punch 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). 1968 Encycl. Brit. VII. 792/1 The khamsin of Egypt (or gibleh of Libya). |