different between ghibli vs sirocco

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???bli/

Noun

ghibli (plural ghiblis)

1. (Libya) sirocco

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i.bli/

Noun

ghibli m (invariable)

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

English

Alternative forms

• siroc (rare)
• scirocco

Etymology

From Italian scirocco (“south-east wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s????ko?/, /?????ko?/

Noun

sirocco (plural siroccos)

1. A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.

   Synonym: ghibli (Libya)

   • 1888 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist 1

     This tolerance and largeur of the heart that 'forgives' everything because it 'understands' everything, is sirocco for us.

   • 1814 George Gordon, Lord Byron Corsair, i:14

     But come, the board is spread ; our silver lamp / Is trimm'd, and heeds not the sirocco's damp.

2. A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.
   • (colloquial) 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, ?ISBN, page 113:

     In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.

Translations

References

• 1896 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, vol 4 p 4286

Further reading

• sirocco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scirocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?r?.ko?/
• Hyphenation: si?roc?co
• Rhymes: -?ko?

Noun

sirocco m (plural sirocco's)

1. sirocco (wind on the Mediterranean originating from North Africa)
2. (rare, dated) kiln

   Synonym: droogoven

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.??.ko/

Etymology

From Italian scirocco.

Noun

sirocco m (plural siroccos)

1. (literally and figuratively) sirocco