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ghib⋅li

[gib-lee]
–noun
a hot dust-bearing wind of the North African desert.

Origin:
< dial. Ar gibli south wind, akin to Ar qiblī lit., southern
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ghibli

hot and dusty wind descending from the interior highlands of Libya toward the Mediterranean Sea. See foehn.

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