Sarsar

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English

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Etymology

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From Arabic صَرْصَر (ṣarṣar).

Noun

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Sarsar (plural Sarsars)

  1. a harsh wind that whistles
    • 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
      He went, and darker grew
      The deepening cloud above.
      At length it open’d, and… O God! O God!
      There were no waters there!
      There fell no kindly rain!
      The Sarsar from its womb went forth,
      The Icy Wind of Death.
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