sharqi
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Arabic شَرْقِيّ (šarqiyy, “eastern”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: shar‧qi
Noun[edit]
sharqi (plural not attested)
- A hot desert wind in an Arabic country, especially in North Africa.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 47:
- Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
- 2005, Encyclopedia of World Climatology, page 749:
- The Ghibli is a hot wind in Libya, usually blowing from the Sahara; this wind in Morocco is called the Chergui.
- 2010, April Fast, Iraq: The Land, third edition, p. 15:
- The sharqi is a wind from the south and southeast that blows in early summer and early winter.
- 2012, Morocco Baedecker Guide, page 24:
- The harmattan, which is also called sharqi in Morocco, is a hot wind that blows out of the interior of the Sahara.
Albanian[edit]
Noun[edit]
sharqi m (plural sharqinj, definite sharqiri, definite plural sharqinjtë)
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