The story
- Arabic · derived fromقِبْلِيّ“coming from the qibla”
- Italian · borrowed fromghibli
- English todayghibli
From Italian ghibli, from the Libyan Arabic form of Standard Arabic قِبْلِيّ (qibliyy, “coming from the qibla”), pronounced with an initial [ɡ] in Libyan Arabic. Distant doublet of cabal.
Words from the same roots
Italianghibli all →
Ghiblify
Arabicقِبْلِيّ all →
qibli
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.