Sarsar

plural Sarsars

1. A cold and piercing wind (especially one in an Arabic-speaking area).

   […] the churlish, chiding wintry winds become "Sarsars" - cold and shuddering blasts.

   1878, Richard Francis Burton, The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities: A Fortnight's Tour in North-western Arabia, page 127

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   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.

   1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC

   When up the Veil of that first Valley drew / From whose waste Wilderness of Darkness blew / A Sarsar, whether edged of Flames or Snows, / That through from Root to Tip their Feathers froze / […]

   1889, Edward FitzGerald, Euphranor; Six dramas from Dalderon; The Bird Parliament, page 478

   […] such as the hopeless weep, or say, / Smiling, The life to come / Is near and full and long; […] there great Ulysses smiles, / Ended is hale and moan. / A Sarsar blew; thy sumptuous revelries, / Feasts, music, gods are gone; […]

   1889, Thomas Hempstead, Poems of two worlds, page 94

   According to […] legend they were caught up out of Paradise by a Sarsar wind and whirled about, and then left to wander lonely for a hundred years before they met again, Adam blind and worn, […]

   1908 May 23, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 661

   [Quoting the Quran:] We sent upon them a Sarsar wind in days of calamity that We might give them a taste of disgracing torment in this present worldly life.

   2023 February 6, Jione Havea, Troubling (Public) Theologies: Spaces, Bodies, Technologies, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN