Sarsar

English en Etymology From en ar صَرْصَر. en ar ص ر ص ر Noun A cold and piercing wind especially one in an Arabic-speaking area. He went, and darker grewThe 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. en 1878 Richard Francis Burton The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities: A Fortnight's Tour in North-western Arabia 127 the churlish, chiding wintry winds become "Sarsars" - cold and shuddering blasts. en 1889 Edward FitzGerald Euphranor; Six dramas from Dalderon; The Bird Parliament 478 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 / en 1889 Thomas Hempstead Poems of two worlds 94 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; en May 23 1908 The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art 661 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, en 2023-02-06 Jione Havea Troubling (Public) Theologies: Spaces, Bodies, Technologies Bloomsbury Publishing USA 9781978714410 [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. en Wind