sarsar

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

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

From Arabic صَرْصَر (ṣarṣar).

Sarsars (plural)