Sarsar
Sarsar noun: a cold and piercing wind (especially one in an Arabic-speaking area).
Noun
Sarsar (plural Sarsars)
- 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.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... - […] 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
- He went, and darker grew
Examples of Sarsar in a sentence
- 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:
- 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:
Forms of Sarsar
| plural | Sarsars |
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Origin of Sarsar
From Arabic صَرْصَر (ṣarṣar).
Questions about Sarsar
- What does Sarsar mean?
- Sarsar means a cold and piercing wind (especially one in an Arabic-speaking area).
- How do you use Sarsar in a sentence?
- 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 / […]
- What part of speech is Sarsar?
- Sarsar is a noun.
- What is the plural of Sarsar?
- The plural of Sarsar is Sarsars.
Words near Sarsar in the dictionary
Source and license
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