limbat/ˈlɪmbæt/EtymologyFrom French limbat, a rebracketing of l’imbat, from Ottoman Turkish امبات (imbat, “sea breeze”). Doublet of imbat.nounA periodic cooling wind in Cyprus, blowing from the northwest.“The heats increase as the summer advances, and would be altogether intolerable, if a cooling wind called limbat did not arise.”