sarsar

Etymology

From Arabic صَرْصَر (ṣarṣar).

noun

  1. 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.”