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語源

From Arabic صَرْصَر (ṣarṣar).

名詞

Sarsar (plural Sarsars)

1. A cold and piercing wind (especially one in an Arabic-speaking area).
   • 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 Cottle, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1878, Richard Francis Burton, The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities: A Fortnight's Tour in North-western Arabia, page 127:

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

   • 1889, Edward FitzGerald, Euphranor; Six dramas from Dalderon; The Bird Parliament, page 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 / […]

   • 1889, Thomas Hempstead, Poems of two worlds, page 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; […]

   • 1908 May 23, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 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, […]

   • 2023 February 6, Jione Havea, Troubling (Public) Theologies: Spaces, Bodies, Technologies, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

     [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.