sirocco


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sirocco /sɪˈrɒkəʊ/ (also scirocco)
noun (pl. siroccos) a hot wind blowing from North Africa across the Mediterranean to southern Europe.
– origin C17: via Fr. from Ital. scirocco, based on Sp. Arab. Šalūḳ ‘east wind’.
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