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sci⋅roc⋅co

  [shuh-rok-oh, suh-]
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si⋅roc⋅co

  [suh-rok-oh]
–noun, plural -cos.
1. a hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affecting parts of southern Europe.
2. a warm, sultry south or southeast wind accompanied by rain, occurring in the same regions.
3. any hot, oppressive wind, esp. one in the warm sector of a cyclone.
Also, scirocco.

Origin:
1610–20; < It, var. of scirocco < Ar sharq east
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sci·roc·co   (shə-rŏk'ō, sə-)   
n.  Variant of sirocco.
si·roc·co   (sə-rŏk'ō)   
n.   pl. si·roc·cos also sci·roc·cos

  1. A hot humid south or southeast wind of southern Italy, Sicily, and the Mediterranean islands, originating in the Sahara Desert as a dry dusty wind but becoming moist as it passes over the Mediterranean.

  2. A hot or warm southerly wind, especially one moving toward a low barometric pressure center.


[Italian, from Arabic šarq, east; see śrq in Semitic roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

sirocco 
"hot wind blowing from the Libyan deserts," 1617, from It. sirocco, from vulgar Arabic shoruq "the east wind," from Arabic sharqi "eastern, east wind," from sharq "east," from sharaqa "to rise" (in reference to the sun).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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