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sharq
Arabic · medieval
"east"
meaning "east", describing the direction of the desert wind
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scirocco
Italian · medieval
"a hot desert wind"
named the hot wind blowing from North Africa
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sirocco
English · 1600s
"a hot wind from the Sahara reaching Southern Europe"
adopted directly from Italian
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