sirocco
pronunciation
How to pronounce sirocco in British English:
UK [sɪˈrɒkəʊ]
How to pronounce sirocco in American English:
US [sɪˈrɑkoʊ]
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- Noun:
- a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
Word Origin
- sirocco
- sirocco: [17] The sirocco is a hot wind that blows into southern Europe from North Africa. Etymologically its name means ‘east’ wind. The term comes via French sirocco and Italian scirocco from Arabic sharūq ‘east’, hence ‘east wind’, a derivative of the verbal past form sharaqa ‘rose’ (the allusion being to the direction of the rising sun).
- sirocco (n.)
- "hot wind blowing from the Libyan deserts," 1610s, from Italian 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).
Example
- 1. Medicinal powder sirocco fan uses guard , the person that have demand , contact please .
- 2. After that , another sirocco comes over , foreign old lady is astonied , it is socialistic country as expected , develop amazingly quick .
- 3. Mr bacon and his team based the design of the rover on a coffee-powered volkswagen sirocco built for bbc 's science show bang goes the theory .