Sirocco
Sirocco ( ) or scirocco is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe, especially during the summer season.
Names
''Sirocco'' derives from '' šurūq'' (), verbal noun o ...
is a hot, fast Mediterranean wind.
Sirocco or similar spellings may also refer to:
Media and entertainment
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''Sirocco'' (album) by Australian Crawl
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''Sirocco'' (film), starring Humphrey Bogart
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''Sirocco'' (play), a play by Noël Coward
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Sirocco (Australian band)
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''Scirocco'' (film), directed by Aldo Lado
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''Siroco'' (album) by Paco de Lucia
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Paptimus Scirocco, a character from the anime series ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam''
* Scirocco, a character in the
''Silverwing'' series of books
* "Scirocco," a song by Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini on his album ''
Signora Bovary''
*The ''Scirocco'', a vessel of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy in ''
The Expanse
Expanse or The Expanse may refer to:
Media and entertainment
''The Expanse'' franchise
* ''The Expanse'' (novel series), a series of science fiction novels by James S. A. Corey
* ''The Expanse'' (TV series), a television adaptation of the ...
'' TV series.
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''Sirocco'' (game), a nautically-themed
multiplayer online battle arena developed by Lunchbox Entertainment Inc.
Cars and aircraft
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Aviasud Sirocco
The Aviasud Sirocco is a single-seat ultralight available in kit or fully assembled form and originally produced by Aviasud Engineering in 1983. It is of pod-and-boom design with tricycle undercarriage and pusher configuration. The fuselage is of ...
, a French ultra-light aircraft
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AC Sirocco nG, an updated model
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Scirocco-Powell
Scirocco was a Formula One
Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel single-seater formula Auto racing, racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA Formula One ...
, a former racing car constructor
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Volkswagen Scirocco
The Volkswagen Scirocco is a three-door, front-engine, front-wheel-drive, sport compact hatchback manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen in two generations from 1974 to 1992 and a third generation from 2008 until 2018. Production ended without a ...
, a car
* ''Sirocco'', the name of a Lackawanna Railroad train car involved in the
Rockport train wreck
Ships
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''Siroco'' (L 9012), a landing ship of the French Navy
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Spanish submarine ''Siroco'' (S-72), an Agosta 90B class submarine of the Spanish Navy
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French destroyer ''Siroco''
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HMAS ''Sirocco''
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USS ''Sirocco''
Other uses
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Mehmed Siroco (1525–1571), nickname of an Ottoman admiral
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Sirocco (parrot)
Sirocco (hatched 23 March 1997) is a kākāpō, a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot, and one of the remaining living individuals numbering only He achieved individual fame following an incident on the BBC television series '' Last Chance to S ...
, a famous kākāpō
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Sirocco (restaurant), a 63rd floor rooftop restaurant atop the State Tower in Bangkok, Thailand
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Shirocco
Shirocco (foaled 10 April 2001) is a German Thoroughbred racehorse. He was trained in his native Germany by Andreas Schütz up to the end of his three-year-old season before moving to French trainer André Fabre to race as a four and five ye ...
, a German thoroughbred racehorse
* Sirocco, codename for the
S1 Core
S1 Core (codename Sirocco) is an open source hardware microprocessor design developed by Simply RISC. Based on Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1, the S1 Core is licensed under the GNU General Public License, which is the license Sun chose for the Op ...
, an open source hardware microprocessor design
* Sirocco, a model of the
Nokia 8800
The Nokia 8800 (pronounced ''eighty-eight-hundred'') is a luxury mobile phone produced by Nokia, based on the Nokia Series 40 operating system. The 8800 features a stainless-steel housing with a scratch-resistant screen and has a weight of 134 Gra ...
mobile phone and revived more recently for the
Nokia 8 Sirocco
The Nokia 8 Sirocco (TA-1005) is a high-end smartphone by HMD Global, running the Android One variant of Android. It was introduced at MWC in February 2018, and named after the Nokia 8800 Sirocco. The successor of the Nokia 8 Sirocco is the ...
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Sirocco Works F.C., a football club in Northern Ireland
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Sirocco Works
Sirocco Works, officially Sirocco Engineering Works, was an engineering firm based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The site is located beside Short Strand, adjacent to Bridge End and River Lagan. It was founded by Samuel Cleland Davidson in 1881 unde ...
, engineering, ropeworks, ventilation company in Northern Ireland
* SIROCCO, the abbreviated name for the academic conference
* Sirocco, a type of forward curved centrifugal fan developed by
Samuel Cleland Davidson
Sir Samuel Cleland Davidson, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, KBE (18 November 1846 – 18 August 1921) was a British inventor and engineer. Through his career in the tea import business he invented and patented a number of ...
See also
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Ghibli (disambiguation)
Ghibli is the name of a hot desert wind also known as sirocco, sirocco, derived, through Italian, from Libyan Arabic .
Ghibli may refer to:
Vehicles
* Maserati Ghibli, a model of car made by Italian auto manufacturer Maserati
* Caproni Ca.309, C ...
, another name for the wind
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